Resultados para "Homer" en Mundial

El ser humano es la única especie consciente de su historia. La historia está en todas partes. En la cartelera del cine, en las novelas más vendidas, en las series de moda, en los videojuegos más conocidos, e incluso en las acaloradas charlas de sobremesa y discusiones estrambóticas de Twitter. Desde el mítico "lo leí en un libro" hasta "cualquier tiempo pasado fue mejor", pasando por "lo ha dicho la tele", Ad Absurdum rastrea los pasos de la historia a pie de calle, busca los problemas que la suelen acompañar y abre cientos de puertas al lector para comprenderla mejor.

A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia, más personas mueren por obesidad que por pasar hambre y hay más probabilidades de quitarse la vida que de morir en un conflicto bélico o un atentado terrorista.

De animales a dioses, augura un mundo no tan lejano en el cual nos veremos enfrentados a una nueva serie de retos. Homo Deus explora los proyectos, los sueños y las pesadillas que irán moldeando el siglo XXI - desde superar la muerte hasta la creación de la inteligencia artificial. Cuando tu smartphone te conozca mejor de lo que te conoces a ti mismo, ¿seguirás escogiendo tu trabajo, a tu pareja y a tu presidente?

In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Lauren–designed environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of “home.”

Most scientists believe the evolution of humans has a history as long as life itself. Anatomically modern humans and all other life that has existed on the planet first came about from the single-celled microorganisms that emerged approximately 4 billion years ago. Through the processes of mutation and natural selection, all forms of life developed, and this continuous lineage of life makes it difficult to say precisely when one species completely separates from another.

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century...

In Going Home, Raja Shehadeh, the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks, takes us on a series of journeys around his hometown of Ramallah. Set in a single day - the day that happens to be the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank - the audiobook is a powerful and moving record and chronicle of the changing face of his city.

For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly disappears from our high school and university curricula.

A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, heard of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators - men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. It worked.

We follow in the footsteps of the intrepid British traveller as they explore the world both at home and abroad, told entirely in the words of those who were there. In two volumes: The Traveller at Home Gazette and The Traveller Abroad Gazette. Performed by an outstanding company of award-winning actors including Dame Eileen Atkins, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, Richard Johnson OBE, Hugh Laurie CBE, Michael Maloney, Geoffrey Palmer OBE, Michael Pennington, Prunella Scales CBE, Samuel West, John Wood CBE and full supporting cast.

Brought to you by Penguin. When does a bandit become a monarch? When does a gang become a government? And is organised crime at the heart of every modern state? On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all...

Homo Sapiens tells the story of the species from its earliest evolutions through the development of the first civilizations up to the industrial and information revolutions that have shaped the modern age. William Potter's thrilling new account asks us to reconsider our traditional notions of history by examining the power of the environment, the influence of language, the ideas that have transformed society, the power of transformative technology, and much, much more.

The evolutionary path from the original primates to modern man is a long one and has taken many twists and turns, but naturally, as the fossil record grows, scientists gain a more complete understanding of our own mental and physical history in terms of genetics and anatomy. However, the correct order and relationships of the various specimen types are difficult to pin down.

The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year for Americans of that era both in terms of United States casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.

At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who...

Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor. In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost - and now needs to recover. He's looking for the truth about his mysterious great-grandfather, Thomas O'Brien, a self-proclaimed hero of the "splendid little war" who left a legacy of glorious, painful lies.

Rusland in de moderne tijd maakte een aantal rigoureuze transities door. Van een overwegend agrarisch Tsarenrijk naar een geïndustrialiseerde Socialistische heilstaat. Van Stalins totalitaire staat naar de meer open politiek van Chroetsjov. En uiteindelijk van de paranoïde Breshnev naar de Perestroika van Gorbatsjov. Henk Kern laat het college beginnen in de Tsarentijd in de 19e eeuw en toont hoe Rusland zich als Soviet-Unie ontwikkelt tot de tweede wereldmacht tijdens de Koude Oorlog.

In zijn college over de historische Mohammed reconstrueert arabist Hans Jansen het leven van de profeet aan de hand van overgeleverde verhalen. Wie was Mohammed eigenlijk? Hoe betrouwbaar zijn de bronnen en in welk historisch kader moeten we ze begrijpen? Met kennis van de Arabische wereld, een heldere stijl en een juiste dosis gezond verstand en humor, geeft Hans Jansen een uiterst boeiend college over het begin van de islam.

Hoe voerden de oude Grieken oorlog? Op welke wijze organiseerde Alexander de Grote de lange veldtochten, de bevoorrading van zijn soldaten en welke middelen had hij om zijn opgebouwde rijk te verdedigen? Hoe organiseerden de Romeinen hun strategische communicatie en hoezeer verschilde die van de Grieken? De legers van de Grieken en Romeinen bestonden vaak uit huursoldaten en waren meestal lang onderweg. Henk Singor verhaalt over de militaire geschiedenis van het archaïsche Griekenland tot en met het Romeinse Keizerrijk, met oog voor details van het soldatenleven.

In de Romeinse samenleving speelden recht en retorica een grote rol. Met een selectie van aansprekende onderwerpen uit de Romeinse beschavingsgeschiedenis laat Jan Lokin zien hoezeer het klassieke Rome ons Westerse denken over maatschappij, politiek en recht heeft vormgegeven. Zo behandeld hij o.a. de strijd om gelijkberechtiging tussen patriciërs en plebejers, de titanenstrijd tussen Cicero en Clodius, de Romeinse retorica en de overdracht van het Romeinse keizerschap.