Los sueños y los días

This rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles offers fascinating new insights into the history and culture of Sephardic Jewry both in pre-Expulsion Iberia and throughout the far-flung diaspora.

Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

Amb la doble aspiració de contribuir al millor coneixement de la història de la Universitat de València i de culminar el projecte d'estudiar els seus graduats durant l'època foral analitzant l'etapa compresa entre 1650 i 1707, sorgeix aquest estudi. És per això que indaga sobre la normativa de col·lació de graus, els equips d'examinadors, el torn de priorat, les propines o els drets d'examen, entre altres. Els graduats, com a exponent de la projecció social del Estudi, constitueixen un altre apartat. Així mateix, s'arreplega en forma de catàleg- que anota el nom del graduat, la...