Soldados de Fortuna

A vision of the main empires that have occurred in history, from Egypt to the United States of America. A multitude of maps and illustrations that will help us understand Byzantium, the Chinese and Mongolian empires, the different caliphates, the pre-Columbian empires of America, the Spanish Empire, and more.

El ensayo que se traduce en este volumen, La etica de la autenticidad, segun el titulo de la edicion norteamericana, o El malestar de la modernidad, segun reza la primera version canadiense, es el ultimo libro publicado por el filosofo canadiense, es el ultimo libro publicado por el filosofo canadiense Charles Taylor 1931. y puede ser presentado como una culminacion de su obra mas extensa, Sources of the Self. The Making of Modern Identity. El trabajo de Taylor, profesor de filosofia en la Universidad de McGill, es exponente de una perspectiva hermeneutica que se encamina a la critica social...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Se suele afirmar que la sinceridad es la mejor norma de conducta, pero la historia -por no hablar de la política, los negocios o los medios de comunicación- parece sugerirnos otra cosa. Desde las épocas más remotas hasta la actualidad mas reciente, 20 grandes fraudes de la historia da un repaso a algunas de las historias fraudulentas más impresionantes de todos los tiempos: estafadores, charlatanes, falsificaciones, manipulaciones, estafas científicas y otras mentiras a gran escala sin olvidar las patrocinadas por gobiernos y grandes empresas. Un apasionante viaje hasta los límites...