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In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, these minds began to realize that classical physics was about to give way to quantum theory, a seismic shift in our history and how we understand not just our world, but the universe.

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where...

Felipe II no fue el hombre frío y cerebral que transmite la historiografía tradicional. Por el contrario, fue un joven galante y un padre entrañable. Supo de amores prohibidos y de matrimonios por razón de estado. Por el recorrido de este audiolibro desfilan las cuatro esposas del monarca, María Manuela de Portugal, María Tudor, Isabel de Valois y Ana de Austria; amantes como Isabel de Osorio o Eufrasia Guzmán; sus hijas Catalina Micaela o Isabel Clara Eugenia y el gran interrogante: la princesa de Éboli.