Vaca muerta

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

«El collar de la paloma» (Tauq al-hamamah), traducido en 1967 al castellano por el estudioso del Islam Emilio García Gómez, es un «tratado sobre el amor y los amantes» de raíz neoplatónica que contiene una reflexión poética y autobiográfica, sobre las formas del amor profano y divino en la cultura musulmana. Escrita en una prosa elegante en que se insertan versos, esta obra influyó en las literaturas oriental y europea del Medioevo.

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Lograr el uso masivo de la bicicleta es un objetivo clave para el transporte sostenible en las grandes ciudades contemporáneas. Para lograrlo, este libro plantea un nuevo paradigma para el diseño de cicloinfraestructura que se construye desde las necesidades de los ciclistas y no desde los principios tradicionales de ingeniería. Sobre esta base, y a partir de la experiencia en la capital colombiana, Ciclismo urbano. Avances y retos para el caso de Bogotá presenta los resultados de investigaciones del Grupo de estudios en Sostenibilidad Urbana y Regional de la Universidad de los Andes y se ...