La guerra después de la guerra

Does a “perfect assassination” exist? Perfect crimes are the ones we never hear about. Crimes involving a double affront to their victims where we couldn’t have known leaves their closest relatives, helpless and disheartened at the destruction. “Thou shall not kill,” is present in all civilizations as a fundamental premise, and perhaps the only one absolutely necessary for coexistence between humans. The majority of these crimes are considered perfect solely because of the incompetence of the investigators. With detention techniques, no crime, regardless of how well-planned, always...

Un gran relato que nos descubre la apasionante historia de las civilizaciones que nos precedieron. De Europa a Oriente Medio hasta las costas de China, la autora de este ambicioso volumen nos ofrece una mirada única a las vidas de los pueblos que han protagonizado la aventura de la humanidad. Así, más que un libro de historia, el lector tiene en sus manos una exquisita narración de los albores del ser humano. Acompañado de varios mapas que proporcionan al lector un claro sentido de la localización de los acontecimientos, así como de tablas cronológicas que permiten adquirir una...

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PEDRO MENDOZA no intenta â??contar su vidaâ??, sino la evoluci?3n de su propia sociedad, a modo de icono simb?3lico. Muchos espa?±oles, y otros ciudadanos del mundo, tuvieron alguna vez vivencias parecidas. Por eso, con el pretexto de su vida, incide en temas nucleares: educaci?3n, pobreza, sexo, amor, justicia, compromiso pol?­tico, cr?­tica de la religi?3n, globalizaci?3n, tercer mundoâ?¦ C?3mo un espa?±olito de posguerras, con origen rural y pobre, pas?3 de la sumisi?3n al sentido cr?­tico. Paso a paso, d?­a a d?­a, â??yo soy yo y mi circunstanciaâ?? (Ortega y Gasset). Desde...