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En las sociedades occidentales de nuestro tiempo, principios de convivencia democrática que parecían consolidados se tambalean bajo la seducción de líderes populistas que responden al malestar social obteniendo éxitos políticos inesperados. Más allá de las dimensiones globales del populismo, Nostalgia comunitaria y utopía autoritaria presenta una revisión crítica de varias experiencias latinoamericanas con una mirada retrospectiva sobre el populismo en Rusia y Estados Unidos en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, y ofrece un acercamiento al universo intelectual que ha acompañado y...

Esta antologia poetica se centra tematicamente en la celebracion de la festividad del Corpus Christi en la ciudad de Toledo. Ya que el celebre rito ha inspirado una impresionante cantidad de poesia a lo largo de las edades, este volumen reune textos dispersos que abarcan mas de un milenio. Los versos de dicho subgenero compuestos en los siglos XVI y XVII tienden a ser devotos, teologicos o misticos. En tiempos mas recientes, la poesia -corpuscristica-, sin abandonar el matiz religioso, ha llegado a ser una celebracion en el inigualable festival eucaristico. Los autores representados en la...

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An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...