La época de la burguesía

¿Qué podemos aprender del modo en que se llevó la Guerra Fría a una conclusión pacífica? Cuando el Muro de Berlín se derrumbó en 1989 y se aplacaron a la fuerza las protestas en la plaza de Tiananmén en Pekín, el mundo cambió drásticamente. La Guerra Fría había terminado, surgía un nuevo orden mundial. Después del Muro es un relato audaz y novedoso de este doble momento histórico decisivo y extraordinario que dio lugar al mundo tal como lo conocemos hoy. Basándose en impresionantes fuentes antes desconocidas, Kristina Spohr muestra cómo el orden mundial cambió de manera...

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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...

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.