Libros

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it, although public opinion in the West had been (...)

Titian (active 1506 1576) produced a masterful group of paintings for Philip II of Spain, celebrating the loves of gods, goddesses, and mortals. Depicting scenes from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, Titian named them poesie and considered the works as visual equivalents of poetry. This volume (...)

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Army. In Russia, the American Bell P-39 Airacobra (...)

Entrée dans les collections du Louvre en 1800, La Vierge au chancelier Rolin, peinte par Jan Van Eyck vers 1435, vient d'être restaurée. C'est un grand événement auquel le Louvre a souhaité consacrer une exposition et un livre afin d'y associer le public. C'est, en effet, une occasion unique de (...)

Desplazarse desde el valle del Urola hasta Donostia es hoy en día una actividad cotidiana. Muchos lo hacen en los modernos autobuses que bajo la marca Lurraldebus opera para la Diputación de Gipuzkoa una empresa centenaria: La Guipuzcoana.Desde 1925, los autobuses de La Guipuzcoana han asegurado la (...)

La magia ha fascinado a la humanidad durante milenios y ha sido fuente continua de terror, risas, consternación y asombro. Perseguidos en otra época como herejes y brujos, los magos han sido siempre intermediarios de un universo paralelo de ilimitadas posibilidades, ya fuese invocando espíritus, (...)