Encuentros en la abadía

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

Un repaso a la historia de la ciudad de Sevilla en la que se perfilan los rasgos más significativos de sus personajes y de su urbanismo, tratado de una manera amena y rigurosa.

The complexity of a country in which violence and internal armed-conflict coexist with enormous cultural, natural, and human riches is captured in this illuminating essay by Colombian poet William Ospina. The accompanying photographs—all previously unpublished—are taken by some of Colombia's best photographers, and each in its own way sheds light on the possibility of a future in which the nation may become reconciled with itself. Esta colección de textos del célebre escritor colombiano William Ospina es un retrato de matices, buenos y malos, escrito de manera crítica pero certera...

Esta obra pretende, en l neas generales, hacer una propuesta de la historia cultural de M xico a trav s de la historia institucional del Fondo de Cultura Econ mica y, en particular, mostrar los pormenores de una organizaci n editorial que desde 1934 a la fecha ha buscado corresponder a una sociedad, ya sea adelant ndose a sus necesidades de lectura o bien satisfaci ndolas.