The Art of War has been very simply defined as «the art which enables any commander to worst the forces opposed to him.» This book shows the evolution of European warfare throughout the middle ages from Roman legions to the first use of fire arms: The Transition from Roman to Medieval Forms in War – A.D. 378–582. The Early Middle Ages – A.D. 476–1066–81. The Byzantines and their Enemies – A.D. 582–1071. The Supremacy of Feudal Cavalry – A.D ...
The first half of the 20th century was the bloodiest period in human history. The first armed conflict that announced the period of death and destruction was the Russo-Japanese War. At the time it was the greatest military struggle the world has known. This book deals with the causes of the war as well as all the major military campaigns including the operations in the Liaodong Peninsula, Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the naval operations in ...
Este libro recoge ensayos y estudios sobre diferentes aspectos y momentos de la obra del filosofo cordobes Gustavo Ortiz (1941-2014), realizados por profesores-investigadores de la Universidad Catolica de Cordoba, que tuvieron diversos vinculos con Ortiz.Los estudios agudizan indagaciones criticas sobre su legado filosofico, que van desde la cuestion del sentido y la religion hasta la politica y el liberacionismo latinoamericano en nuestra moder ...
"The War with Mexico" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith. The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered Mexican territory since the government did not recognize the treaty signed by Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna when he was a p ...
"The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof" in 2 volumes is an account of observations several Spanish travelers in China published by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza in 1586. An English translation by Robert Parke appeared in 1588 and was reprinted by the Hakluyt Society and edited by Sir George Thomas Staunton. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed ...
"Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian Elizabeth Sarah Kite. Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a French polymath who rose in French society and became influential in the court of Louis XV as an inventor and music teacher. He made a number of important business and social contacts, and played various roles as a diplomat and spy. An early French supporter of A ...
El libro es una contribucion al estudio de la figura de Teresa de Jesus, al psicoanalisis de la religion y a la historia de la espiritualidad cristiana. Nos adentra en la dinamica psiquica inconsciente de Teresa de Jesus. Nos abre al mundo de los logros personales mas acabados de la Santa desde ese impresionante trabajo interior que llevo a cabo a lo largo de su vida. Por otra parte, por tratarse de un texto que versa de modo tan explicito sobre ...
A partir de las raices fenomenologicas que introdujeron en esta corriente filosofica el problema del cuerpo y la constitucion del mundo, el autor se aboca al estudio de lo que fuera la tesis doctoral de Ricoeur (Filosofia de la voluntad I), y sus primeras consideraciones sobre la relacion entre carne y conciencia. Desde alli, elabora lineas de reflexion que recuperan la evolucion de la relacion cuerpo-naturaleza en las subsiguientes obras del au ...
"Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican" in 2 volumes is a historical, geographical, political, statistical and social account of that country from the period of the invasion by the Spaniards to the middle of 19th century, written by a former secretary of the United States legation to Mexico Brantz Mayer. The book features, inter alia, a detailed view of the ancient Aztec Empire and civilization, a historical sketch of the Mexican-American W ...
