Author: Luis Silva Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473826896 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged as a leader after the treacherous massacre of the existing tribal chieftains and soon proved himself a gifted and audacious commander. Relying on hit and run guerrilla tactics, he inflicted repeated humiliating reverses upon the theoretically superior Roman forces, uniting a number of tribes in resistance to the invader and stalling their efforts at conquest and pacification for eight years. Still unbeaten in the field, he was only overcome when the Romans resorted to bribing some of his own men to assassinate him (though they reneged on the agreed payment, claiming they did not reward traitors!). Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched and accessible account. Portuguese by birth, the author draws on Portuguese research and perspectives that will be refreshing to English-language scholars and his own military experience also informs his analysis of events. What emerges is a stirring account of defiance, heroic resistance against the odds and, ultimately, treachery and tragedy.
Author: Roberto Sánchez Benítez Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793610320 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 223
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Octavio Paz: Ontology and Surrealism discusses poet Octavio Paz (1914–1998), one of Mexico´s most controversial intellectuals. Over several decades, Paz has been celebrated for his impact on literature and culture as a poet as well as an essayist, and he is recognized as a great thinker and as a student of German ontology and phenomenology. Roberto Sanchez Benitez analyzes in detail Paz’s training within the European philosophical thinking of the twentieth century, as well as in the artistic avant-garde, to illustrate the way in which philosophical, anthropological, linguistic, sociological, literary, and artistic proposals enriched his work and Mexican culture during the post-revolutionary period. Sanchez Benitez posits that Paz moved from a phenomenological ontology to a historicism of the human condition, wherein morality, politics, and the arts all reside in an ideological context where dogmatisms where impose in the face of a lack of internal criticism. This book explores the themes of the poetic act that Paz associated with his ontological and surrealist readings, leading up to when they were transformed by his experience in India and the assimilation of Eastern philosophies, along with going through a set of Western proposals relating to love, eroticism, and art. Scholars of literature, philosophy, Latin American Studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.
Author: Carlos Ballesteros Rayo Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105619869 Category : Fiction Languages : es Pages : 178
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Javier Castelblanco, llega al colegio La Mayéutica de Sócrates para desempeñarse como profesor de filosofía, alli conoce a Don Antonio, rector y dueño del colegio, quien supuestamente habla con los animales temas relacionadas con la concepción mitológica del mundo. El profesor Castelblanco, es realmente un guerrillero, infiltrado allí para realizar un trabajo de inteligencia en el municipio de Jamundí que lo conduzca a ejecutar un secuestro masivo. El itinerario que desarrolla para lograr el objetivo presenta un cariz alentador, su careta le permite penetrar en lugares insospechados. No obstante, como ocurre con toda acción peligrosa, los obstáculos aparecen en el camino, y él como responsable del operativo, tiene la difícil tarea de superar esas dificultades y reservar su "As bajo la manga" hasta la instancia decisiva. ¿Ganará la partida...? La Casa del Loco, nos muestra el conflicto armado en Colombia, y algunas facetas del accionar humano: la estratagema, la esperanza y la pasión.
Author: YURI ZAMBRANO Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291718338 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 154
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Ser neurona de la corteza cerebral, no es fácil. Son las células más evolucionadas en todas las especies generadas en el universo, en millones de años. Durante el desarrollo realizan una migración sin precedentes, cruzando las vastas selvas del sistema nervioso, construyendo sofisticadas redes neuronales, semejando edificios de seis niveles y generando tantas posibilidades de comunicación, como estrellas en el firmamento. Con su actividad en milivoltios de luces infinitas y liberando sustancias químicas como juegos pirotécnicos, estas neuronas son capaces de producir imaginación y pensamientos cada 20 milisegundos. Y con ello, conciben puentes, obras de arte, mundos nuevos, computadoras y hasta sueños. ¡Déjese llevar en esta nave! Viaje a través del pensamiento de los legendarios frenólogos de hace siglos, hasta llegar a descubrir, por usted mismo, cómo el cerebro hace juicios, toma decisiones, o genera una imagen mental.
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