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Sirviéndose, como línea argumental, de la historia de los caballos de raza lipizana, Frank Westerman recorre la historia contemporánea de la Europa del siglo XX en este brillante y original ensayo, que se lee como una novela. Siguiendo el árbol genealógico y las vicisitudes de las yeguadas imperiales, el autor-narrador reconstruye la historia de cuatro generaciones de purasangres y de cómo consiguieron sobrevivir a las guerras napoleónicas, la caída del Imperio austrohúngaro, las dos guerras mundiales, los delirantes experimentos para mejorar las razas proyectados por Hitler, Stalin...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

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El propio mundo masivo y popular en constitución en la segunda mitad del siglo xix, en compleja mixtura con sus antecedentes campesinos y plebeyos, comenzará a pugnar por introducirse en la disputa por la representación verdadera de la realidad. Así surgen distintos modos de hacer periodismo y esas prácticas y rutinas van configurando ciertos modelos, van abriendo paso a la profesionalización de la actividad y, en suma, van creando las condiciones de emergencia de un mercado periodístico.