Vecinos de sangre

With Lead in the Wings recreates one of the greatest love stories of the Civil War: the one led by the American pilot Harold E. Dahl, who was hired as a mercenary by the Republic, and vaudeville singer Edith Rogers, with whom he had just married weeks before arriving in Spain.

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Brujas, Francfort, Génova, Roma o París son tan representativas de la Edad Media como el feudalismo, el vasallaje y las expediciones de los cruzados. En el momento de su configuración definitiva, el mapa de las ciudades de Europa coincide con el de los centros de cultura y los lugares donde se crea la riqueza. La civilización europea es ya realmente urbana. En este libro, Thierry Dutour nos acerca al discurso de los hombres y las mujeres que poblaron aquellas ciudades. Muestra cómo el tiempo de las ciudades episcopales, hasta el siglo IX, es muy distinto del de los siglos posteriores....

Después de su gran esplendor, Europa afronta hoy una crisis profunda y de difícil resolución. Grecia, España, Italia, entre otros, asisten a feroces tasas de desocupación y a una importante recesión en sus economías. Doménico Mantuano hurga los cambios de las políticas económicas surgidas tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, analiza la subordinación europea a los dictados del monetarismo y a los centros de especulación financiera, y desnuda el verdadero esqueleto por el cual el continente ha pasado de príncipe a mendigo.

When looking at historical photographs of Guadalupe residents, one sees the faces that represent the area s unique and diverse past. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Chumash and mapped by Spanish explorers, Guadalupe was first named in the 1840s Mexican land grant honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the title given to the Virgin Mary. Through the years, waves of immigrants made their way to Guadalupe to take advantage of the fertile soil and unique geographic features, the most prominent of which are the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, which contain some of the tallest sand dunes on Earth and have...