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Cynthia Ann Parkers family moved to Central Texas when she was about nine years old. A year later, a large force of Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker and seized Cynthia Ann and four other captives. The other four were eventually released, but she lived among the Indians for 25 years, immersed in the Comanche way of life. Though given a number of opportunities to go back to her white family, she always chose her life with the Comanche, choosing instead to stay with her husband and children. She eventually returned to white society as an adult.

Why did the Civil War begin? Which states were part of the Union and which were part of the Confederacy? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more as they move through this fascinating nonfiction Spanish-translated title. The easy-to-read informational text, engaging facts, and vivid images and illustrations help highlight some of the aspects that led up to the Civil War, including slavery, the Underground Railroad, abolitionists, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The accessible table of contents works in conjunction with the...

El conocimiento de la espiritualidad oriental y de las formas más arcaicas de enfrentamiento humano con lo sagrado, que ha permitido ampliar considerablemente el campo de investigación de las religiones comparadas, debe a Mircea Eliade contribuciones fundamentales. " El mito del eterno retorno " es una original introducción a la Filosofía de la Historia cuyo objeto de estudio son los mitos y creencias de las sociedades tradicionales, movidas por la nostalgia del regreso a los orígenes y rebeldes contra el tiempo concreto. Las categorías en que se expresa esa negación de la historia son ...

Un paseo por Barcelona, tomando como eje conductor sus restos históricos. Este libro es la revisión actualizada de una obra que, con el título de Barcelona XXI siglos ̧ se convirtió en un gran éxito a comienzos de los noventa. Ahora se reedita con imágenes actualizadas y un reportaje sobre la Barcelona actual (Forum, etc.) a cargo de Pepe Navarro.