Libros

Este libro es a la vez una biografía histórica y un estudio del arte del Renacimiento. Sigue los pasos de Leonardo desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte. Tiene como protagonistas al propio pintor y a los personajes que le rodearon a lo largo de su vida, el maestro verrocchio, la familia Médicis, los (...)

Nadie es indiferente a la publicidad. Todos formamos parte de una sociedad de consumo en la cual la herramienta fundamental para que funcione el sistema es dar a conocer los productos y, en este sentido, la publicidad es un arma seductora que busca sacarnos parte de nuestro dinero. Quienes vivimos (...)

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she (...)

Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963 66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the (...)

In this highly detailed book, naval historian Edward Hampshire reveals the fascinating history of the nuclear-powered attack submarines built and operated by the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including each class of these formidable craft as they developed throughout the Cold War period.The (...)