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This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

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...

Una iluminadora reflexión sobre el Mediterráneo como escenario de la historia y como idea del mundo. El Mediterráneo es un mar aparentemente plácido sobre el que a menudo se ciernen negros nubarrones, un lugar de encuentro y a la vez de conflicto, cuna de los mitos clásicos y de las grandes religiones monoteístas, escenario de algunas de las más deslumbrantes creaciones de la humanidad y campo de batalla de terribles guerras. Con extraordinaria amenidad, José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec construye un elegante retrato del mundo mediterráneo desde la Antigüedad clásica hasta nuestros días...

This book is a Spanish translation of the proceedings of a conference held in 1986. Archaeologists and conservators from around the world met in Mexico City to examine the unique problems associated with in situ archaeological conservation. The papers presented focus on a wide variety of materials (including adobe, wood, ceramics, textiles, painting, skin, and bone) and sites as diverse as Algeria and the Arctic. Of special note are case studies of three spectacular sites in Mexico: Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, and Cacaxtla.