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Who has not heard of Cuba? Its beaches, music, food, the beautiful women... and even Fidel Castro? But how many of you know about the misery and repression in which the people of Cuba live? How far does the violation of the civil rights of the people of Cuba go? It's hard to put so many bad things together in a small book. I'll show you some of the most relevant and the simplest things you never think about because you always had it when you need it and when you want it.

Publicado pela primeira vez em 1968, é um clássico e esclarecedor estudo sobre a história da política contemporânea. Escrito por Peter Calvocoressi, uma figura de destaque mundial no campo das relações internacionais, participante do Julgamento de Nuremberg e professor de Relações Internacionais na Universidade de Sussex, Grã-Bretanha, este livro é essencial para a formação de historiadores, cientistas políticos, sociólogos, jornalistas e leitores em geral. Aclamado pelo The Sunday Times pelo seu rigor e pela riqueza magistral do seu conteúdo, apresenta um panorama geral e...

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Novela basada en un caso real ocurrido en 1995, en el Golfo de México. Concretamente en las cercanías de Ciudad del Carmen. El huracán llamado Roxana azotó las plataformas marinas de Petróleos Mexicanos. Un homenaje a aquellos hombres que, desgraciadamente, no sobrevivieron a ese fenómeno meteorológico. Y para los sobrevivientes una felicitación, porque tuvieron la dicha o desdicha de vivir una experiencia inolvidable a mar abierto.