Galileo en Roma

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...

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En esta obra los autores, profesores universitarios de reconocido prestigio académico e investigador, nos ofrecen una original visión del desarrollo de la prehistoria. El discurso que se ha escogido huye de tecnicismos eruditos y de listas de fases y de culturas difíciles de memorizar y de dudoso interés para el público al que va destinado el libro. Se ha buscado, por el contrario, incidir en los procesos que han llevado al ser humano a ser lo que es, desde su aparición sobre la faz de la Tierra hasta la entrada en época histórica. Podremos seguir las adaptaciones físicas que guiaron ...

Manual de historia que presenta de manera clara, sencilla y amena a los 101 villanos más importantes de la historia de México, verdaderos truhanes de nuestro pasado histórico y reciente. Los 101 villanos en la historia de México han sido colocados en el orden cronológico de los hechos, lo que permite recorrer la historia de México desde la época prehispánica hasta finales de la década de los cuarenta, transitando del lado en el que circulan los traidores, los ambiciosos, los desleales, los corruptos, los abusivos, los dictadores, los tibios, los apáticos, los cobardes, los bandidos...