Robert Curley is currently the chair of the Departamento de Estudios Socio Urbanos, an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. His interests include cultural history, secularization and religious practice, and the Mexican revolution.
20 Ebooks por Robert Curley
Britannica Educational Publishing: Korean War and The Vietnam War
In the 1950s and 1960s and on into the 1970s, the United States was involved in two wars fought far from home-one in aid of South Korea against the neighboring Communist North Korea, and a second …
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€30.77
Britannica Educational Publishing: Britannica Guide to Inventions That Changed the Modern World
By their very nature, inventions change the status quo. The innovations highlighted in this book have done so in a most dramatic, memorable, or effective fashion. Through engaging narrative and …
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€28.38
Britannica Educational Publishing: New Thinking About Pollution
As the world’s resources continue to suffer from overuse and the effects of human activity, understanding the causes and effects of pollution is critical to preserving the land, water, and air that …
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€28.33
Britannica Educational Publishing: Renewable and Alternative Energy
With growing populations across the world consuming Earth’s limited oil and natural gas reserves, the environmental and economic toll of energy dependence becomes an increasingly global concern. The …
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€22.05
Britannica Educational Publishing: Fossil Fuels
Accounting for more than 90 percent of the world’s energy supply, fossil fuels-coal, petroleum, and natural gas-are not an infinite resource. Formed by the lengthy decomposition of organic matter, …
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€22.19
Britannica Educational Publishing: Computing
Humans have long attempted to mechanize calculations-mathematical and otherwise-and build problem-solving machines. Yet it was not until the 20th century, with the advent of the computer, that such …
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€22.05
Britannica Educational Publishing: Architects of the Information Age
The rapid development of computer technology since the mid-20th century would not have even been imaginable without the brainpower of individuals dedicated to innovation and turning the seemingly …
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€22.47
Britannica Educational Publishing: Breakthroughs in Telephone Technology
In an age where near-instantaneous communication is available through all manners of portable and pocket-sized devices, it is easy to overlook the genesis of telecommunication instrumentation-the …
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€22.21
Britannica Educational Publishing: Complete History of Aviation
Humans have long dreamt of communing with the skies and acquiring the ability to fly. The first experiments with balloon flight through the development of the Concorde and everything in between, …
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€24.43
Britannica Educational Publishing: Complete History of Railroads
Traversing landscapes and expediting travel, railroads have allowed us to conquer once elusive frontiers to improve both transportation and commerce. Railroad design has changed remarkably little in …
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€24.67
Britannica Educational Publishing: Complete History of Ships and Boats
Even as airlines provide faster means of travel, ships and boats remain as important as ever in transporting passengers and cargo across the world’s bodies of water. While ship design has become …
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€24.47
Britannica Educational Publishing: Issues in Cyberspace
The technological phenomenon known as the Internet has revolutionized the way people work, play, consume, socialize-essentially the way humans interact in general. Along with unparalleled access to …
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€22.13
Britannica Educational Publishing: Science of War
War, while often gruesome and devastating, can also be viewed as a science or art, involving the translation of theory into practice. Even as weapons grow in sophistication over time, war has always …
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€22.04
Britannica Educational Publishing: Weapons of Mass Destruction
With their potential to wreak massive or total devastation, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons have dramatically escalated the stakes of war. As stockpiles of such weapons continue to grow …
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€22.22
Britannica Educational Publishing: War on Land
Long before they took to the sea and air, warring factions engaged in land-based conflicts that involved close-range combat with rudimentary defenses and weapons. As civilizations have advanced, so …
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€22.26
Britannica Educational Publishing: War at Sea and in the Air
Although conflict was once restricted to land, the introduction of warships and planes eventually expanded the theater of war to include both water and sky. New combat strategies emerged with these …
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€22.35
Britannica Educational Publishing: Explorers of the Renaissance
The allure of far-off lands, the promise of untapped resources, and a hunger for building global empires prompted Renaissance explorers to journey into the unknown. Battling harsh seafaring …
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€24.18
Britannica Educational Publishing: Scientists and Inventors of the Renaissance
The ingenuity evidenced during the Renaissance was not just limited to the fine arts. A number of scientists and inventors also made astonishing breakthroughs in astronomy, medicine, physics, and …
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€24.42
Robert Curley: Citizens and Believers
This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution. It goes beyond conventional studies of church-state conflict to focus on Catholics as political subjects whose …
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