La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia

Los zapotecas vivieron, prosperaron y se convirtieron en una civilización de interés para los conquistadores. Siendo una de las civilizaciones más grandes de su tiempo en Mesoamérica, ayudaron a construir y darle forma al mundo con el que se encontraron los conquistadores a su llegada.

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...

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...

El enfoque de sistemas surgio como un intento de superar la ciencia reduccionista que se habia mostrado incapaz de comprender los complejos fenomenos sociales y aun los biologicos y psicologicos. Francisco R. Sagasti ha sido uno de los impulsores de esta relativamente nueva tendencia del pensamiento en America Latina y en este libro examina la aplicacion que se dio, desde 1970, al enfoque de sistemas que comprende la conceptualizacion, la formulacion y la puesta en practica de politicas para el desarrollo cientifico y tecnologico en paises latinoamericanos.