La Arqueología negada del nuevo mundo

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

Graham Greene, uno de los novelistas más importantes en lengua inglesa, celebró su 80 aniversario con la publicación de este libro: un relato vivo, fuerte y chispeante sobre su amistad con Omar Torrijos, presidente de Panamá de 1968 a 1981, fallecido en un extraño accidente de aviación. «En agosto de 1981 tenía preparada la maleta para mi quinta visita a Panamá cuando me enteré por teléfono de la muerte del general Omar Torrijos Herrera, mi amigo y anfitrión. En ese momento se me ocurrió escribir una especie de pequeño homenaje a un político inspirador en un período vital de...

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

Este libro es un intento de reconstruir y explicar los procesos que mediaron entre aquella gran expectativa económica de comienzos del siglo XVI, los logros de la Argentina de comienzos del siglo XX y su crisis posterior.