Feria de Ganados & Planta de Beneficio de Medellín

¿Por qué Europa se hizo dueña del mundo durante los cuatro siglos posteriores al Renacimiento? ¿Por qué no lo hizo el mundo oriental, muy superior en conocimientos científicos durante la Edad Media? Los relojes fueron instrumentos esenciales de la revolución tecnológica porque dotaron a los europeos de un nuevo sentido del tiempo y de un instrumento de gestión imprescindible.

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

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Inédito hasta hoy para los lectores españoles, Una mujer en la guerra de España es, sin embargo, uno de los testimonios personales más valiosos sobre la Sublevación del 36, la guerra y los desmanes de la victoria, y ello por varias razones: su autora, Carlota O’Neill nos sumerge, de la mano de su propia experiencia e infortunio, en el tenebroso mundo carcelario femenino del franquismo, muy poco conocido hasta hoy, y lo hace con una solvencia literaria y periodística admirables; su marido, Virgilio Leret, capitán de Aviación de la República e inventor del turborreactor, protagoniza, ...