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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

John Chadwick ofrece un panorama de la Grecia micenica que articula la informacion procedente de los testimonios documentales con la vision que proporcionan las fuentes arqueologicas. La obra estudia la geografia, la poblacion, la estructura social, el sistema administrativo, las concepciones religiosas, las formas de produccion en la agricultura, la situacion de la artesania, la industria, el comercio y las tecnicas militares en el mundo micenico, para concluir con un analisis de las circunstancias que determinaron su decadencia y extincion.

Invocado por todos sus gobiernos, hecho suyo por los más diversos y hasta contrapuestos sectores, Simón Bolívar atraviesa la historia venezolana. Es una sombra bajo la que todos quieren estar, una imagen que cada uno quiere a su lado. Tanto como sus ideas y sus batallas, la épica tejida a su alrededor es una inspiración que todos evocan y un premio que todos codician. Este libro es un recorrido por varias estaciones del culto bolivariano que analiza, a través de episodios concretos, ese fenómeno ya anunciado por otros autores de entidad, como Germán Carrera Damas y Luis Castro Leiva....