GENGHIS KHAN - EL CONQUISTADOR

Primer libro de la colección de compendios. Se trata de obras escritas con la voluntad de llegar a un público amplio, necesitado de ideas concisas y textos introductorios escritos en un lenguaje llano que prescinda de digresiones y largas peroratas y que trate los temas de mayor interés. Y pocos –o ninguno- lo es más que la Historia de España del siglo XX. Sobre ningún otro asunto se ha escrito tanto, ni debatido con más vehemencia. Un siglo de reyes y dictadores, de tradición y revolución, de experiencias democráticas y conflictos violentos, de ideologías enfrentadas y valores...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...

Although few people know its history, Philadelphia is the third-largest Puerto Rican community in the United States. Thousands have made el viaje, or the journey, from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia, beginning before 1898 and continuing today. Puerto Ricans came as political exiles, merchants, and workers and built vibrant everyday lives and community organizations. By the 1970s, the Puerto Rican community was strong and diverse. El Viaje is a photographic journey of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia, and it refers to a popular local radio program.