Sangre de baguales

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Michael D. Coe, uno de los mas importantes mayologos de la actualidad, relata en este libro la historia de lo que el considera "una de las aventuras intelectuales mas interesantes de nuestro tiempo": una historia polemica, de enfrentamientos intelectuales entre los distintos expertos que, si bien con ideas distintas, a veces directamente opuestas, participaron en la ardua labor del desciframiento de los glifos mayas. Knorosov, Thompson y Proskouriakoff, protagonistas de esta aventura, aparecen retratados finamente por Coe en este libro.

Vivimos en un tiempo de gigantes avances tecnológicos, más de lo que el mundo ha vivido jamás. Más como la historia lo ha probado, cada nuevo descubrimiento o cambio social no es necesariamente en pos del beneficio de comunidades más pequeñas o para el mundo a gran escala. Albert Einstein, un pacifista de toda la vida, al darse cuenta de que sus descubrimientos por consiguiente conllevarían la creación de la bomba atómica, se arrepintió de haberlos pensado. Un colega científico, llamado Leo Szilard (de Long Island, Nueva York), explicó cómo una reacción explosiva podría ser...