Un Salto Gigantesco

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

El hallazgo del llamado Códice K en las ruinas mayas de Palenque permitió descubrir la asombrosa profecía que contiene. ¿Qué ocurrirá en 2012? Esta obra nos habla del contenido del códice y de un salto evolutivo enmarcado en un escenario de profundos cambios sociales y de cataclismos devastadores. ¿Verdaderamente fueron capaces los mayas, a través de sus precisos calendarios, de predecir acontecimientos del futuro? Y lo que es más inquietante: ¿estamos a las puertas del episodio más importante en la historia de la humanidad? ALBERTO BEUTTENMÜLLER es un periodista apasionado por...

Se analiza en detalle los antecedentes sociales de los dos acontecimientos fundamentales de la España moderna: la Guerra Civil y la Transición a la Democracia; explica por qué la democracia no sobrevivió en la década de 1930 y sí lo ha hecho en la de 1980.

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