Cultura E Identidad Nacional

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Todo lo que debe saber sobre el Antiguo Egipto es una apuesta segura para todo el que quiera comenzar a comprender aquel antiguo imperio o para la persona que desee afianzar conocimientos ya pretéritos y dejarse engatusar por una cultura milenaria que todavía hoy en día esta en vigencia, por muchos siglos que hayan pasado.

En los últimos años se ha intensificado el estudio de la Historia de la Ciencia, a la vez como disciplina histórica profesional y como objeto de interés para el público en general. Esta obra ha marcado un hito en la hitoriografía contemporánea al mostrar de forma irrebatible la continuidad esencial de la tradición científica occidental desde la época griega hasta nuestros días. Este primer volumen describe el largo proceso de la ciencia en la Edad Media que culmina en el gran edificio conceptual del trescientos.