Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana, |...

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From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

De la mano de historiadores, nacidos la mayoría en plena dictadura y formados en la academia nacional, el libro revisa en tres partes los hitos claves del “laboratorio” que ha sido Chile en estos últimos cincuenta años. La primera se centra en la Unidad Popular y su “vía chilena al socialismo”; el golpe de 1973 y la implantación del modelo autoritario con economía liberal; el papel de las iglesias en defensa de los derechos humanos; y se cierra con la implantación irregular de la Constitución de 1980. La segunda parte se ocupa del exilio, que afectó a miles de compatriotas;...

To rally support among influential leaders in the court and capital of the Spanish king, he printed a Castillian translation of the "letter" for simultaneous circulation.