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El Zarco y Los bandidos de Río Frío en el siglo xix, los narcocorridos y el tortilla western de los hermanos Almada en el XX, y más recientemente la literatura, la plástica y la cinematografía de creadores como Élmer Mendoza, Luis Estrada y Teresa Margolles develan el sentido y la función social del crimen en México. A diferencia de autores como Fuentes, Revueltas y Paz, para quienes la violencia y lo terrible expresan cierta esencia de lo mexicano, Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba sostiene que la criminalidad ha de interpretarse a partir de la incompetencia del Estado y como forma de...

Recoge más de treinta de las mejores entradas de la serie noir Akáshicos, incluyendo historias de Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver y T. Jefferson Parker.

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

An intergenerational book, fully illustrated, that will delight both the little ones and adults. With an informative language, but with great rigor, we will take a tour of those aspects of the history of Spain that are most unknown, bringing closer and facilitating their knowledge to a new generation.