La batalla del Ebro

Periodistas, ladrones y policías circulan por esta novela, sin pausa pero con orden, junto a otros problemas de la vida cotidiana: media docena de muertos, estafas millonarias, voladuras sorprendentes... Y la víctima es siempre la misma: el ingenioso Gálvez, periodista que recibe palizas de mafiosos y estafadores...

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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...

"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...

Las formas en que se representó la barbarie en el mundo occidental, entre la caída de Constantinopla y la Ilustración constituyen la exploración central de este libro. Con horizontes cronológicos y espaciales amplios, la obra analiza las formas en que textos e imágenes utilizaron la barbarie para dar cuenta de experiencias diversas: el conocimiento de pueblos otros, vecinos y distantes, el acercamiento a costumbres ajenas y la experiencia de violencias consideradas radicales, pero también la simplicidad, la inteligencia, el coraje y la solidaridad. Lejos de sugerir que la descripción...