Descubrimientos Arqueologicos No Autorizados

En sus análisis de las distintas leyendas que hablan de las tentativas humanas de ascender a los cielos, al igual que los dioses, en pos de la inmortalidad, el autor se adentra en las vidas de los faraones de Egipto que enseñaron cómo recorrer la Ruta de

A partir de un material excepcional formado por la rica correspondencia mantenida entre los agentes que compraban pinturas en Venecia en el siglo xvii para los grandes coleccionistas españoles, Leticia de Frutos recrea el vivo ambiente del mercado artístico entre los canales venecianos, a la vez que examina y replantea conceptos teóricos que marcaron la mirada y forma de entender la pintura en el siglo XVII. Cartas del navegar pintoresco. Correspondencia de pinturas en Venecia es una ventana abierta para conocer las reglas que marcaban el mercado del arte: riesgos de fraude, regateos y...

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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...