El Puente Pegasus

Una de las máximas preocupaciones de la sociedad occidental es la amenaza de un terrorismo cuyo principal objetivo es que la gente se sienta vulnerable. CHARLES TOWNSHEND desmenuza este fenómeno, ambiguo en su definición, alejándose de quienes consideran que el terrorismo no tiene causas, sólo consecuencias, y de que realizar un análisis del mismo supone comprensión o incluso compasión hacia los terroristas. TERRORISMO. UNA BREVE INTRODUCCIÓN desarrolla el tema desde la aparición del término en la época del Terror francesa, pasando por los atentados anarquistas que aplicaban «la...

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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...

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...