Desertores/ Deserters

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.

Este libro gira en torno al origen y desarrollo de la noción de guerra santa en la Edad Media peninsular. Se propone identificar un significativo elenco de testimonios terminológicos e iconográficos, relativos al concepto o realidad de la categoría «guerra santa», en fuentes de muy diversa naturaleza. Esos testimonios, debidamente contextualizados, ayudan a profundizar en un tema todavía pendiente de mayor seguimiento conceptual y metodológico. Solo a partir de esta identificación de recursos instrumentales es posible avanzar en el análisis necesariamente comparativo, diferenciado...

Durante los años treinta y cuarenta, la Alemania nazi protagonizó un despegue fulgurante en las ciencias y las tecnologías que transformó espectacularmente el desarrollo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, a la postre, condujo a la fabricación de las armas de destrucción masiva y sus elementos de transporte, los misiles balísticos. John Cornwell nos narra, además de un período trascendental de la historia contemporánea, la actividad de los científicos alemanes, desde el ascenso de Hitler al poder en 1933 hasta su derrota en 1945. Con ello nos permite conocer el comportamiento de los...

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As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...