Astronomicon

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Durante los años treinta y cuarenta, la Alemania nazi protagonizó un despegue fulgurante en las ciencias y las tecnologías que transformó espectacularmente el desarrollo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, a la postre, condujo a la fabricación de las armas de destrucción masiva y sus elementos de transporte, los misiles balísticos. John Cornwell nos narra, además de un período trascendental de la historia contemporánea, la actividad de los científicos alemanes, desde el ascenso de Hitler al poder en 1933 hasta su derrota en 1945. Con ello nos permite conocer el comportamiento de los...

Este libro pretende estudiar, en primer lugar, cómo se ha verificado el tránsito de la Edad Media a la Modernidad y de ésta a la Posmodernidad. Atiende, sobre todo, a las raíces filosóficas de este movimiento porque, a la larga, son las ideas las que transforman las sociedades. Con ello no se niega el valor de los factores económicos, raciales, políticos, etc. Al mismo tiempo, el libro estudia las grandes construcciones ideológicas de la Modernidad, lo que se ha llamado ¿los grandes relatos?, y la crisis profunda en la que ha entrado, como denuncian lo más penetrantes críticos de...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...