Las guerras de Cuba

David Christian, el creador de la "big history", de la "gran historia" que enlaza la evolución del cosmos, de la vida y de la humanidad para ofrecernos una perspectiva distinta de los grandes problemas del Antropoceno, culmina su obra con este libro realmente único, que discurre desde el big bang, el sistema solar, la aparición de la vida, los dinosaurios, el homo sapiens y los grandes imperios hasta la globalización. Un libro que ha despertado el entusiasmo de lectores como Bill Gates o el físico Carlo Rovelli quien considera esta disciplina "un método espectacular para, a través de...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Volumen que ofrece la primera edición crítica de la descripción de la ciudad de Verona escrita en latín por el juriconsulto y cronista local Torello Saraina, publicada en 1540. Una obra que responde al modelo de "laudatio urbis" establecido por Quintiliano. Escrita en forma de diálogo, los interlocutores son, además de Saraina, personajes pertenecientes a nobles y ricas familias veronesas, quienes recorren en varias jornadas la ciudad, desplegando una amable erudición junto al pintor y amante de las antigüedades (arqueólogo) Giovanni Carotto (1488-1566), a quien se deben las 30...