Crimen de Estado / State Crime

Andrés de Urdaneta y Ceráin, marino, militar, cosmógrafo y religioso al servicio de Felipe II, ha sido injustamente olvidado por nuestra historia naval a pesar de haber descubierto una de las más importantes rutas marítimas de todos los tiempos. Agustín R. Rodríguez, uno de los especialistas en historia naval más reconocidos, recupera en este épico y novedoso ensayo biográfico la excepcional aventura de este marino vasco que estableció una ruta entre América y Asia, desde Acapulco a Manila, de vital importancia para el comercio y el sostenimiento del imperio, así como para...

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En la historiografía novohispana, la obra de fray Toribio Motolinía es fuente indispensable. Edmundo O"Gorman ha investigado, con exigente pasión de erudito, la vida y los escritos del misionero y una inquietud que es el objeto de esta obra: la conjetura de que la Historia de los indios de la Nueva España no fuera un texto de Motolinía. Disipar ese enigma es el intento de este libro.

Since the airplane's invention in 1903, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands of have been produced. Drawing widely from that massive group, journalist Paolo Matricardi has fashioned a fascinating history of this deadly weapon of war. This large-format book traces the military aircraft from the early days of the 1911 Italy-Turkey war, when the first bomb was dropped from an airplane, to today's computerized, high-tech models with precision-guided missiles and laser targeting. Author Matricardi discusses such intriguing models as Lockheed's A-12 Oxcart...