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La presente obra consiste en una sucinta colección de bytes históricos que, en algunos pasajes, pone en tela de juicio leyendas urbanas relacionados con la historia de los Estados Unidos; en otros, ilustra algunos sucesos históricos poco notorios y ofrece un enfoque diferente sobre algunos hechos conocidos.

Jalisco 1910-2010 completa el proyecto editorial de conmemoraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia y el Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana, en fechas coincidentes de dos siglos del México moderno. Esta obra recrea acontecimientos curiosos, célebres, inusitados o inéditos, para quienes vivieron parte del pasado siglo xx, o para los más jóvenes jaliscienses que solamente escucharon historias de padres y abuelos, increíbles por tan lejanas, por tan desconocidas, además de que muchas de estas anécdotas históricas aún no son del dominio de la nueva cultura del saber global que...

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.

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