Insurgentes

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

“Each war entails the destruction of the human soul” (Henry Miller). Humanity should not lose its memory, even if some may try to conceal it. From the hindsight afforded by the passing of 75 years from the events narrated, with freedom of thought and a totally independent standpoint, Pacific Media have undertaken an arduous research which has resulted in the series: “The Finest Hours of WWII". From the atrocious moment in which Hitler ordered the invasion of Polish territory to the day in which Emperor Hirohito “had to accept the unacceptable”, all is encompassed in this book over...

Benjamin Stora, una autoridad de la historia de la Guerra de Argelia, expone aquí sus principales hitos, con las complejidades propias del conflicto, las que explora para dilucidar una historia de la cual quedan muchas interrogantes abiertas.

El largo viaje inmóvil sucede en Venezuela, un país marcado por la transformación de las instituciones y la sociedad para imponer un poder omnipresente. La mirada del autor combina reportajes y semblanzas que dibujan la vida de los barrios, las fiestas, la delincuencia, la policía, la violencia y la política. Los despachos de la capital, la selva amazónica, las minas de oro, el delirante funeral de Chávez en Caracas. Por las páginas de Largo viaje inmóvil desfila un pueblo que sobrevive y resiste en medio del caos.