Prodigiosas historias de la mitología griega

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...

Este libro analiza la Revolución rusa, el acontecimiento más trascendental del siglo XX, y presenta sus consecuencias -políticas, sociales y culturales-, la evolución del mundo surgido de ella y el mito y la memoria de la revolución en la actualidad.

Durante los años treinta y cuarenta, la Alemania nazi protagonizó un despegue fulgurante en las ciencias y las tecnologías que transformó espectacularmente el desarrollo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, a la postre, condujo a la fabricación de las armas de destrucción masiva y sus elementos de transporte, los misiles balísticos. John Cornwell nos narra, además de un período trascendental de la historia contemporánea, la actividad de los científicos alemanes, desde el ascenso de Hitler al poder en 1933 hasta su derrota en 1945. Con ello nos permite conocer el comportamiento de los...

American Indian educator and political philosopher Jack Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anti-civilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has continued to inspire America's most influential activists for decades. Now available for the first time in a Spanish translation, this radical critique of the modern 'civilized" lifestyle is more vital than ever before. El libro del pensador nativo americano Jack Forbes, Colon y otros caníbales, era uno de...