Libros

During the 1980s and early 1990s the Challenger 1 main battle tank played a central role in Britain's armored forces and it achieved remarkable success in combat, destroying around 300 Iraqi tanks in the Gulf War. With its advanced Chobham armor and hydropneumatic suspension system, it was one of (...)

¿Sabía que Cataluña fue una de las regiones más taurinas y donde se recogen los testimonios más antiguos de las corridas de toros en España? ¿O que una de las hijas de el Cid se casó con un conde de Barcelona?... ¿Y que soldados catalanes lucharon para el Imperio español desde la Patagonia hasta (...)

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, remains a military powerhouse of that continent until our days. Nowadays involved in the war in neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen of other armed conflicts over the last 60 years.Crucial between these was the (...)

Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, has remained a military powerhouse of that continent until the present day. Currently involved in the war in neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia was also involved in half a dozen of other armed conflicts during the last 60 years. One of the most (...)

Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk to Britain's sea lines of communication posed by France's armoured cruisers. Fast, well-armed and well-protected, these ships could have evaded any attempted blockade of (...)

En 1909, mientras media Barcelona ardía durante los graves disturbios de la Semana Trágica, aún resistían los últimos legendarios bandoleros andaluces. El ejército del hampa estaba formado por un universo fascinante: dronistas, sirleros, espadistas, ratas de hotel y, por supuesto, apaches, tipos (...)

Dentro de la indumentaria tradicional valenciana, nos centraremos en los llamados trajes populares, por ser los más característicos de nuestra cultura, y aquellos que mayor número de vestigios nos han dejado. Nos referimos a aquellos utilizados por la gente sencilla, por el pueblo. Aludir a su (...)

España es tierra de tesoros, lo que nos coloca a la cabeza de los países más representados de la lista de la Unesco, con más Patrimonio Mundial. La riqueza del legado artístico de España ha orientado el propósito de la presente obra: Los pilares de España y sus 52 capitales.

Confiamos en que este vademécum sobre el Patrimonio Histórico-Artístico cumpla los objetivos que nos hemos propuesto y también anhelamos que se convierta en buen compañero de viaje para conocer los tesoros que ofrece España. Pero, sobre todo, esperamos que estas páginas sirvan para proporcionar (...)

During the 13-year insurgency (1961 74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing in action and 771 wounded ? represented 11.5 (...)

Juan Rulfo escribió Pedro Páramo tras comprobar que su pueblo, al que no había vuelto en treinta años, estaba abandonado. Esa misma pulsión de recuperar con palabras lo que se ha perdido guía la escritura de Virginia Mendoza en su viaje por los pueblos y aldeas más remotos de España. Este libro (...)

In 1961, Portugal found itself fighting a war to retain its colonial possessions and preserve the remnants of its Empire. It was almost completely unprepared to do so, and this was particularly evident in its ability to project power and to control the vast colonial spaces of Africa. Following the (...)

Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Brad Pitt. But how much do we really (...)

More than one hundred years ago, discoveries from a German archaeological dig at Uruk, roughly two hundred miles south of present-day Baghdad, sent shock waves through the scholarly world. Founded at the end of the fifth millennium BCE, Uruk was the main force for urbanization in what has come to (...)

Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435 1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his spectacular sculptures and paintings to his work in goldsmithing, architecture, and engineering. His expressive, confident drawings provide a (...)

As of 1975, the decades long insurgency in Angola appeared to be short of its conclusion. However, with no less than three major insurgent movements fighting for supremacy, the war went on and then South Africa, USA, the Soviet Union, Zaire and Cuba became involved.Affairs like the CIA's efforts to (...)

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present.In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red-now traces the visual, (...)

A celebration of the achievements and transformative power of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's work that has inspired generations of artists and designers.In the final decades of the 19th century, the Glasgow Style introduced Art Nouveau in Britain and helped transform an industrial city into Scotland's (...)

Tercer volumen de una magna obra en cuatro volúmenes y cerca de 2.000 páginas que ofrece por vez primera la catalogación de toda la obra escultórica del gran artista vasco Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002).En una cuidada edición y bajo la dirección científica de los propietarios y conservadores del (...)

Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacon's works from 1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed over-analysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely (...)