La derrota de lo épico

Una parte muy importante de la población siria expresó voluntad y esperanzas de cambio a partir de marzo de 2011. Se desataron manifestaciones masivas, a las que los aparatos de seguridad del Estado respondieron con escaladas de represión. Buscando salvaguardar sus propios intereses, gobiernos y movimientos de diferentes países dieron su apoyo a las autoridades en unos casos y a los rebeldes en otros; la rebelión terminó por convertirse en una sublevación armada, a la que el régimen respondió con toda la violencia imaginable. Al cabo de un par de años, lo que había en Siria no era...

Martin Diaz Tamayo (1904-1995) was an illiterate peasant from Pinar del Rio, Cuba, who joined the Cuban army at the age of sixteen and rose to the rank of major general.

Recent advancements in science have spurred new hypotheses for ancient mysteries that have baffled mankind for centuries, and this book explores those enigmas and their new explanations. Shedding light on questions such as Was Tutankhamen’s tomb guarded by a curse? and Was Stonehenge a prehistoric astronomical observatory?, this guide discusses ancient civilizations, ruins, and legends—including Atlantis, the curse of the pharaohs, and the hidden Mayan cities—and proposes whether they are truth or myth. Los recientes adelantos de la ciencia han permitido que surjan nuevas hipótesis...

George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year “A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best.” —Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. It was a project that changed...