El queso y los gusanos

Describes how the rig was built, how it stands out in the water, and how much drilling it does in a day.

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

If we could take a trip to the center of the Earth, what would we find? In this amazing book readers can do just that with the help of a special ship that can handle the extreme heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s crust. Digging through a few miles of the crust is just the start of the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Earth’s core. Readers might be surprised to find that not all of the trip is through solid rock, as the intense heat does strange and amazing things to the material that makes up our planet!

Imprudentes, atrevidas, luchadoras. Éstas son sólo algunas de las categorías a través de las cuales Berta Vías estudia la imagen de la mujer en el marco de la narrativa occidental. Desde la parábola de la emancipación que representa la caída de Eva o la de la liberación del espíritu por parte de Pandora, algo que según los mitos de la antigüedad el hombre debe a la curiosidad insaciable de la mujer, pasando por la fiebre que el teatro del Siglo de Oro español sufrió respecto al tema de la mujer disfrazada de hombre, hasta llegar a un nuevo tipo femenino, que de convertirse en la ...