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Michael D. Coe, uno de los mas importantes mayologos de la actualidad, relata en este libro la historia de lo que el considera "una de las aventuras intelectuales mas interesantes de nuestro tiempo": una historia polemica, de enfrentamientos intelectuales entre los distintos expertos que, si bien con ideas distintas, a veces directamente opuestas, participaron en la ardua labor del desciframiento de los glifos mayas. Knorosov, Thompson y Proskouriakoff, protagonistas de esta aventura, aparecen retratados finamente por Coe en este libro.

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

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Religión y política en Europa: de la Revolución Francesa a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Un revelador libro del aclamado autor de El Tercer Reich. En las últimas décadas, Europa se está transformando en una sociedad posreligiosa que ha llegado a excluir de su futura constitución las referencias al papel del cristianismo en la historia del continente. Paradójicamente, este fenómeno va acompañado de llamadas a una renovada «religión política» basada en los valores de la democracia liberal para mantener unidas nuestras diversas sociedades en una época de amenazas externas...