Libros

Las relaciones entre ciudad, consumo artístico, sociedad e ideología son un campo de investigación clave para la historia social, la historia cultural y la historiografía del arte. En los últimos treinta años se han producido aportaciones relevantes sobre esta materia. Cierto es que, en el contexto (...)

La principal aportación de Benito Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas, 1843-Madrid, 1920) a la cultura española fue inventar una imagen moderna del ser humano, que superaba la forjada a base de los arquetipos mentales y dualidades predominantes desde el Renacimiento: razón y corazón, mente y emociones, (...)

There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with star-studded photographs and personal stories (...)

For more than 70 years, Gun Digest has been the No. 1 go-to source and research guide for firearms enthusiasts worldwide. Informative and entertaining articles by the top writers in the field cover every aspect of guns and shooting, including hunting, personal defense, target practice, gunmaking (...)

USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in one of the most famous classes of battleships ever commissioned into the US Navy. Transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, the Iowa first fired her guns in anger in the Marshall Islands campaign, and sunk her first enemy ship, the Katori. The Iowa went on to (...)

Adopted from the Celts in the 1st century BC, the spatha, a lethal and formidable chopping blade, became the primary sword of the Roman soldier in the Later Empire. Over the following centuries, the blade, its scabbard, and its system of carriage underwent a series of developments, until by the 3rd (...)