José Revueltas y Roberto Bolaño

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

Siguiendo el hilo conductor del proceso de secularización, y desde una visión cristiana del hombre y de la historia, el autor expone las claves de la época moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII), para analizar a continuación las principales ideologías contemporáneas -liberalismo, nacionalismo, marxismo, cientificismo- y subrayar su papel de religiones sustitutivas. La tercera parte trata la crisis de la cultura de la Modernidad en el siglo XX, examinando con detalle el nihilismo, la sociedad permisiva y los movimientos culturales de mayor actualidad: feminismo, ecologismo, nuevos movimientos...

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...

El libro La otra cara de la Luna forma parte de un amplio proyecto concebido por su autor, el Dr. Álvaro Uribe Rueda, y que precede a un texto anterior titulado Bizancio, el dique iluminado, que reflexiona acerca de la concepción mística del universalismo, las raíces judías y helénicas, y la herencia cristiana.