Simón de Rojas Clemente

Si este libro fuese una serie de fechas y datos sueltos, no sería un libro de historia: sería un almanaque. Sí, hay hechos probados, pero a menudo la forma en que se cuentan dice mucho más de nosotros mismos que de la historia en sí. Aquí tienes las herramientas necesarias para entenderla: ¿Son importantes las fuentes? ¿Es necesario aprender fechas en la era digital? ¿Si eliminásemos a los «grandes hombres» de la historia, realmente cambiaría el cuento? ¿Qué es eso de que hay que entender el pasado para comprender el presente? Aquí no solo leerás acerca de la batalla de...

After the success of Miss Narco, Javier Valdez presents a new work on Mexico s drug crisis. This time, the leading characters are young men and women at that crucial age in their personal development who, in one way or another, come across the world of drug trafficking. Some escape its clutches while others fall in its trap, but their lives are irrevocably changed. The author collects the most intense, moving and surprising accounts that mark Mexicos social and political reality today. Spanish Description: Tras el exito de Miss Narco, Javier Valdez entrega una nueva obra acerca del...

This volume includes31 constitutions, constitutional drafts and amendments illustrating the checkered political history of Spain in the first half of the 19th century. It begins with the "Estatuto de Bayona" (Bayonne Statute) imposed by the French in 1808 and continues with the"Constitucion politica de la Monarquia Espanola" (Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy), the first independent constitution of Spain, which was drawn up in Cadiz in 1812. Subsequently, it also includes the "Constitucion de la Monarquia Espanola" (Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy) of 1845.Nine...

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...