The Improbable Conquest

This compilation of more than 500 common verbs will help beginners and advanced students alike. Each page focuses on an individual verb, presenting full conjugations of multiple tenses, plus sentences that illustrate usage.

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...

¡El arte produce inquietud, la ciencia tranquiliza!, dice el pintor Georges Braque (1882-1963), refiriéndose al arte contemporáneo. Ambas sensaciones le están esperando al lector cuando recorra las páginas de esta antología. Sentirá que la historia se levanta de la página y se hace vida con el arte del peiodismo literario.Las más de doscientas ilustraciones le harán sentir que ese tiempo ha pasado, los hechos vuelven a dormir en la historia en tranquilizadoras conclusiones científicas. Va a ser una experiencia irrepetible para el lector, que previamente dispone de dos estudios...

Egipto es una estrecha franja de terreno fertilizado por el Nilo, en el que se desarrollaron gran cantidad de estilos y periodos absolutamente deslumbrantes. Aquí tenemos una breve colección de obras de todo tipo que puede acercarnos a contemplar sus resultados y reflexionar sobre una de las primeras culturas humanas de la historia.

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