La técnica en el mundo antiguo

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La colección "Enigmas de las Américas" analiza expediciones de siglos pasados que buscaron descifrar enigmas de la geografía del continente americano. En cada libro, especialistas internacionales escriben artículos donde analizan, desde distintas perspectivas y diversos momentos, el impacto de estas expediciones en la construcción de imaginarios y en la cartografía, es decir, en aquellos dispositivos visuales conocidos como mapas. El presente libro se enfoca en el esfuerzo por descifrar el enigma del paso interoceánico en diversos puntos de la geografía americana. De acuerdo con el...

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...

Visión crítica y documentada de las repercusiones que, para la Iglesia y la sociedad, ha tenido la canonización de José María Escrivá de Balaguer, fundador del Opus Dei.