SPA-TENIENTE GENERAL DON PABLO

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...

Desde la muerte del general Franco se han publicado muchos estudios sobre aspectos parciales de la guerra civil española, pero ninguna gran síntesis general que pudiera reemplazar a las obras que un día fueron famosas y que hoy, ante el considerable avance realizado por las investigaciones históricas, están desfasadas. El primer mérito de este nuevo libro de Antony Beevor es, precisamente, el de basarse en un serio esfuerzo de documentación que recoge hasta los resultados más recientes de las investigaciones realizadas en España, y fuera de ella, en las últimas décadas, a lo que...

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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...