Latin America and the Caribbean Demographic Observatory 2015

The Demographic Observatory 2017, devoted to the topic of mortality, supports analysis of mortality differentials by sex and age in the Latin American countries between 1950 and 2020. The tables presented in this edition were obtained by interpolation of the life tables implicit in 2017 revision of the population estimates and projections prepared by CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC, jointly or in consultation with the countries' national statistical offices. As usual, an analytical chapter is included, on this occasion presenting mortality differentials by age and sex in selected...

A medio camino entre la historia literaria y la interpretación histórica, Philippe Ollé-Laprune ofrece una sucinta y completa introducción a una literatura que siempre ha intentado liberarse de la influencia del poder: de los curas, soldados y administradores del pasado como de los autores contemporáneos que gozan de numerosas becas, cargos públicos e incentivos, pero que, a la vez, enfrentan una de las redes más pobres para la difusión del libro.

Obra imprescindible para todo aquél que quiera entender e interpretar el papel de la Península Ibérica Musulmana o la “identidad andalusí”.

A brief biography of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador, focusing on his role in the invasion and destruction of the Aztec civilization in Mexico.

Castillejo is one of the most traditional poets in terms of Italian metric forms. However, many consider his style classical for its Renaissance humanism. He wrote about love and morality.