Cataluña, España y la madre que las parió

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As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial concluyó con la derrota de la Alemania nazi en mayo de 1945. Con su visión obstinada y fanática de la realidad, y dejando tras de sí un rastro de millones de muertos, Hitler condujo a su país al abismo.Algunas de las...

Si bien las disciplinas o los campos del conocimiento especializados son necesarios, es evidente que las "parcelas disciplinares" fragmentan y reducen los análisis a marcos de referencia limitados que dificultan el diálogo entre los académicos de distintas áreas, pues cada una de ellas opera con paradigmas, modelos y lenguajes propios. En la vida universitaria esta realidad se traduce en departamentos, programas académicos de formación y proyectos de investigación específicos. Por ello, en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de los Andes se quiere propiciar la...