El séptimo arte como elemento didáctico innovador para su puesta en práctica en los estudios universitarios

Throughout the decades following the death of Mariano Jose de Larra, scholars have been intrigued by the impact that both the man and his writings have had on generation after generation of Spanish and Latin American writers. This study looks at the genesis of Larra's genius by carefully tabulating and identifying his sources in literature and history. This important resource book will help Larra scholars understand more completely the intricate and complex system of images, allusions and references "Figaro" used to compose his more than 250 newspaper articles. More importantly, the work...

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...

Trayectoria y obra de una figura ineludible y clave en el desenvolvimiento de la cultura en México, Mario Vázquez.

La tesis de este libro es que únicamente la construcción de un Estado laico, democrático y multicultural para palestinos e israelíes puede resolver civilizadamente el enconado conflicto que enfrenta a estos pueblos y propiciar un camino de solución a ambas comunidades nacionales que permita eludir la destrucción de una o de ambas o incluso una crisis regional de grandes proporciones. La solución de un Estado único defendida en los albores de la constitución del Estado de Israel por Albert Einstein, Judah Magnes, Hanna Arendt o Martín Buber, y por la OLP entre finales y mediados de...