Introducción a la cultura japonesa

This book captures the most stunning studies, the difficulties, the dangers, and the experiences during a 10-year period of travel and expeditions. Author Juan Jesus Vallejo journeys across five continents, giving us a glimpse into the pyramids in Peru that are older than the Egyptian pyramids; the first human temples with more than 10,000 years of history, discovered in the dusty fields of Kurdistan; and the largest and most puzzling painted rocks on the planet, in nearly unexplored areas of the Sahara. An endless stream of riddles, anecdotes, and facts, this book demonstrates that the world ...

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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...

De todas las rapiñas de la historia, la más escandalosa es la del Antiguo Egipto, un retablo histórico de codicia, vanidad y arqueólogos enfebrecidos. A los largo de los siglos tuvieron que ver con ella los tebanos, desvalijadores de tumbas; los romanos, ladrones de obeliscos; los cristianos coptos, decididos a borrar el pasado hereje; los traficantes de momias; los anticuarios; los grandes museos europeos; un actor circense que se hizo con más antigüedades que los ejércitos de Napoleón juntos; cónsules sagaces; bajaes despiadados o arqueólogos como Flinders Petrie, que cambió el...