Cerro Gordo

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

"La Fragmentacion Politica Argentina: Presidentes y Antinomias" investiga la visualizacion que los distintos Gobiernos han tenido sobre la identidad politica nacional argentina. En un exhaustivo recorrido por las divergentes ideologias de los presidentes que han gobernado a este pais entre 1916 hasta nuestros dias, el autor indaga sobre el recurrente intento de los Gobiernos nacionales de expulsar a sus adversarios de la escena politica nacional. Esta investigacion permite comprender los origenes y las razones de una identidad politica conflictiva que ha llevado tanto a Gobiernos autoritarios ...

Este libro, con abundante material gráfico a todo color, profundiza en el origen de la recientemente impuesta bandera de la provincia de Almería. El autor desvela que se trata de una estrategia impulsada por un grupúsculo en el que convive desde la ultraderecha hasta el pancatalanismo, pero a los que une el rechazo a Andalucía y lo andaluz, por considerarlo "moro" y "rojo". La verdad sobre la conquista de la ciudad de Almería por los genoveses, la verdad sobre la bandera, y la verdad sobre quienes son y qué buscan. Un libro imprescindible para cualquier andaluz, y muy especialmente si...

Gun smuggling into Mexico are fueling a war between cartels and generating the most horrible profitable bussines ever known

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