Mi amigo el Ché

American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...

Como infatigable andinista, caminante y atento observador de la naturaleza, Manuel Rojas conocía de árboles, pájaros, flores e insectos, así como del relieve de la costa y el cielo de Chile. En sus silenciosas excursiones y caminatas, solo o acompañado, aprendió el ruido del bosque y la soledad de las montañas de Los Andes por las cuales tenía especial predilección porque eran, para él, una inagotable fuente de riqueza emocional. Esta nueva edición de A pie por Chile -ilustrada con fotografías y mapas- reúne artículos originales e inéditos que Manuel Rojas escribió durante...

In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to social democracy in action: to re-enshrining fairness over mere efficiency.

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