Friar Bringas Reports to the King

Con ocasión del cincuentenario de la muerte de Hugo Obermaier (Ratisbona, 1877 - Friburgo, 1946) la Universidad de Cantabria, La Fundación Marcelino Botín y el Institute for Prehistoric Investigations han decidido editar un volumen homenaje que evidencie la trayectoria y la vigencia de su aportación científica. Aportación que, en su mayor parte, se sintetiza en su obra El hombre fósil. Original- mente publicada en España por la Comisión de investigaciones Paleontológicas y Prehistóricas, donde conoció sendas ediciones en 1916 y 1925, y posteriormente traducida a varios idiomas,...

El libro reúne un total de 32 textos de exposiciones realizadas por famosos teóricos y críticos del arte contemporáneo internacional, en el período 1980-1995. Incluye además un prólogo general y datos biográficos de los autores.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...