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Demóstenes (384-322 a.C.) es un autor imprescindible de la literatura clásica. Considerado una de las cimas de la oratoria de todos los tiempos, y de dilatada influencia posterior, sus vehementes discursos políticos a la Asamblea ateniense representan el último esfuerzo de Grecia por salvaguardar sus valores democráticos frente a la amenaza que suponía el rey Filipo de Macedonia y su hijo, Alejandro Magno.

John H. Morrow, Jr., es profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Georgia. Se ha especializado en la historia social y militar europea del siglo xx y es autor, entre otras obras, de Building German Air Power, 1909-1914 (1976), German Air Power in World War I (1982) y The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 (1993), así como editor de A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (1996).

The photographer reveals the modern transformation of Cuba in a series of more than one hundred startling photographs he took between 1997 and 2001, accompanied by incisive essays on Cuban culture, society, politics, economics, and more. (Current Affairs)

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...