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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...

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En el siglo VI a. C. la ciudad griega de Mileto, situada en la costa occidental de Anatolia, fue el epicentro desde el que se desencadenó la revolución intelectual que sentaría las bases para el desarrollo de nuestro conocimiento moderno del mundo. Trazando un hilo que recorre cerca de dos mil años de historia desde Tales de Mileto hasta Newton, John Freely narra el apasionante relato de la ciencia griega desde su nacimiento en la costa egea de Asia Menor, pasando por su consolidación en la Atenas clásica y el mundo helenístico y la preservación de su legado en el mundo islámico...