Curazao y Venezuela: 20 testimonios

Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century explorers and travellers to South America brought back various ideas on the Maya ruins they had visited and/or discovered. This study traces the history of these theories and the controversy that ensued over contemporary understanding of the Mayan civilisation and in particular the meaning and function of their cities and territories, Mayan architecture, site distribution, spatial arrangement, settlement hierarchies, and their inscriptions. This history is divided into six chronological phases from 1760 to 1990 as it looks at the development of ideas...

The fact that a journalist of the written press, an editor for more than thirty years, suddenly starts writing with pictures, taking photos, can only mean two things: either he is gone mad or the world has been so reversed that it is not recognizable anymore. Jordi Panyella (Barcelona, 1966) is still writing in the newspaper El Punt Avui, as he always has, but the world has now changed radically. And specially in his city, following the brutal impact of the crisis of the Covid-19. Through a story woven with images taken during two months of confinement, Barcelona 2020 unfolds the every day...

Historia de la España de Isabel II. Los pueblos que empuñan las armas y derraman generosamente su sangre en pro de una causa noble y santa, tienen derecho a que las generaciones presentes y futuras conozcan las causas que obligaron a sus padres y antepasados a demostrar su entusiasmo y sellarlo con su vida.

El choque entre Occidente y Oriente Medio es un problema de elevada complejidad que no sólo afecta al “espíritu de la época” en la manifestación de conflictos bélicos, inestabilidad macroeconómica, flujos migratorios, crisis y transiciones energéticas, reorganización política mundial, resurgimiento de posiciones ideológicas extremistas y fundamentalismos religiosos. También pone de relieve la necesidad de revisar el concepto humano de “conciencia”. Hashim Cabrera, intelectual de referencia en el debate del estado contemporáneo del Islam, desarrolla en este ensayo una...