Download or read book Viriathus written by Luis Silva and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged as a leader after the treacherous massacre of the existing tribal chieftains and soon proved himself a gifted and audacious commander. Relying on hit and run guerrilla tactics, he inflicted repeated humiliating reverses upon the theoretically superior Roman forces, uniting a number of tribes in resistance to the invader and stalling their efforts at conquest and pacification for eight years. Still unbeaten in the field, he was only overcome when the Romans resorted to bribing some of his own men to assassinate him (though they reneged on the agreed payment, claiming they did not reward traitors!). Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched and accessible account. Portuguese by birth, the author draws on Portuguese research and perspectives that will be refreshing to English-language scholars and his own military experience also informs his analysis of events. What emerges is a stirring account of defiance, heroic resistance against the odds and, ultimately, treachery and tragedy.
Download or read book Octavio Paz written by Roberto Sánchez Benítez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Octavio Paz: Ontology and Surrealism discusses poet Octavio Paz (1914–1998), one of Mexico´s most controversial intellectuals. Over several decades, Paz has been celebrated for his impact on literature and culture as a poet as well as an essayist, and he is recognized as a great thinker and as a student of German ontology and phenomenology. Roberto Sanchez Benitez analyzes in detail Paz’s training within the European philosophical thinking of the twentieth century, as well as in the artistic avant-garde, to illustrate the way in which philosophical, anthropological, linguistic, sociological, literary, and artistic proposals enriched his work and Mexican culture during the post-revolutionary period. Sanchez Benitez posits that Paz moved from a phenomenological ontology to a historicism of the human condition, wherein morality, politics, and the arts all reside in an ideological context where dogmatisms where impose in the face of a lack of internal criticism. This book explores the themes of the poetic act that Paz associated with his ontological and surrealist readings, leading up to when they were transformed by his experience in India and the assimilation of Eastern philosophies, along with going through a set of Western proposals relating to love, eroticism, and art. Scholars of literature, philosophy, Latin American Studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.
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Download or read book La Casa del Loco written by Carlos Ballesteros Rayo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier Castelblanco, llega al colegio La Mayéutica de Sócrates para desempeñarse como profesor de filosofía, alli conoce a Don Antonio, rector y dueño del colegio, quien supuestamente habla con los animales temas relacionadas con la concepción mitológica del mundo. El profesor Castelblanco, es realmente un guerrillero, infiltrado allí para realizar un trabajo de inteligencia en el municipio de Jamundí que lo conduzca a ejecutar un secuestro masivo. El itinerario que desarrolla para lograr el objetivo presenta un cariz alentador, su careta le permite penetrar en lugares insospechados. No obstante, como ocurre con toda acción peligrosa, los obstáculos aparecen en el camino, y él como responsable del operativo, tiene la difícil tarea de superar esas dificultades y reservar su "As bajo la manga" hasta la instancia decisiva. ¿Ganará la partida...? La Casa del Loco, nos muestra el conflicto armado en Colombia, y algunas facetas del accionar humano: la estratagema, la esperanza y la pasión.
Download or read book Los Enigmas Y Profundidades de La Verdad En La Biblia written by Gamaliel Estudillo Rodriguez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EN BUSCA DEL PENSAMIENTO PERDIDO written by YURI ZAMBRANO and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ser neurona de la corteza cerebral, no es fácil. Son las células más evolucionadas en todas las especies generadas en el universo, en millones de años. Durante el desarrollo realizan una migración sin precedentes, cruzando las vastas selvas del sistema nervioso, construyendo sofisticadas redes neuronales, semejando edificios de seis niveles y generando tantas posibilidades de comunicación, como estrellas en el firmamento. Con su actividad en milivoltios de luces infinitas y liberando sustancias químicas como juegos pirotécnicos, estas neuronas son capaces de producir imaginación y pensamientos cada 20 milisegundos. Y con ello, conciben puentes, obras de arte, mundos nuevos, computadoras y hasta sueños. ¡Déjese llevar en esta nave! Viaje a través del pensamiento de los legendarios frenólogos de hace siglos, hasta llegar a descubrir, por usted mismo, cómo el cerebro hace juicios, toma decisiones, o genera una imagen mental.
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Download or read book The Lusitanian War written by Luis M. Silva and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Second Punic War in 202 B.C. when the Carthaginians were finally ousted from Iberia, Rome thought that they were now in control of the region. Soon, however, they found themselves pitted against an unexpected foe: the native Iberio-Celts, the Lusitanians. With one occupier gone, the Lusitanians took the opportunity to oppose their replacement, the Romans, in an effort to establish their own nation. Led by the charismatic Viriathus, whose example instilled the same kind of fury and devotion as the future Celtic warrior queen Boudica, the Lusitanians began a bitter war with the Romans in 155 B.C. that would rage on and off for the next twenty-five years. Despite their military advantage, the Romans could not at first defeat the Lusitanians, so they offered a peace treaty. A large number of Lusitanians and their key leaders arrived at the designated meeting point, only to be massacred. Viriathus managed to escape the deadly trap and rallied his people to continue the fight. Knowing that they did not have the numbers of trained soldiers to oppose the Roman Army, Viriathus developed a guerrilla campaign of hit-and-run tactics and attrition. After years of stalemate, the Romans once again sued for peace. Following a short truce, however, the war resumed but the Romans still could not subdue the Lusitanians. Finally, they resorted to paying assassins to do what their army could not: kill Viriathus. With his death, the Lusitanian resistance collapsed and Rome secured Iberia as a province of the empire. Based on classical sources and Portuguese and Spanish language archival material, The Lusitanian War: Viriathus the Iberian Against Rome is the first booklength study of this fascinating leader and the important campaign he waged. His style of warfare had a profound influence on future Roman Army tactics when fighting native troops.
Download or read book Enigmas y misterios de la Historia written by Carlos Javier Taranilla de la Varga and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Un libro divulgador de esos aspectos que tocan a misterios y secretos de la historia humana, a través de más de cien casos que demuestran cómo, pese a la idea de que en la historia prima lo inteligible sobre lo oscuro y confuso, resulta que tales aspectos brumosos son los que, a fin de cuentas, van determinando la sus-tancia profunda de nuestra memoria, o desmemoria, colectiva. A una documentación precisa se une la clara y bien desarrollada exposición, que procura aportar al enigma la mayor cantidad posible de datos, sin que a veces falte una sutil mirada irónica.» Del Prólogo de José María Merino, de la Real Academia Española Tras los Grandes mitos y leyendas de la Historia, Carlos Taranilla de la Varga nos vuelve a sorprender con esta obra donde se recogen los grandes enigmas y misterios de la Historia que desde tiempos ancestrales, hasta la época contemporánea, han despertado el interés en nuestro imaginario colectivo. Desde los grandes enigmas que encierran los textos bíblicos, como el Arca de Noé, la torre de Babel, el Arca de la Alianza, las tinieblas del Gólgota o la numerología bíblica, hasta las muertes más desconcertantes como la de Tutankhamón, Nefertiti o Julio César hasta las de los Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe o Bruce Lee, de las que en la actualidad siguen vertiéndose regueros de tinta, con las más increíbles teorías sobre sus trágicos finales. Un libro ameno y riguroso que se adentra en grandes hallazgos arqueológicos, sorprendentes enigmas escondidos tras obras de arte como las colosales cabezas olmecas, el cadáver acéfalo de Goya, La Pesadilla de Füssli o los lugares más intrigantes como los de la leyenda del laberinto de Cnossos, la gran pirámide de Keóps, las estatuas de la isla de Pascua o el triángulo de las Bermudas. Un recorrido extenso y detallado por todos los acontecimientos, lugares y personajes que han mantenido en vilo a la humanidad a lo largo de la Historia.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Download or read book The Lead Books of Granada written by E. Drayson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. This book evaluates the cultural status and importance of these polyvalent, ambiguous artefacts which embody many of the dualities and paradoxes inherent in the racial and religious dilemmas of Early Modern Spain. Using the words of key individuals, and set against the background of conflict between Spanish Christians and Moriscos in the late fifteen-hundreds, The Lead Books of Granada tells a story of resilient resistance and creative ingenuity in the face of impossibly powerful negative forces, a resistance embodied by a small group of courageous, idealistic men who lived a double life in Granada just before the expulsion of the Moriscos.
Download or read book In the Footsteps of the Masters written by Antonella Cagnolati and published by tab edizioni. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains twenty-one interviews with those who are unanimously considered the greatest pioneers in the scientific field of the History of Education, having opened new avenues of investigation and promoted works of considerable magnitude and depth, which have since become treasured assets for the entire scientific community. Each interview covers their biography and academic careers, highlighting not only their successes, but also the difficulties they encountered in the workplace. From the pages emerge useful hints and tips for those who today are venturing into the world of History of Education research, alongside the enthusiasm and curiosity that have unfailingly distinguished the work of each of these pioneers, in whose footsteps we continue to walk.
Download or read book Los grandes misterios de la historia written by Canal de Historia and published by DEBOLSILLO. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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