Guillermo Buitrago: Precursor de la música vallenata

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Samuel de Champlain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Conocer a Samuel de Champlain, navegante que recibe el encargo de desarrollar los asentamientos de Francia en el Nuevo Continente, algo a lo que dedica toda su vida • Analizar la importancia comercial y estratégica de estos viajes, cuya función es descubrir grandes riquezas en los territorios recién conquistados y encontrar rutas seguras hacia China • Descubrir las expediciones de Samuel ...

The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more land and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of...

Una de las figuras de mayor peso intelectual en la econom a y la pol tica de Am rica Latina ha sido la de Ra l Prebisch. la caracter stica que mejor lo define es el compromiso y la vocaci n de servicio Para con un ideal de integraci n latinoamericana, integraci n que parte de una ideolog a progresista y de un esp ritu de cambio, modernidad y apertura.

The definitive biography of Spain's enigmatic king, a riveting work of late-twentieth-century history. Paul Preston, the author of the definitive biography Franco, explores the political and personal mysteries of the Spanish monarch's life in Juan Carlos, a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisite detail. Handed over to the Franco regime as a young boy, Juan Carlos was raised according to authoritarian traditions designed to make him a cornerstone of the dictatorship. How then did he later emerge as an emphatic defender of the democracy that began to form after Franco's death? In his...