El Paraguay en Marcha

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...

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A lo largo de 50 años labarriada se ha constituidoen una modalidad de accesoal suelo y a la viviendapara quienes por alguna uotra razón se han encontradoexcluidos de losmercados convencionales.Vistas en la historiareciente de la ciudad deLima, las barriadas no sonsolamente esteras ni invasiones.Se han convertidoen un elemento constitutivode la estructura mismade la ciudad, tanto ensus aspectos físicos comoculturales.El libro que presentamoscumple dos objetivosigualmente importantes.Por un lado describe laevolución de las barriadasde la ciudad de Lima hastanuestros días, y por otroanaliza ...