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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.

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

A fines del siglo XIX, el inglés Francis Galton acuñó el término eugenesia (del griego “buen nacer”) para designar el campo de conocimiento interesado en el estudio de las leyes de la herencia humana y de los métodos para mejorar la descendencia. Galton concibió la eugenesia como el camino para garantizar la selección artificial de rasgos psicofísicos deseables en los seres humanos con el fin de estimular la reproducción de personas sanas física y mentalmente, y limitar la de aquéllas consideradas de calidad “inferior”. Este libro analiza los fundamentos “científicos”...

El libro que tiene el lector en sus manos ha sido concebido con un doble propósito. Por una parte, responder a una pregunta formulada habitualmente: ¿qué factores explican la disimilitud de trayectorias históricas entre China y Rusia durante el comunismo y la salida de este? Por otra, explicar en qué consistieron los sistemas comunistas, es decir, desentrañar las características centrales que comportaron aquellos Estados que a lo largo del siglo xx se autodenominaron comunistas. El elemento que vincula estos dos objetivos es la tesis de que una adecuada comprensión de los elementos...

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