La resistencia de los nativos americanos (Native American Resistance)

Manifest Destiny the name given in the 1840s to a belief that the coast-to-coast expansion of the United States was both inevitable and justified, regardless of the means. Standing in the way were not only the native populations, but also the descendants of Spanish settlers who had lived in the Southwest for centuries. The racist belief that white men rightfully should expand their institutions into the area brought the United States into conflict with Mexico. War was declared in 1846, and by the time the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, ending the war, the US had gained...

Durante décadas, los toques y chirridos de la guitarra eléctrica han sido algunos de los sonidos que definen la música popular. Pero tuvo que pasar más de un siglo de esfuerzo e innovación antes de que este instrumento fuera eléctrico. For decades, the blasts and howls of the electric guitar have been some of the defining sounds of popular music. But more than a century of effort and innovation had to happen before this instrument went electric. Learn about the master craftspeople who created the guitar as we know it, the inventors who figured out how to send guitar notes through...

With striking full-color photos and minimal text, in Spanish, this series immediately involves young readers as they discover intriguing facts about the world around them.

Muchos de los conflictos que se presentan actualmente a propósito de actividades mineras, petroleras e incluso de conservación se producen por los efectos sociales y culturales, siempre complejos y muchas veces inesperados, de estas iniciativas de desarrollo.

«El erudito Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), preboste del Eton College, arqueólogo de renombre y reconocida autoridad en manuscritos medievales e historia de las catedrales, siguiendo su vieja afición a contar relatos de fantasmas durante las Navidades, se ha convertido poco a poco en un cultivador de primera fila de la literatura espectral, y ha llegado a servir de modelo a una larga serie de discípulos». Así presenta otro genio del terror, H.P. Lovecraft, al indiscutible maestro del relato de fantasmas victoriano M.R. James. Para James, el relato de fantasmas era todo un arte y...