Cuitláhuac: señor de la casa de los dardos

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...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

Dos de las voces más autorizadas denuncian la situación de Palestina. El asedio que sufren los palestinos de Gaza desde que en el invierno de 2008 un ataque militar israelí causó 1.400 muertos e impuso un duro bloqueo ha situado a la Franja en el centro del debate sobre un conflicto que dura ya más de 60 años. Partiendo de esta catástrofe política y humanitaria, el intelectual judío-estadounidense Noam Chomsky y el historiador israelí Ilan Pappé ofrecen un lúcido análisis de los orígenes y el futuro de la larga ocupación de Palestina. Cada vez son más los observadores...

This is the second of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford’s scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues. Volume two, first published in 1963, includes the papers published by Rutherford when professor of Physics at Manchester, 1907 to 1919. While the work of his laboratory ranged over the whole field of radioactivity, he himself devoted much effort to questions concerning the nature and properties of the α particle....