Tiwanaku, entre el cielo y la tierra

Henri Charriere, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: "escape." After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charriere's...

A study of the political and archaeological controversies surrounding the Castilian Necropoleis of the V-VI Centuries AD and the Visigoth Settlement in the Iberian Peninsula. The author attempts to deconstruct the various controversies and presents fresh analysis based on the archaeological data and literary evidence.

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originally published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher's magnum opus offers a profound and careful analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. With rich prose and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked specifically at the way in which urban geography shaped gangs and posited the thesis that neighborhoods in flux were more likely to produce gangs. Moreover, he traced gang culture back to feudal and medieval power systems...

La 4e de couverture indique : "Pocos libros se nutren como éste de la experiencia del autor en cargos públicos y en movimientos sociales, así como de su formación académica y su práctica profesional. Salvando el desfase entre las disciplinas académicas especializadas y la realidad multidimensional de lo urbano, todas estas facetas se combinan en "Revolución urbana y derechos ciudadanos", que aborda cuestiones fundamentales del urbanismo, de la ciudad como espacio público y la ciudadanía como estatus que asigna deberes y derechos iguales a todas las personas que conviven en un...