Resultados para "Homer" en Mundial

A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista.

De animales a dioses, augura un mundo no tan lejano en el cual nos veremos enfrentados a una nueva serie de retos. Homo Deus explora los proyectos, los sueños y las pesadillas que irán moldeando el siglo XXI - desde superar la muerte hasta la creación de la inteligencia artificial. Cuando tu smartphone te conozca mejor de lo que te conoces a ti mismo, ¿seguirás escogiendo tu trabajo, a tu pareja y a tu presidente?

El ser humano es la única especie consciente de su historia. La historia está en todas partes. En la cartelera del cine, en las novelas más vendidas, en las series de moda, en los videojuegos más conocidos, e incluso en las acaloradas charlas de sobremesa y discusiones estrambóticas de Twitter. Desde el mítico "lo leí en un libro" hasta "cualquier tiempo pasado fue mejor", pasando por "lo ha dicho la tele", Ad Absurdum rastrea los pasos de la historia a pie de calle, busca los problemas que la suelen acompañar y abre cientos de puertas al lector para comprenderla mejor.

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of “home.”

A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, heard of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators - men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. It worked.

For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly disappears from our high school and university curricula.

We follow in the footsteps of the intrepid British traveller as they explore the world both at home and abroad, told entirely in the words of those who were there. In two volumes: The Traveller at Home Gazette and The Traveller Abroad Gazette. Performed by an outstanding company of award-winning actors including Dame Eileen Atkins, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, Richard Johnson OBE, Hugh Laurie CBE, Michael Maloney, Geoffrey Palmer OBE, Michael Pennington, Prunella Scales CBE, Samuel West, John Wood CBE and full supporting cast.

The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year for Americans of that era both in terms of United States casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.

La voce di Davide Paolini, scrittore e giornalista del Sole 24ore, ci conduce nei nuovi itinerari del gusto per scoprire come evolvono i piatti e i prodotti della tradizione. In ogni episodio ci immergiamo nel territorio e andiamo a incontrare gli artigiani e gli chef che ci svelano i segreti dei loro prodotti. "Il Gastronauta on the road" racconta il mondo del cibo attraverso le voci dei suoi protagonisti. In un viaggio lungo dodici episodi, scopriremo i luoghi e le persone che rendono l'Italia uno straordinario territorio del gusto.