La era del Jazz y la Gran Depresión (The Jazz Age and the Great Depression)

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, it prompted the United States to enter World War II on multiple fronts. From Africa to Europe, the Pacific to the home front, explore the American experience of World War II through the first-hand documents of the war.

Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, Stephen did not let the illness define his life. Known for his groundbreaking work in physics, and identified by his wheelchair and computerized voice system, Stephen continued...

Mimoun y su hija nacen para cumplir los papeles que el patriarca les ha asignado, unos roles establecidos hace miles de años. Pero las circunstancias les llevan a cruzar el estrecho de Gibraltar y a entrar en contacto con las costumbres occidentales. La protagonista sin nombre tratará de comprender por qué su padre se ha convertido en una figura despótica, mientras inicia un camino sin retorno hacia su propia identidad y libertad.

Cuando Aicher antepone lo analogico y concreto a lo digital y abstracto, lo hace con intencion filosofica. Relativiza el papel de la razon pura y critica el racionalismo de la modernidad como fruto del predominio de un mero pensar abstracto. A juicio de Aicher, anteponer lo abstracto a lo concreto crea una falsa jerarquia, un orden, que es fatal para la cultura. Lo digital, abstracto, no es mas elevado, mayor o mas importante que lo analogico, concreto. Otl Aicher, co-fundador de la ya legendaria escuela de Ulm, es uno de los representantes sobresalientes del diseno moderno. Entre sus...

Examines The Properties Of Matter, The Use Of Energy From Gasoline Or Batteries, And Various Other Sources Of Energy.