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An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

En abril del año 44 a. C., Cayo Octavio, un joven de dieciocho años, desembarcaba en Brindisi y reclamaba la herencia y el nombre de su tío abuelo, Cayo Julio César. Tres lustros después, este puer, este "chaval", como despectivamente lo motejara Cicerón, era el amo de Roma, tras derrotar primero a los asesinos de César, después al hijo de Pompeyo el Grande y, por último, a Marco Antonio y a la reina egipcia Cleopatra. En el proceso desmanteló la República, adoptó el nuevo nombre de Augusto y pasó a convertirse en el gobernante único de un imperio que abarcaba todo el...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...