Héroes y villanos

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

La guerra - El coste humano de la guerra - Destrucción en Kuwait e Iraq - Los efectos de la guerra en el medio ambiente natural - La guerra moderna - Las leyes del conflicto armado y la protección del medio ambiente - La conducta Iraquí y las leyes internacionales.

Nacido en Alejandría hacia el año 95 d.C., APIANO compuso su obra, ciertamente singular, bajo el título genérico de «Historia romana». Su relato, estructurado no de acuerdo con un criterio cronológico, sino en torno a los diferentes pueblos y países que las legiones romanas fueron conquistando, abarcaba desde los comienzos de la historia de Roma hasta el acceso al poder de Vespasiano. De los veinticuatro libros de que constaba la obra, sólo se nos han transmitido, casi íntegramente, once, entre ellos los dos recogidos en este volumen, traducidos, prologados y anotados por Fco....

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