La épica del desencanto

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Summary & Analysis Preview: Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home. The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the eighteenth century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged war against the settlers. Those tribes were particularly egalitarian in nature, and...

La continuidad historiográfica de esta obra se justifica en la propia dinámica de los conflictos sociales de la minera y la actividad portuaria en la provincia de Huelva du-rante el primer cuarto del siglo XX, y queda marcada por el mismo desarrollo de la actividad sindical y la gestión portuaria y minera alrededor de esta conflictividad. No obstante, el curso de la Guerra Europea, y la dinámica socio-política asociada a ella, darán lugar a determinados sucesos con su diversidad estructural en el ámbito español con su correlato en Huelva: problema de las subsistencias, Huelga de...

After the success of Miss Narco, Javier Valdez presents a new work on Mexico s drug crisis. This time, the leading characters are young men and women at that crucial age in their personal development who, in one way or another, come across the world of drug trafficking. Some escape its clutches while others fall in its trap, but their lives are irrevocably changed. The author collects the most intense, moving and surprising accounts that mark Mexicos social and political reality today. Spanish Description: Tras el exito de Miss Narco, Javier Valdez entrega una nueva obra acerca del...