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El libro más importante de la historiografía nacional de los últimos 25 añosEste ensayo de la premio nacional de Historia nos ofrece un exhaustivo análisis sobre el proceso de secularización vivido en Chile durante el siglo XIX. Con el estilo ensayistico que caracteriza toda su obra, Sol Serrano narra el paso a paso de la lucha iniciada por la jerarquia eclesiastica tanto por mantener la "Republica catolica" como por preservar los derechos que el liberalismo podia darle para defenderse en el espacio publico. La destacada historiadora chilena construye asi el relato de una fascinante paradoja: como la privatizacion del catolicismo -su alejamiento forzoso del Estado- constituyo su mejor publicidad en la esfera publica moderna.Momentos fundamentales de la relacion civico-religiosa como la famosa "cuestion del sacristan" (1856), los debates en torno a la constitucion de 1833, la delicada sucesion del obispo Joaquin Larrain Gandarillas, hasta la separacion de Iglesia y Estado en 1925, junto a notables descripciones como la que realiza con pluma magistral del incendio de la iglesia de la Compañia (1863), construyen una obra esencial para indagar y comprender uno de los aspectos mas relevantes de la historia de Chile.

Todo lo que siempre quisiste saber sobre volar Todo lo que siempre has querido saber del mundo de la aviación contado por el piloto más conocido de EspañaEn ¡Bienvenidos a bordo! Le escribe su comandante, Ramon Valles piloto de aviacion con miles de horas de vuelo nos invita a acompañarlo en un viaje fascinante. Desde sus primeros vuelos en avioneta hasta su ascenso como comandante, pasando por experiencias inolvidables, pasajeros que marcaron su vida y momentos criticos en el aire, este libro es una carta abierta a quienes sienten curiosidad, admiracion o incluso temor por volar.Con un estilo cercano, inspirador y lleno de anecdotas reales, Ramon nos revela lo que nunca se ve desde la ventanilla: los engranajes de un vuelo, los secretos de la seguridad aerea, y todo aquello que pasa en la cabina mientras tu lees, duermes o miras por la ventanilla. Porque volar es mucho mas que un trayecto: es una historia, una vocacion y una experiencia a que todos nos maravilla, nos inquieta o nos inspira.

Zaragoza ha sido de los sedetanos, del Senado y Pueblo Romanos, del rey de Toledo, del califa de Damasco y del de Córdoba, de sí misma, de la Casa de Aragón, de la de Austria, de Borbón, de Bonaparte, de España y siempre de sus habitantes, que la han construido, vivido y luchado por ella de mil maneras. La ciudad inmortal ha sobrevivido a dos milenios de viento hostil, a la invasion del mayor ejercito de su epoca sin ser plaza fuerte, a los impulsos por destruir su patrimonio y a los enfrentamientos internos. Del Palacio de la Aljaferia a la Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, el historiador local Daniel Aquillue recorre la apasionante historia de una de las ciudades señeras de España para firmar una biografia muy personal, que entremezcla eventos y cuestiones transversales, grandes personajes con las vidas de la gente de a pie y la memoria con lo material. La gran aventura de una urbe que fue clave en la Hispania romana, deseada y disputada taifa del norte, corazon de una corona que domino el Mediterraneo, una Florencia española hecha de ladrillo, perdicion y ruina ante el paso de Napoleon y hoy, polo economico estrategico y tranquilo al pie del rio Ebro.

An acclaimed Syrian journalist crafts a vital portrait of October 7, 2023, and its aftermath through the harrowing yet life-affirming accounts of 26 Palestinians.Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, asking each of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. In Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Lifea title adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombingYazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged 13 to 65, who have witnessed what history may remember as one of the most savage military offensives of our time.Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable losshomes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliteratedand many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their experiences, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate.More than a record of horrors for posterity, this breathtaking collection testifies to the power of education and writing, which remind us of our common humanity.

Join an adventurous and charismatic independent journalist (perhaps you know him from YouTube) on a journey through some of the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons weve got to love this place and one another.Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a houseboat deep in the Louisiana bayou?Peter Santenello hadnt either, until after years spent traveling through eighty-five countries and living abroad, he realized the most unfamiliar territory was often his own American backyard. And so, with a camera in hand and an open mind, he began visiting communities across the country that most media overlooks or misrepresents, from tiny towns in Appalachia to the streets of East LA.What began as curiosity becameone story at a timean intimate, revealing portrait of America today. From road trips and chance encounters to dinners shared in locals homes, Your Fellow Americans captures what makes this country so dynamic, so resilient, and most of all, so very human. Because what Peter discovered on his travels wasnt a nation torn in two. He found something more complex and more powerful: people who want to be seen, who are willing to listen, and who still believe were more alike than we are different.With humor, exuberance, and reverence for the human spirit, Your Fellow Americans is a celebration of the United States that exists far beyond the headlinesand an invitation to sit down, open up, and rediscover the soul of this place that we call home.

A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters by the award-winning author of Strangers to OurselvesYou Wont Get Free Of It tells the stories of mothers and daughters searching for each other (and for themselves). With uncanny depth of perception, Aviv explores the complexity of this relationship in seven essays, six originally published in the New Yorker and reconceived for this intimate, revelatory book. I wrote some of these stories feeling, existentially, like a daughter, and now I have returned to them with a different identification, Aviv writes. It was as if I had failed to see the drama that was on the mothers side, too her particular longings and humiliations and needs.Aviv writes about one mother searching for her vanished daughter; another who sacrifices herself for her daughters by working as a nanny for other parents children. In the final story, a daughters traumatic experience is erased by her family, only to be recast by her mother the writer Alice Munro in stories celebrated around the world. You Wont Get Free Of It is an astonishing investigation of the competing dynamics of knowing and unknowing, recognition and refusal, that shape our most foundational relationship. Illuminating ineffable registers of human experience, Aviv asks piercing questions about how disowned knowledge forms and deforms families and lives.

Philip Gourevitchs unforgettable modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwandas Tutsi minority: close to a million people murdered by their neighbours in one hundred days. Now Gourevitch brings us a staggeringly vivid and intimate exploration of how killers and survivors live together again in the same communities, grappling with seemingly impossible burdens of memory and forgetting, denial and confession, vengefulness and forgiveness. A fiercely beautiful literary reckoning, You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know is the culmination of twenty-five years of reporting on the aftermath of the slaughter. The book takes its title from a stark Rwandan adage that speaks to the uneasy trade-offs that reconciliation after near-annihilation demands. Since the genocide, Rwanda has engaged in the most ambitious and sweeping process of accountability ever undertaken by any society. "Truth Heals" was the slogan. But truth also wounds. And truth is always contested. As Gourevitch returns repeatedly over the decades to the same families in one small hillside village, their accounts of killing and surviving, and of the life after, inform and enlarge one another, becoming ever more complex and more charged with significance for us all. These stories are at once as essential and as extreme as classical myths, illuminating the ways that we seek, individually and collectively, to negotiate our irreparable pasts in pursuit of a more habitable future. This deeply moving book continuously invites us - as only great writing can - to think, and to think again.

This book tells the big story of the city of York by exploring the small remnants of past lives. It will tell ancient stories that are a daily part of the modern city, such as the Tudor staircase still in use in an office building, and the medieval gargoyles watching people go by from their perches on the eaves of coffee shops.Yorks story unfolds through six sections. Protection explores how the city has survived centuries of threats through resilient architecture and infrastructure. Passageways examines its snickelways and spiritual routes, both physical and symbolic. Looking Down and Looking Up reveal hidden treasures often missed, from newly uncovered cobblestones to discoveries of ancient settlements and lost churches. Past Lives highlights influential figures whose legacies still shape the city, including the posthumous fame of Guy Fawkes. Years of Welcome turns to modern York, celebrating its pubs, cafes, and communal spaces. All of this rests on deep historical context reaching back to the citys beginnings.Join us for a journey where its all about the little things!

The Weimar republic and the Third Reich loom large in German history, but what happened afterwards? How did a nation that had so recently been the centre of the biggest international war to date, led by the perpetrators of the greatest crimes history has ever scene, transform itself into the modern, progressive nation we know today?Wunderland reveals the transformations that took place, economically and culturally, from 1955-1967 as the nation came to grips with the legacy of WW2 and found ways to redefine itself as a democratic society where democracy, wellbeing and the freedom of expression could thrive again.In a world rocked by the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world, Wunderland is a powerful reminder that when these regimes fall, they can leave in their wake something even better: an opportunity for rebirth, reconciliation and unprecedented growth.

The inspiring true story of the self-made, Bronx-born portraitist who overcame all odds to become the most followed artist on social media worldwidefeaturing never-before-seen drawings of the people and places that made him who he is.Devon Rodriguez talks to strangers: his subway sketches and person-on-the-street interviews have earned him millions of followers. His hyperrealistic work demonstrates the power of portraiture to help us see ourselves and each other. Hes a new-school influencer with old-school talent.Now, the celebrated Bronx-born artist turns his perspective inward. As a child, Rodriguez escaped into art to cope with devastating abuse. It sustained him, energized him and helped him stay out of trouble. This fascinating memoir is a twenty-first-century fable about a young man with a pencil, a phone, and a relentless drive to succeed.Instead of following the conventional route to art world prestige, he saw opportunity online, experimenting with sharing his work in bite-sized TikTok videos that went viral, making him one of the top influencers of his generation. An entrepreneur who makes art accessible to everyday people, hes succeeded without gallery representation or an MFA. Devon has now sketched over a thousand people. With this book, he delivers his most precise and moving portrait yet: of himself. Frank, profound, and occasionally hilarious, Work in Progress is motivational magic for the digital age.

If the witchfinders came to your town, who would you have believed and what would you have done?With the English civil wars raging in the background, Witchland reveals how economic uncertainty, religious extremism and deprivation created the ideal conditions for mass witch-hunting in Britain. Across the country, fear spread rapidly, and neighbours turned on one another in panic. Women and the poor were especially vulnerable, scapegoated by the powerful looking for someone to blame, and hundreds of witch trials across the country soon followed. The hysteria provided a handbook for similar trials to occur around the world, most famously just a few decades later in Salem. Moving from village to village, Professor Marion Gibson reveals how accusations grew out of everyday tensions poverty, grief, and resentment and how entire communities became involved in the persecution of the innocent. Drawing on newly uncovered historical records, this gripping historical account restores the voices of those accused of witchcraft. These were ordinary people, largely forgotten by history, along with their families and neighbours caught up in suspicion and moral panic.Both a powerful history and a warning from the past, Witchland is the captivating story of witchcraft, inequality and the violence that surfaces during times of political and economic upheaval.

A journey through Britains first National Park on its 75th anniversary On a spring day in 1932, 400 disgruntled ramblers embarked on a mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a plateau in the Peak District in northern England. Their aim? To establish a right to roam across the rugged landscape, against the wishes of wealthy landowners. The hikers were seeking respite from the smoky industrial centres of Manchester and Sheffield and eventually they got what they wanted. In 1951, the Peak District was established as Britains first national park. Home to striking dragon-back ridges of rock, vast expanses of peat, farms and villages, cloughs and caverns, the Peak is much more than the howling wilderness described by Daniel Defoe three centuries ago. With the 75th anniversary of the parks creation looming, how has this dramatic landscape fared since? Celebrated travel writer Tom Chesshyre hit the trails on a 363-mile ramble to find out and to celebrate this symbolic home of hiking. Wild Peaks follows winding paths, pausing at old inns and mountain huts, and along the way meeting a rich cast of landowners, farmers, historians, mountaineers, publicans, rangers, right-to-roamers, homeless travellers, mountain rescue members, mystics, dreamers and fellow hikers. Don your cagoule, grab a compass, and join Tom as he explores how the land has changed, and how we have too.

Learn all about the truly epic life of one of the most famous women rulers in history! Cleopatras legacy as a trailblazing leader and political strategist dazzles in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Cleopatra was born into a time when power struggles within her own kingdom of Egypt were magnified with the increasing dominance of Rome. As more and more kingdoms were conquered by the Roman Empire, Cleopatra faced challenges at home in Egypt. When her brother Ptolemy XIII stole the throne from her, Cleopatra knew she had to befriend Rome in order to protect Egypt. Working with Roman general Julius Caesar, she regained control of her empire and served her people well. After Caesars death, Cleopatra joined with his friend Mark Antony to ensure the preservation of Egypt.Cleopatra is remembered as the resourceful and charming leader of Egypt who helped the kingdom prosper and maintain power at a time when much of the Mediterranean was in turmoil.

From FBI: Most Wanteds Dylan McDermott and former FBI Special Agent Christopher Whitcomb, a revealing investigation into the disappearance of the Springfield Three, a cold case that has bewildered police officers, the FBI, and avid true crime followers for three decadesOn June 7, 1992, in Springfield, Missouri, Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter, her friend Stacy McCall, and Streeters mother, Sherrill Levitt, disappeared from Levitts residence without a trace. Police found the televisions on, clothing where it should be, and the family dog safely inside. There was no indication of forced entry, no evidence of assault or violent abduction. The familys cars were locked. The neighbors reported nothing.News spread quickly, with hypotheses about the "Springfield Three" discussed as fervently as the speculation over who killed JonBenet Ramsey just a few years later. Segments by Americas Most Wanted, 48 Hours, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and a People magazine article produced thousands of leads. A task force of FBI agents and police worked round the clock for months, resulting in more than 20,000 pages of forensics and analysis. Detectives interviewed a dozen persons of interest. And yet, more than thirty years after the disappearance, the case has never been solved.In White Pines and Stone, former FBI Special Agent Christopher Whitcomb and FBI: Most Wanteds Dylan McDermott draw on their own deeply personal connections to this caseas well as files only previously seen by law enforcement officersto reveal the chilling details, the suspects who have interested authorities over the years, and the newly discovered investigative breakthroughs they hope will lead them to the womens bodies in what they believe to be a forest of white pines and stone." Together, they will shed new light on an infamous case that has captured the publics attention like few others.

Learn about the fascinating history of Bears Ears and the Colorado Plateau in this illustrated chapter book that spans from the formation of buttes millions of years ago to today!Over 300 million years ago, the beautiful buttes of Bears Ears formed on the Colorado Plateau in what would one day become known as the Four Corners, which is where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. The first humans in this areathe Clovis peopleappeared 13,000 years ago. Since then, the Bears Ears region has been home to many important Indigenous groups, including the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Zuni Tribe, and Ute Indian Tribe. After centuries of their land being mistreated and vandalized, these five tribes came together and asked the United States government to protect the land of Bears Ears by making it a national monument. In 2016, their vision became a reality when President Barack Obama established Bears Ears National Monument, protecting 1.3 million acres of sacred land. Young adventurers, junior geologists, and future archaeologists will love this incredible book about the rich history of this special American landscape.

When the Pipers Play is a fascinating account of the bagpipe as an instrument of war, packed full of remarkable stories. Based on the author Patrick Kings award-winning films, the book combines historical research with exclusive interviews and traces the crucial role of the military piper from the Highlander at Culloden to the carnage of Waterloo and from the trenches of the Great War to the beaches of Normandy. The author reveals how the use of music in war, including drums, bugles and pipes, has for centuries controlled the battlefield. His analysis of the pipes ranges from regulating the soldiers day in camp to a role in wartime propaganda films and how the instrument remains the one primal element in the sophistication of modern warfare. The regimental piper is the real hero of this book. A must read for anyone who enjoys stories of courage and adventure.

One day I will look back and laugh, but not just yet. Harrys life had been stuck in neutral until he discovered Peggy lying in a field. It then promptly went into reverse. Is Peggy the romantic interest of this story or two tons of automotive scrap metal?Harrys subsequent restoration project takes us on a journey through a life that has more bumps than the A12 and a cast of eccentric characters who are caught up in the joy of attempting the impossible, just for the sheer love of it.This is the story of one mans attempt to restore an Austin 1100. Along the way it also becomes the story of one mans attempt to restore himself, and as anyone whos ever tried their hand at restoration knows, you cant rebuild something without taking it apart first.This book is for anyone who wants to follow their dream but has forgotten to take out breakdown insurance for it.

The panoramic story of the 1980s, exploring the triumphs and failures of the decade that shaped the 21st century more than any other, from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who witnessed the transformations firsthandIn January 1980, America seemed broken. Inflation raged. Interest rates topped 20 percent. Americans were held hostage in Iran. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with impunity. Japan was eating American manufacturing alive. Three networks controlled what Americans watched. China had been closed for 30 years.Ten years later, everything had changed. The economy was booming. The Soviet Empire was collapsing. American businesses were competitive again.In this immersive, character-driven narrative, Jonathan Kaufman lays bare the contending ideologiesand peoplewho battled for control of business, media and politics in the 1980s, shaping the way we live today. As Ronald Reagan and conservatives pummeled the Democratic party, as Jack Welch redefined leadership at Fortune 500 companies, and as deregulation spearheaded by Mark Fowler allowed television to become the hundreds of specialized and partisan channels we watch now, the groundwork was laid for our current economic and political conflicts. The decade also launched transformative social and political movements. Karen Nussbaum and Jane Fonda galvanized a struggling womens movement, Evan Wolfson spearheaded the gay communitys legal fight against a hostile government, and Barack Obama cut his teeth as a community organizer in Chicagoall building long-lasting movements whose success progressives can learn from today.From pivotal moments in board rooms and court rooms, to cultural touchstones like the birth of hip hop and of conservative talk radio, as well as the authors eyewitness experiences in Tiananmen Square and Prague, When America Roared is the riveting story of how the 1980s built the world we live in, for better and for worse. It is the decade that made usand the key to understanding where we go from here.

How did Zeus come to rule the sky? How did Poseidon become the god of the sea? Learn all about the myths and legends of Greek mythology in this dramatic history, featuring 16 pages of photos.Celebrate ancient Greek mythology and civilization, where Heracles performed his twelve heroic feats and Athena defended the acropolis as the goddess of war and wisdom. For centuries, these tales were at the center of Greek society and religion. The legends of Greek mythology have been retold around the world in stories like Ovids Heroides and Rick Riordans Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, influencing everything from ancient Roman culture to bestselling American novels of the twenty-first century. Including well-known tales of Medusa and Perseus, sirens, goddesses, and more, this book explores the vibrant stories that live on and inspire young readers to this day.