Historia de Rusia

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

El Libro Egipcio de los Muertos o Libro del Gran Despertar es, incuestionablemente, uno de los libros más influyentes de la historia. en esta traducción del doctor E. Wallis Budge, los geroglíficos egipcios han sido reproducidos fielmente y se incluye una

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

Este trabajo tiene como fin mostrar la modernización de uno de los servicios públicos más importantes administrados por el Municipio de Medellín durante el siglo XX: el matadero municipal. En él, se muestra la importancia fiscal de esta empresa pública y su valor como principal abastecedor de productos cárnicos en Medellín. A través del crecimiento tanto espacial como demográfico de la ciudad, el matadero no permaneció ajeno a estas dinámicas y de manera indirecta permite ver la implementación de nuevos modelos de organización urbana y reglamentación sanitaria.