Obras de Los Moralistas Griegos: Marco Aurelio-Teofrasto-Epicteto-Cebes...

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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...

Los años cortos pero intensos de la II República marcaron la sociedad de una manera clara y definitiva en los aspectos socio-políticos y en la vida cultural. El trabajo en la ciudad, la vida cotidiana y las generaciones de intelectuales que se mezclaron como la del 27 y 98.

La muerte le sentó bien a Benito Juárez. En cuanto exhaló su último suspiro, tras la dolorosa angina de pecho, se inició el lento y sutil proceso que convertiría al liberal oaxaqueño en uno de los mayores héroes de la historia patria. A revisar esa trayectoria, más que a narrar la vida del zapoteco que se convirtió en presidente de la república, se dedica aquí Rebeca Villalobos Álvarez: con herramientas retóricas empleadas de un modo original, la autora muestra las transformaciones que experimentó el Benemérito de las Américas durante el siglo posterior a su fallecimiento,...