Artillería y poliorcética en el mundo grecorromano

Esta obra está compuesta por 12 capítulos que, con diferentes marcos teóricos y metodológicos, exploran lo que acerca del cuerpo nos dicen los pueblos nawas, pumé, nahuas, yúhu, mayas, teenek, otomíes, chichimecas jonas y mixtecos. Su lectura nos permite afirmar que estos temas no están agotados para la antropología americanista.

Publicado originalmente en 1976 y actualizado en 2004, este es el libro que consagró a John Keegan como el mejor historiador militar de su generación. Un análisis de tres batallas emblemáticas del arte de la guerra: Agincourt, Waterloo y el Somme, contadas desde el punto de vista del soldado que lucha en primera línea. Es una mirada a la experiencia directa de las personas “en el punto de máximo peligro”, examinando las condiciones físicas de la confrontación, las emociones particulares, las dinámicas que se experimentan en el campo... y los motivos por los que el soldado se...

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...

This study is a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw material in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In Spanish.