Breve historia de Chile

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El presente volumen nace del proyecto de investigación sobre el yacimiento de Carranque (Toledo) que viene desarrollándose desde hace años en el marco de las excavaciones sistemáticas subvencionadas por la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha. La excepcionalidad cualitativa y cuantitativa de los marmora documentados en dicho yacimiento, de donde provienen decenas de miles de fragmentos procedentes de las más importantes canteras del arco mediterráneo (Anatolia, Grecia insular y peninsular, Egipto, Tunicia, Hispania), hacen de Carranque uno de los escenarios más interesantes donde ...

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...

Un libro extraordinario que documenta y explica aquellos 1001 acontecimientos, momentos clave, encuentros decisivos, desastres naturales y memorables incidentes que, aún hoy en día, siguen presentes en la memoria colectiva.