A compilation of detailed texts and historic photographic images of the architectural heritage of Medellín, its streets, churches, buildings, hospitals. Many of the places documented have been demolished and the photographers are the only remaining witnesses to study the transformation of its urban landscape over the centuries. A catalogue of buildings is included with images in the Note section at the end of the book.
La Biblia Envenenada The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his…
Colección De Documentos Inéditos Para La Historia De Chile Desde El… Excerpt from Colección de Documentos Inéditos para la Historia de Chile Desde el Viaje de Magallanes Hasta la Batalla de Maipo, 1518-1818, Vol. 18: Valdivia y Sus Compañeros, XI E después de lo susodicho, en este dicho día, mes e' año dicho, yo, el dicho escribano, hice la dicha citación…
Realismo Magico, Vallenato Y Violencia Politica En El Caribe Colombiano By reading Caribbean novels and ethnographies I trace the conformation of a critical tradition which influences aesthetics and social thought, and makes public the relation between cultural myths and social inequalities. In contrast to Alejo Carpentiers image of the Caribbean as a sanctuary where intellectuals escape from western rationalism, Garcia…
Croniñón Little Croniñón helps his clan hunt and kill a mammoth and at the same time learns to paint the walls of the cave he lives in.
No Juegues De Noche! It may seem to be an amusing game but behind the Ouija exists a frightening and not-so-amusing mystery.
Stalin, El Tirano Rojo ?Esta obra no tiene solamente el valor de ser una gran biografía equilibrada con respecto a las posturas ideológicas sino que también Álvaro Lozano sabe imprimirle una narración muy sabia y entretenida no ofreciéndonos datos y datos vitales de manera pasiva y esquemática sino una visión del estalinismo a través…
