ROBERT ANDERSON

Apariciones y desapariciones de todo tiempo y lugar.

Una entretenida y documentada biografía ilustrada de Salvador Dalí que estudia su vida, desde su infancia hasta los últimos días de su vida, y hace un análisis de sus amigos íntimos, del surrealismo, de Gala y su matrimonio y vida con ella, de la influencia que la guerra civil española y la segunda guerra mundial tuvieron en su obra, asi como su extraordinario su legado artistico.Se incluyen reproducciones de sus obras en gran formato, asi como listados de los museos que albergan su obra.

The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago. According to its foreword, the publication was designed to be "a new statement of the fundamentals of Christianity." However, its contents reflect a concern with certain theological innovations related to liberal Christianity, especially biblical higher criticism. It is widely considered to be the foundation of modern Christian fundamentalism. The essays were written by sixty-four different authors, representing most of the major Protestant Christian denominations. It was mailed free of charge to ministers, missionaries, professors of theology, YMCA and YWCA secretaries, Sunday school superintendents, and other Protestant religious workers in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Over three million volumes (250,000 sets) were sent out.

On a calm summer evening in 1896, villagers along the northeastern coast of Japan felt a faint, slow tremor. Because the shaking was so weak, no one panicked or fled to higher ground. What they did not know was that a massive magnitude 8.5 earthquake had just ruptured deep within the Japan Trench.This was a rare "tsunami earthquake"a seismic event that generates very little ground shaking but displaces a catastrophic amount of ocean water. Thirty-five minutes later, without any warning sirens or receding tides, a terrifying ninety-foot wall of black water smashed into the Sanriku coast, obliterating dozens of villages and killing over 22,000 people instantly.This historical deep-dive explores the terrifying physics of subduction zones. We examine the harrowing survival accounts, the immediate aftermath of the total coastal erasure, and how this specific disaster fundamentally birthed the modern scientific study of seismology and tsunami defense architecture in Japan.Face the ultimate terror of the ocean. Understand how the deadliest waves in history arrive without ever announcing their presence.