Las sombras de la transición

Este libro presenta todo desarrollo de la guerra, el uso de armas, la tecnología militar y su evolución táctica y estratégica desde la Prehistoria hasta el siglo XV. Tomando como punto de partida el enfrentamiento entre grupos de homínidos o los rastros de combates hallados en las pinturas rupestres, se analiza la evolución de los ejércitos y el desarrollo social desde la perspectiva bélica hasta llegar al uso de las primeras armas de fuego.

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Tratado breve sobre las características más distintivas de la civilización romana desde la fundación de Roma hasta su decadencia como imperio. Se analizan costumbres, política, filosofía, actitudes religiosas y el derecho positivo que legaron los romanos al mundo.

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...