Spinola. Capitán general de los Tercios

This book does a great job of trying to cover all the significant events and chapters in Napoleon's life. It covers all the important military campaigns, including the reasons for going to war, but also provides excellent coverage of Napoleon's youth in Corsica, his marriages and affairs, his economic policies and political and diplomatic strategies.

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...

Resultado de quince años de investigaciones, la “Autobiografía” de Valerio del Bierzo nos revela un retrato vívido de una sociedad en transición entre la Antigüedad y la Edad Media en la parte más occidental de aquella Europa del siglo VII, la Gallaecia. Relato escrito en primera persona, único en su estilo en aquel momento histórico, tiene la peculiaridad de haber sido redactado por un anacoreta que había abandonado la vida cenobítica y creía ser el prototipo del hombre santo heredero de los Padres del Desierto. Religiosidad, política y cultura son temas recurrentes en este...

A collection of images by the renowned Mexican American photographer, accompanied by critical essays and appreciations.