Crónicas de Banqueta "La Revista"

Ya está aquí la Edición de Aniversario de Crónicas de Banqueta "La Revista", correspondiente al mes de Junio 2023. Disfrútala.

Este libro es el primer intento de dar una visión global de la ciencia en el mundo antiguo, de escribir una historia de la ciencia medieval en su conjunto, y de presentar una exposición detallada y unificada del asunto en un único volumen. En él, David C. Lindberg narra con energía el desarrollo de las ideas prácticas e instituciones científicas a las que dio lugar los albores del pensamiento humano, desde la filosofía presocrática griega hasta el escolasticismo medieval. Lindberg revisa los temas más importantes de la historia de la ciencia antigua y medieval relativos a materias...

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...