El libro de los Libros de Chilam Balam

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

“Each war entails the destruction of the human soul” (Henry Miller). Humanity should not lose its memory, even if some may try to conceal it. From the hindsight afforded by the passing of 75 years from the events narrated, with freedom of thought and a totally independent standpoint, Pacific Media have undertaken an arduous research which has resulted in the series: “The Finest Hours of WWII". From the atrocious moment in which Hitler ordered the invasion of Polish territory to the day in which Emperor Hirohito “had to accept the unacceptable”, all is encompassed in this book over...

Title: Relacion documentada del origen y progresos del trastorno de las provincias de Venezuela, etc. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The...

Testigo de excepción, Churchill - primer ministro británico durante los períodos 1940-1945 y 1951-1955 - describe en este libro el transcurso de la segunda guerra mundial y los principales episodios que en ella acontecieron, legando un testimonio directo sin parangón con ningún otro de sus protagonistas coetáneos. El camino hacia el desastre desde el tratado de Versalles hasta que Hitler conquista Polonia, la guerra 'ficticia' que acabó con la invasión alemana de Escandinavia, la caída de Francia y la batalla de Gran Bretaña, el bombardeo de Londres, la lucha en el desierto... son...