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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.

Tiempo transcurrido es una crónica de por 18 años de vida mexicana. El libro empieza con un momento clave de la historia mexicana reciente, el movimiento estudiantil del 68, y se detiene antes de que suceda el terremoto de 1985. Juan Villoro retrata una época con innegable fidelidad al mismo tiempo que crea situaciones ficticias.

Recent advancements in science have spurred new hypotheses for ancient mysteries that have baffled mankind for centuries, and this book explores those enigmas and their new explanations. Shedding light on questions such as Was Tutankhamen’s tomb guarded by a curse? and Was Stonehenge a prehistoric astronomical observatory?, this guide discusses ancient civilizations, ruins, and legends—including Atlantis, the curse of the pharaohs, and the hidden Mayan cities—and proposes whether they are truth or myth. Los recientes adelantos de la ciencia han permitido que surjan nuevas hipótesis...

Fernando del Paso tells his work experience as a translator, radio announcer and producer of radio shows of the Latin-American service of the BBC before and after the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina for the Falkland Islands. It reflexs upon the posture taken from both countries in front of the international community for the rightful sovereignty of the islands and the censorship measures about the subject in the media.

A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX empiezan a conjugarse los factores que desencadenarán un agitado proceso de cambios y revoluciones en un viejo y enorme país de tradición milenaria, aislado del exterior, regido por una monarquía imperial inoperante sometida al creciente influjo colonial europeo. Los textos seleccionados por Julia Morena abarcan la historia última de China: desde el paso de la monarquía a la república en 1911, la constitución de la República Popular en 1949, que con la muerte de Mao en 1976 inicia un nuevo período, hasta los sucesos de Tien Anmen en 1989...