La Destrucción de la Atlántida

Title: Archivo mexicano. Documentos para la historia de Mexico. (Sumario de la residencia tomada á D. Fernando Cortes, gobernador y capitan general de la N. E. y á otros gobernadores y officiales de la misma. Paleografiado del original por el Lic. Ignacio Lopez Rayon.). Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and...

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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

¿Cómo se vive a diario durante una guerra? Aun en la lucha más sangrienta, la vida no se detiene: tanto en el frente como en la retaguardia, las personas atienden a su subsistencia, pero también a sus deberes, sus deseos, incluso sus sueños. Todos se afanan sobre un espacio que de repente se ha transformado en un peligroso juego de estrategia. La Guerra Civil Española no fue una excepción. El presente libro reconstruye, en difícil y lograda síntesis histórica, la vida y el trabajo cotidianos en el lado leal a la República. Durante los treinta y tres meses que duró el conflicto se...