El largo siglo XX

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Nueva y original interpretación de la historia del mundo grecorromano en la Antigüedad. Al contrario que el común de los trabajos que existen en el mercado, Paul Veyne –investigador de prestigio internacional– relata y analiza el periodo desde un punto de vista unitario y conjunto, sin separar el mundo romano y el griego, dotándolo de coherencia argumental.

Este libro propone una lectura pausada y distanciada de lo moro en su pasado histórico y en el devenir mediterráneo, así como inquiere en las lógicas de la alteridad, tantas veces invocadas y escasamente analizadas con justeza fenomenológica y antropológica. Una obra sumamente oportuna cuyo contenido se muestra comprometido con la actualidad. [Texto de la editorial].

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...