Resultados para "Dem Bones" en Historia

"La historia la escriben los vencedores", sentenció el escritor inglés George Orwell. Esto bien lo saben los mapuches. ¿Cómo se entiende si no que un pueblo guerrero en el siglo dieciséis, diplomático en el diecisiete, rico y ganadero en el dieciocho y diecinueve, pasara a ser más tarde en la historia oficial chileno-argentina una tropa de "salvajes y bárbaros"?

Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.

Desde las tablas de arcilla hasta el papel que inventaron los chinos, desde la encuadernación de los antiguos romanos hasta la imprenta de Gutenberg, sin olvidar los libros escritos a mano, las tintas de oro, las páginas envenenadas y mucho más… Un viaje fascinante por la historia de los libros y la imprenta.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, first published in 1895, is a classic psychology text that is both thorough and easy to understand. It is considered seminal work in the study of crowd psychology. In it, Le Bon covers many aspects of crowd psychology and writes that crowd psychology exhibits "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason".

China Bones is the story of a young American Marine in China through the Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and the ultimate fall of Shanghai, to the Communists in 1949. Zack Cameron finds love and fortune in Shanghai, loses his fortune, and survives a brutal Japanese prison camp, only to face even more danger. In a race against time, Zack is forced to put together a desperate treasure hunt amid the confusion of civil war and the Communist takeover of China.

A historic western that opens in 1873, a time when recession is forcing thousands westwards to recoup their fortunes. The West is tough, brutal and the Indian is the enemy. But when a white woman is raped, it is a half-breed Cheyenne who comes to the rescue. From the author of Jake and Upland Passage.

In The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind, social theorist Gustave Le Bon gives historical insight into the political thinking of his era while offering timeless social commentary. Le Bon challenges the listener to contemplate how individual ideas change - often to a destructive end - when employed in a setting of groupthink. As technology and communications innovations make group formation easy and accessible for better or for worse, this book's message is certainly one that will not be lost in the crowd.