Palabra y poder

A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering eye for detail, Reston now weaves a captivating narrative that examines a pivotal period in that centuries- long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This saga of colliding worlds is propelled by two astonishing young...

La vida de Stalin antes de la Revolución fue siempre un enigma, que él mismo ocultaba con silencios y falsedades. Lo mismo podría decirse de los antecedentes de la propia Revolución, convertida en una leyenda épica tras el triunfo de los bolcheviques. Gracias a una impresionante aportación de nuevos documentos, Simon Sebag Montefiore, el autor de aquella obra maestra que es “La corte del zar rojo”, nos descubre un joven Stalin hasta ahora desconocido, que cobra una sorprendente dimensión humana en estas páginas, y nos da una visión por dentro de la forma en que se preparó y...

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...

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