La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia

Libro azul de Colombia. Blue book of Colombia. Bosquejos biograficos de los personajes mas eminentes. Biographical sketches of the most prominent personages. Historia condensada de la republica. Abridged history of the republic. Articulos especiales sobre el Comercio, Agricultura y Riqueza Mineral, basados en las Estadisticas Oficiales. Special articles relative to Commerce, Agriculture and Mineral Wealth, based on Official Statistics.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Una colección única que cuenta nuestro largo siglo XX en 7 libros para 7 fechas clave. No todos los días son iguales. Solemos abordar la historia a partir de arcos de tiempo dilatados. Pero ¿qué sucedería si, por una vez, centráramos la atención en los instantes concretos que más han marcado nuestro pasado colectivo? Los protagonistas, sus acciones, sus emociones, sus deseos, sus dudas y sus errores pasan a ocupar el centro del relato, irrumpen con la fuerza de la imprevisibilidad, y los revivimos como si fuera la primera vez. En esta novedosa colección, algunos de los mejores...

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...