Los viajes de sol y luna

Ttulo publicado por Casa de Estudios del Socialismo en coedicin con Fondo de Cultura Econmica. Se trata de un libro de artculos compilados a partir del Seminario Internacional sobre la Corrupcin realizado a fines del 2004 con la participacin de Deborah Poole, antroploga de la Universidad de Johns Hopkins, socilogo Miguel Angel Mateo de la Universidad de Valencia, Espaa; Gran Therborn, socilogo poltico de la Universidad de Upsala, Suecia; Fidel Aroche de la Facultad de Economa de la UNAM; Laura Benetti, sicoanalista argentina radicada en Lima; Gisela Cnepa, antroploga visual de la Pontificia...

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

Este libro sigue las huellas de los dos hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en la Nueva Granada y actual Colombia, para mostrar los caminos históricos de cooperación e intercambio científico entre Alemania y Colombia. Desde el famoso viaje de Alexander von Humboldt a América y su encuentro con José Celestino Mutis y otros reconocidos investigadores del Nuevo Mundo en Santa Fe de Bogotá en el año 1801, la cooperación científica entre Alemania y Colombia se ha desarrollado en un amplio panorama de encuentros, relaciones, correspondencias e intercambios. Por otro lado, es menos...

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