Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Feb 19, 2010

World Digital Library.

¡AVE!.

We want to share with yo this great notice.


IT HAS BEEN OPENED IN INTERNET THE WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY...., THE WDL.

A GREAT PRESENT FROM THE UNESCO FOR MANKIND!






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The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
  • Promote international and intercultural understanding;
  • Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
  • Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
  • Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries. 
The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.

Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Many more languages are represented in the actual books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.

The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations.
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"Posside sapientiam, quia auro melior est"
(To have wisdom is better than own gold)

LUDUS GLADIATORIUM VULCANUM

Feb 11, 2009

Macro, Cato y Escipión.

¡AVE! Os saluda Póstumo.

Hace unas pocas semanas he acabado de leer “Centurión”, el octavo libro de Simon Scarrow sobre las aventuras de los ya famosos Macro y Cato.


Tras terminar de leerlo, afirmé una vez mas de que el autor había dejado (como suele decirse) el pabellón bien alto. Ya que gracias a su gran conocimiento de las legiones en la época del Emperador Claudio, y a sus dos personajes, había logrado otra vez que los lectores nos adentrásemos una vez mas el la dura vida de las Legiones Romanas de ese periodo.

Hoy, tras terminar de leer “Africanus” de Santiago Posteguillo he tenido que afirmar, de que ya hay otro estandarte ondeando a su misma altura.



Hace tiempo, ya pudimos leer algo sobre la vida de este ilustre Escipión, en “la aventura de los Romanos en Hispania” de Juan Antonio Cebrian.


Pero he de decir que “Africanus” me ha dejado totalmente fascinado, ya que no solo se centra en las campañas militares de Escipión, si no que gracias al resto de personajes y sus vivencias de tan variada índole, podemos adentrarnos profundamente en la vida en aquella época.

Además, si has visitado Cartagena (como es mi caso), y has visto los restos arqueológicos de Cartago Nova, su puerto, los restos de la muralla Púnica, y mapas de la época, el acercamiento a la toma de Qart Hadasht es total.



Por ello recomiendo a todos los que nos gusta la Historia Romana su lectura, ya que no les defraudará. Y por suerte, ya podemos tener la segunda parte del libro, y la tercera está en proceso de creación.