Manuel Gómez Morin, 1915-1939

A senator and physician considers the threat of bioterrorism in the United States and offers protective strategies, discussing biological agents including anthrax and smallpox, as well as chemical weapons and possible dangers to food and water supplies. (Current Affairs)

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

Discusses briefly the lives of well-known figures from ancient times to present and the events or accomplishments that made them famous.

Este volumen recoge las aportaciones de una serie de especialistas con el objetivo de mostrar cómo confluyen en la obra y el legado de Guillermo Díaz-Plaja diferentes ramas del ámbito de las Humanidades (Historia y Crítica de la Literatura, Didáctica de la Literatura, Filosofía, Biblioteconomía y Archivística, Epistolarios, etc.). Díaz-Plaja fue viajero, hombre-puente entre culturas, profesor, divulgador y gestor cultural. Sus libros y todo su legado han sido conservados en el Fondo Guillermo Díaz-Plaja, ubicado en la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona. Los expertos que...