Rafael Núñez y el regionalismo político en Colombia 1863-1886

Fernando Benítez reconstruye en forma de crónica el camino que siguió el conquistador desde su desembarco en las playas de Veracruz hasta su entrada a la gran Tenochtitlan. El resultado es una sugestiva lección de historia y geografía que culmina en una simbiosis afortunada entre lo viejo y lo nuevo.

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En esta obra grandiosa, monumental, indiscutiblemente única tanto en concepción como en amplitud, Elémire Zolla no sólo emprende una antología de textos admirables y a menudo ignorados, sino que simultáneamente se lanza a una detallada interpretación de toda la experiencia mística de Occidente, que se aparece a los ojos del lector como una summa definitiva de un tipo de pensamiento que hunde sus raíces en el logos y en Cristo. Se trata, pues, de un recorrido por las infinitas ramificaciones de este sistema, desde las doctrinas mistéricas paganas hasta la fascinación de los grandes...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...