Nacido en 1795 en la California hispana, Diego de la Vega está atrapado entre dos mundos. Su padre es militar convertido en próspero hacendado, su madre es guerrera indigĕna y su abuela materna es la sabia chamán de su tribu. Del primero, Diego aprende las virtudes de un hidalgo, mientras su madre y su abuela lo inician en las tradiciones indigĕna. Desde la niñez se da cuenta de las injusticias que soportan los indios a mano de los colonos europeos....

Authoritative, Compelling, provocative: internationally respected historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto introduces you to the key historical and philosophical notions that have shaped our world since the dawn of civilization. Over 175 of the world's most pivotal ideas are crystallized and clearly explained -- from cannibalism to zen, from time to the unconscious, from logic to chaos theory. The author's wide-ranging and unashamedly personal analysis...

Traza la historia de la región de los Grandes Lagos de África del Este, proporcionando información sobre el primer establecimiento humano de la región, la formación de reinos alrededor de las fuentes de los Nueve, y el impacto que tuvieron los colonizadores en la región.

Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference after having a child by French officer Jean-Baptiste, Éliane's...

Learn about the history and inventions of the ancient Mayas as well as hands-on building projects with step-by-step instructions to make a loom and cloth, a Maya child's toy, and a musical gord.

Provides a history of the people of Mexico, from the Olmecs, the first to leave a record of their culture, to the Mayas and the Aztecs.

This period drama sets the tumultuous on-again, off-again affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the second Earl of Essex against Essex's powerful ambition to assume the throne of England.

In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.