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Un universo increíble y vibrante, curioso y fascinante.410 páginas. Más de 700 ilustraciones originales, riquísimas en detalles. Una cuidada edición y, sobre todo, una selección temática inesperada y, sin duda, genial. Si nuestra civilizacion estuviera a punto de desaparecer, ¿como podriamos reconstruirla desde cero? De esta pregunta y de la extraordinaria creatividad del colectivo de artistas Hungry Minds nace The Book.The Book es una enciclopedia del saber ilustrada que relata los descubrimientos e inventos cruciales de la historia de la humanidad, acompañados de unas ilustraciones maravillosas. Desde la rueda hasta las hierbas medicinales, el submarino y la psicoterapia, sin olvidar el arte y la gastronomia, a lo largo de veintitres capitulos se exploran las conquistas materiales e inmateriales que han permitido evolucionar a nuestra especie. Inspirado en algunos de los libros mas misteriosos e imaginativos de la historia como el legendario Manuscrito Voynich del siglo xv y la Summa Technologiae de Stanisaw Lem, sus fascinantes ilustraciones combinan el estilo retrofuturista con dibujos sumamente detallados que remiten a laminas renacentistas y a los codices, invitandonos a reflexionar y conversar sobre los infinitos caminos que hemos recorrido y los que se abren ante nosotros.Para soñadores, pensadores y personas infinitamente curiosas. Este es el viaje de la humanidad.LA HISTORIA DE UN PROYECTO UNICO:En 2020, un equipo de creativos, artistas y diseñadores repartidos por los cuatro rincones del mundo y que opera como colectivo bajo el nombre de Hungry Minds, lanza una campaña de financiacion en Kickstarter para costear la fase inicial de redaccion y diseño de un libro. Su objetivo es de 8.000 dolares. La acogida es inaudita: superan los 2.300.000 dolares. The Book se convierte asi en el tercer proyecto editorial de mayor exito en la plataforma de crowdfunding. A partir de ese momento, el equipo se consolida: al proyecto se unen cientificos y profesores universitarios expertos en distintas materias, ademas de redactores publicitarios, editores y correctores, dibujantes e ilustradores que crearan esta obra unica en el panorama editorial actual.EL TALENTO DE CONVERTIR LO ORDINARIO EN EXTRAORDINARIO. LAS MENTES DETRAS DE ESTE PROYECTO:Timur Kadyrov, Seva Batischev y Artur Stelmakh, fundadores de Hungry Minds, comparten una vision: transformar objetos cotidianos en autenticos artefactos magicos que sorprendan y despierten nuestra curiosidad. Su enfoque disruptivo y su apuesta por la calidad y la originalidad han convertido a Hungry Minds en una referencia mundial, gracias a obras que combinan el conocimiento, la belleza artistica y el placer de descubrir.

Esta es la historia del encuentro entre dos mundos: Oriente y Occidente conectados por una red de caminos conocida como la Ruta de la Seda, por la que circularon la ambición, las riquezas, el poder y, sobre todo, el conocimiento.Todo comenzo con un puñado de objetos. Valiosas posesiones que pasaban de mano en mano y recorrian miles de kilometros a traves de oceanos, desiertos y montañas. Su inmenso valor no dependia solo de su belleza o de la pericia necesaria para elaborarlas; aquellas mercancias exoticas poseian la capacidad de hacer soñar a los que las contemplaban con tierras lejanas y parajes desconocidos, preguntandose como serian las gentes capaces de fabricar esas maravillas. Fue asi como Oriente y Occidente comenzaron a buscarse.

Si algo ha marcado la historia de la humanidad como una constante, a veces terrible, a veces propicia, pero siempre ingobernable, esta ha sido el clima. Desde la Prehistoria hasta nuestros días, comprender y, sobre todo, adaptarse a ese desafio, el del cambio climatico, ha venido determinando la delgada linea roja que separan la prosperidad o la mera supervivencia del colapso, la muerte y la desaparicion. Un desafio al que hubieron de hacer frente los neandertales, atenazados por el frio extremo en la epoca glacial; los nomadas pastores del Sahara verde y las gentes del Calcolitico iberico; los egipcios constructores de piramides, ante el cambiante curso del Nilo; los visigodos y bizantinos en la Alta Edad Media, cuando los volcanes taparon el cielo; los comanches cazadores de bisontes y la pequeña edad del hielo A lo largo y ancho de las epocas y los continentes, sociedades muy diversas han debido afrontar el reto del dios incomprendido, el clima, que, con sus continuas, y a veces catastroficas, mudanzas, ponia a prueba la resiliencia de pueblos e imperios.Volcanes, corrientes marinas, vientos dominantes, insolacion solar, inclinacion del eje terrestre, cubierta vegetal, orografia, masas de hielo, sobreexplotacion de recursos, contaminacion atmosferica Son tantos y tan variables los factores que intervienen en la estabilidad o ruptura del equilibrio climatico, que no es de extrañar que el clima se mostrara como un enigma ante la atemorizada y perpleja mirada de nuestros antepasados. Por eso mismo su experiencia se ha tornado preciosa para nosotros, pues, como ellos, nos toca ahora enfrentar al dios incomprendido. Nuestro exito o fracaso como civilizacion dependera, en no poca medida, de nuestros esfuerzos por comprenderlo y de nuestra capacidad para adaptarnos al actual cambio climatico.Francisco Jimenez Espejo, geoquimico experto en paleoclima y que ha viajado desde la Antartida hasta Siberia, y Jose Soto Chica, historiador de mirada amplia y horizonte global, han sumado fuerzas y conocimientos para ofrecer esta novedosa y fascinante perspectiva sobre el desafio del clima a lo largo de la historia humana. Un libro de historia escrito para los retos del presente.

En mayo de 2024, la Fuerza Aérea israelí y la División de Inteligencia recibieron el Premio de Defensa Israelí 2024 por el éxito de su 'fábrica de objetivos', que reconocía el uso innovador de 'algoritmos avanzados e inteligencia artificial' para identificar blancos humanos. El genocidio de Israel en Gaza es el primero de la historia perpetrado con ayuda de la IA. Pero tambien quienes lo investigan tienen acceso a las herramientas mas avanzadas. Con ellas, siguiendo metodologias como las de la arquitectura forense, documentan la violencia desproporcionada. No solo en la Gaza del presente, sino en otros territorios y otras epocas, en todo el mundo. Como recuerda Eyal Weizman, antes del exterminio de seis millones de personas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Alemania ejecuto un primer genocidio en Namibia en la primera decada del siglo xx. Desde las matanzas de armenios por parte de las tropas turcas, durante la decada siguiente, hasta el genocidio de la minoria rohinya en la Birmania del siglo xxi, pasando por Ruanda, los intentos de eliminacion de pueblos enteros han formado parte de la logica colonial. Este libro colectivo, prologado y editado por Julia Nueno Guitart -que forma parte del equipo de la prestigiosa agencia de investigacion Forensic Architecture- incluye un espectro de colaboraciones que analizan esa historia apoyandose en las tecnologias mas recientes. Su intencion es politica: redefinir lo que entendemos por genocidio a la luz de los procesos coloniales y expandir el derecho internacional a partir del caso de Gaza. Para ello reune voces autorizadas como Rabea Eghbariah, Joshua Abramson, Dima Srouji, Gregoire Chamayou o Marwa Fatatfa. E incluye, ademas de otros ensayos graficos, la investigacion visual Cartografia de un genocidio, por primera vez en español.

Un análisis profundo y oportuno sobre cómo el antisemitismo ha cambiado con el tiempo, con consecuencias inesperadas y preocupantes. ¿Qué queremos decir cuando hablamos de antisemitismo? Durante la

Accompanying the 4 part documentary series from multi award winning filmmaker James Bluemel It s been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space Since then only 676 people have followed him up there But now with huge technological advances bridging the gap between our planet and all that lies beyond that number is about to rise dramatically Once Upon a Time in Space is the human story of how we ve made it this far the remarkable achievements tragic losses left field experiments renegade characters and ever shifting powerplay and where we re about to go Featuring stunning full colour photography from both personal collections of astronauts and NASA s archives the human story of space is told through intimate and powerful testimony from the astronauts scientists engineers and space tourists who have lived it Looking ahead as we take the first steps towards becoming an interplanetary species Once Upon a Time in Space brings you closer to the incredible story of our next stage of evolution as the human species Life on Earth will never be the same again

In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events Now in its seventeenth year this new edition of the best selling series is a review of the year made up of the wry and astute observations of the unpublished Telegraph letter writers Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom wistful nostalgia and robust good sense of humour that characterise its correspondence and this volume contains yet more pearls of insight With an agenda as enticing as ever the seventeenth book in the bestselling Unpublished Letters series will prove once again that the Telegraph s readers still have a shrewd sense of what really matters

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red discover the incredible true story and page turning account of the 18th century slave ship often known as the Zong yet actually named the Zorg ironically meaning care that sparked the human rights campaign to end the slave trade Perfect for fans of David Grann s The Wager and The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides Remarkable riveting Adam Hochschild historian and bestselling author of King Leopold s Ghost and Bury the ChainsIn 1781 the Zorg set off from The Netherlands to West Africa and from there onto the Caribbean The fateful voyage would alter the course of history forever By the time its journey ends the Zorg would become the first undeniable argument against slavery When a series of unpredictable weather events and navigational errors led to the Zorg sailing off course and running low on supplies the ship s captain threw more than a hundred slaves overboard in order to save the crew and the most valuable slaves The ship s owners then claimed their loss on insurance a first for slaves who had not been killed due to insurrection or died of natural causes The insurers refused to pay due to the higher than usual mortality rate of the slaves on board leading to a trial which initially found

In this fully revised and updated edition of the best selling popular science book of the 21st century Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED Possibly the best scientific primer ever published Economist Truly impressive It s hard to imagine a better rough guide to science GuardianBill Bryson can t contain his curiosity about the world around him A Short History of Nearly Everything 2 0 is the result of his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization how we got from being nothing at all to what we are today Now fully updated to reflect the many scientific discoveries in the last twenty years since this book was first published it explains among much else why Pluto is no longer a planethow the number of moons in the solar system has more than doubled in 20 yearshow scientists used advances in genetics to discover previously unknown species of early humanswhy we still don t know what most of the universe is made ofhow the little Higgs boson transformed physicsThis journey through time and space will inform a new generation of readers young and old as well as those who read this book on first publication w

Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy s authority clarity or global vision Essential reading and a marvellous book Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race from the first atomic bomb to todayOn 16 July 1945 the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J Robert Oppenheimer Now I am become Death the Destroyer of Worlds While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a simmering and tense geopolitical landscape events like the Chernobyl disaster and near misses like the Cuban Missile Crisis showed that total destruction was only ever one malfunction mistake or miscommunication away Now as governments re arm their nuclear arsenals treaties designed to limit the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons fall away and nuclear weapons come increasingly within reach of non state actors we are on the brink of a renaissance of the nuclear industry In The Nuclear Age acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy paints an intricate picture of a world governed by fear From the first artificial splitting of the atom in 1917 and the race to create the first atomic bomb in World War II through the fraught arms race of the Cold War t

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST HISTORY BOOKS for 2024 Compelling Nichol has a terrific eye for detail an ability to blend tear jerking letters quotation and personal anecdotes into a rich thought provoking narrative Daily Telegraph Over one million British Empire soldiers were killed during the First World War More than a century later over half a million still have no known grave The scale of the fighting the catastrophic destruction the relentless military engagement and glutinous mud meant that many of the dead were never identified of often never recovered Names were left without bodies and bodies or fragments of bodies without names To help staunch the tide of national grief in the aftermath of the conflict an idea was born for a single Unknown Warrior representing all the missing to be brought from the battlefields and buried in Westminster Abbey alongside the nation s kings and queens Using diaries archives and interviews with the descendants of that generation and modern day experts Sunday Times bestselling author and former RAF Tornado navigator John Nichol draws on his own experience of combat and loss to shine light on this 100 year old story And in speaking to those who have lost lov

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKAs winter comes and the hours of darkness overtake the light we seek out warmth good food and good company But beneath the jollity and bright enchantment of the festive season there lurks a darker mood one that has found expression over the centuries in a host of strange and unsettling traditions and lore Here Sarah Clegg takes us on a journey through midwinter to explore the lesser known Christmas traditions from English mummers plays and Austrian Krampus runs to modern pagan rituals at Stonehenge and the night in Finland when a young girl is crowned with candles as St Lucy a martyred Christian girl who also appears as a witch leading a procession of the dead At wassails and hoodenings and winter gatherings attended by ghastly grinning horses snatching monsters and mysterious visitors we discover how these traditions originated and how they changed through the centuries and we ask ourselves if we can t keep the darkness entirely at bay might it be fun to let a little in

Cuando una sociedad se descubre capturada por la corrección política y la pulsión del pensamiento uniforme, libros como la Historia de los Heterodoxos Españoles se convierten en lectura imprescindible. Antologia de pensamiento critico y disidente, Menendez Pelayo nos brinda con esta obra, a la vez que una leccion de erudicion, la vision de una de las plumas mas influyentes de nuestra historiografia. En sus distintos capitulos encontraremos un amplio catalogo de inconformistas, herejes, misticos, reformadores y librepensadores españoles que desafiaron la tradicion dominante de su tiempo. Combinando sus ingentes conocimientos con un encendido analisis, Menendez Pelayo ofrece un mapa imprescindible de las corrientes heterodoxas que han acompañado la historia del pensamiento español y que aun hoy invitan a la reflexion.Calenda Libros presenta una seleccion de los textos mas significativos de la Historia de los Heterodoxos Españoles acompañada de un estudio introductorio a cargo del profesor Pedro Carlos Gonzalez Cuevas, que ilumina la relevancia de Menendez Pelayo en el debate ideologico y cultural de su tiempo. Cierra el volumen un epilogo de Gabriel Albiac, quien, desde su propia experiencia filosofica y politica, pone en dialogo las intuiciones del poligrafo santanderino con los dilemas intelectuales de nuestros dias.

Pocos mitos en la historia han generado tanta expectación, estudios y libros como el misterio de la Atlántida. Desde que Platón publico sus diálogos hace más de 2000 años, la Atlántida ha jugado un papel fundamental en la imaginacion de la Humanidad. Muchos libros sobre el mito se han escrito, muchas posibles localizaciones se han postulado, pero nuca se ha llegado a ninguna conclusion definitiva. ¿Mito o realidad? ¿Cuento, fabula o los lejanos ecos de una civilizacion perdida en la oscura niebla de la Historia? En este libro abordamos el tema desde una optica nueva, acorde a nuestros tiempos, donde manda la informacion de Internet. Al igual que han surgido herramientas potentisimas aplicada a la Arqueologia como pueden ser la Arqueastronomia, se pude realizar un estudio retrospectivo utilizando y analizando toda la informacion que podemos encontrar en la red de redes. Con toda es informacion y aplicando el metodo cientifico y el logos, un principio ordenador del universo, una ley universal que rige todas las cosas que es capaz de poder aplicarse a todas las investigaciones que se quieran emprender, nace este libro, un ensayo que en compañia del lector intentara desvelar uno de los mayores mitos de la humanidad: la Atlantida, su realidad y su posible ubicacion.

From the bestselling author of FEMINA a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political nation building ends In LEGENDA bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how the lives of women have been co opted by those intent on crafting national identities Their names are well known and summaries of their achievements have been recited in classrooms for decades but medieval women like Joan of Arc Lady Godiva and Isabella of Castile have been misrepresented their stories twisted and weaponised Meanwhile ground breaking 18th and 19th century women who blazed a trail through revolutionary Europe have been forgotten their legacies too easily dismissed or ignored Questioning established narratives and searching for the real women behind the legends Ramirez interrogates what defines a nation and who gets to build it shining a light on how history is so often hijacked to serve the ideological and political interests of the present PRAISE FOR JANINA RAMIREZ Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so called Dark Ages and reveals a vibrant world awash with colour and character DAN SNOW host of History Hit Skillfully brings out from the shadows the lives of w

Survivor Rebel Conspirator Mother and grandmother of kings Margaret Beaufort was one of the most remarkable and influential women of the Middle Ages Born the daughter of the Duke of Somerset into a century of conflict and a descendant of Edward III she was married at twelve a mother orphan and widow at thirteen and rode the vicissitudes of the Wars of the Roses and two further marriages to see her only son Henry ascend the throne of England as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty She helped to bring about the marriage of Henry VII to Elizabeth of York a union that helped heal the wounds of a bitterly divided nation During Henry s reign she exerted considerable influence at court and played a part in the upbringing of her grandson the future Henry VIII She was a lifelong artistic patron and supporter of academia In old age she founded a professorship of divinity and two colleges at Cambridge University By the time of her death in June 1509 she had outlived by two months the son whose birth fifty two years previously had so nearly killed her Lauren Johnson s life of Margaret Beaufort brings its subject vividly and memorably to life She delineates the decades of political upheaval that were the backdrop to her long and resilient career and highli

Budapest autumn 1943 Four years into the war Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal home to spies and agents of every kind But Budapest remains at peace an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary The riverside cafes are crowded and the city s famed cultural life still thrives All that comes to an end in March 1944 when the Nazis invade By the summer Allied bombers are pounding its grand boulevards and historic squares Budapest s surviving Jewish population has been forcibly relocated to cramped overcrowded Yellow Star houses By late December the city is surrounded and under siege from the Red Army Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians die in the savage siege as Budapest collapses into anarchy Hungarian death squads roam the streets as the city s Jews are forced into ghettos Russian artillery pounds the city into smoking rubble as starving residents hack chunks of meat from dead frozen horses Using newly uncovered diaries documents archival material and interviews with the last survivors Adam LeBor brilliantly recreates life and death in the wartime city the catastrophic fate of half of its

By 1942 Churchill faced a vastly different war than the one he d inherited from Neville Chamberlain Britain was no longer alone the Soviets were now an unlikely ally in the East and Pearl Harbor had finally pushed America into action Yet the scale of violence remained unchanged On average seven British men women and children were killed every hour of the Second World War The country would never be the same again In Advance Britannia historian Alan Allport reveals the war as it was lived from the battlefields to the ration books in the War Ministry and in the air raid shelters Mixing social history with dramatic storytelling this is a definitive account of the war that reshaped the world

Renowned historian Alistair Moffat traces the windswept story of the North Sea throughout British history and examines how it has shaped who we are and how we see ourselves

Chronicles sugar s history exploring lesser known stories while revealing its role in such developments as the Industrial Revolution World War II and the fast food era