Libros

Constancia de la Mora es una de las figuras españolas más paradójicas y enigmáticas de los años treinta. Nacida en un entorno privilegiado y conservador, destinada a casarse bien, tener hijos y formar parte de la élite de la vieja España , rompió con los cánones de la época al convertirse en una (...)

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541--1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice, to Rome and ultimately Toledo, Spain, "The (...)

The book structure is intrinsically related to ideas underpinning the attitude of Francis of Assisi that are still highly topical: human dignity in poverty, the revaluation of sensible knowledge as opposed to the hegemony of purely instrumental reason, the preservation of nature - entropy, walking (...)

Este ensayo propone una singular interpretación de la obra de los arquitectos Francesco Venezia y John Hejduk, sosteniendo que bajo sus obras subyace el antiguo "arte de la memoria", y que solo entendidas bajo los postulados de aquella olvidada ciencia cobran su verdadero sentido.

on este libro las Jornadas de Investigadores Pre-doctorales se consolidan al llegar a su tercera edi-ción, tras las reuniones celebradas respectivamente en Daroca (2014) y Albarracín (2016). En esta oca-sión han sido organizadas por el Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Zaragoza (...)

The year 2018 celebrates the Centennial of US Cruise Missiles. In 1918 Col. Hap Arnold, future father of the U. S. Air Force, was sent overseas to France to prepare for the operational deployment of vast clouds of unmanned Kettering Bugs to be used against the German Army. This book begins with an (...)

Filling a void in major works on legendary U.S. Naval carrier-based jet aircraft, this book is the definitive work on the design, development, flight testing, and initial service history of the Chance Vought F-8 Crusader. Having become the Navy's first fully-operational supersonic aircraft, the F-8 (...)