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Un apasionante libro que nos descubre las claves sobre el Cónclave Vaticano, la Guardia Suiza, los Illuminati, la antimateria, los secretos de Bernini y Galileo y otros apasionantes enigmas.

The contributions to this volume are concerned with the Roman law of antiquity in its broadest sense, covering both private and public law from the Roman Republic to the Byzantine era, including legal papyrology. They also examine the reception of Roman law in Western Europe and its colonies (specifically the Dutch East Indies) from the Middle Ages to the promulgation of the German Burgerliche Gesetzbuch in 1900. They reflect the wide interests of Professor Boudewijn Sirks, whom the volume honours on the occasion of his retirement and whose work and career have transcended frontiers and...

Esta novela de Lion Feuchtwanger, autor ya consagrado entre los lectores de habla española, es una apasionada historia de amor y violencia, ocurrida en el siglo XII, y que, a través de siglos, ha ocupado la imaginación de los lectores. Narra la pasión que el rey Alfonso VIII de Castilla sintió por la judía Raquel, hecho que registran las crónicas de su vbiznieto, el rey Alfonso X el Sabio. La acción transcurre en una época todavía en parte sumida en la barbarie, en la que el arrojo de aquellos nobles castellanos, fruto de una fe sin fisuras, y el ansia de matar, junto con su...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...