El espíritu alquímico de Don Quijote

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Este texto busca explicar el tipo de cultura política que construyeron los funcionarios de gobierno, las élites políticas e intelectuales colombianas entre 1886 y 1938. Muestra cómo algunos de estos líderes políticos y funcionarios del Estado, independientemente de su filiación partidista, defendieron la democracia como el sistema político ideal.

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Completa y rigurosa visión de conjunto de la civilización egipcia, que, basada en la cronología más fiable hasta la fecha, incorpora los datos aportados por los últimos descubrimientos arqueológicos. El texto se completa con un abundante material gráfico, así como con numerosos textos egipcios.