La cara oculta de China

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Antonio Malalana Ureña, Catedrático de Biblioteconomía y Documentación de la Facultad de Humanidades y CC. de la Comunicación de la Universidad CEU San Pablo. Imparte docencia en materias relacionadas con la Documentación y con los Métodos de Investigación, también con la Historia de España. Como investigador comparte dos ámbitos de estudio, España durante la Edad Media, fundamentalmente en los espacios geográficos de Madrid y Toledo. En los últimos años forma parte del equipo de investigación que trabaja en los yacimientos arqueológicos de Los Hitos y San Pedro de la Mata...

In 1565, Pedro Menendez De Aviles sailed to Florida and fulfilled his duty to Phillip II by recapturing Frances's primary settlement, Fort Caroline, and executing the Fort's commander, Jean Ribault, along with his men. This work was based on the study of the key chroniclers and their writings.

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