John Edwards

Flying the Big Jets presents the facts that people want to know about the world of the big jets. How does a large aircraft fly? How long is the take-off run at maximum weight? How much fuel is carried on a transatlantic flight? How do the radios work? What aircraft maintenance is required? How often are the tyres changed? What is the life style of a pilot? The answers to these and a thousand other questions are given in sufficient detail to satisfy the most inquisitive of readers. Chapter by chapter the reader is taken gently from the basics of the big jets to the sophistication of the glass cockpit in preparation for the pilots seat on a Boeing 777 flight from London to Boston. Flying the Big Jets is a comprehensive book that reveals as never before the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot. "Written by a pilot with over 15,000 flying hours on heavy jets during a 30-year career in commercial aviation, this title is a comprehensive text book taking the reader into the glass cockpit of a Boeing 777. It is also a guide to the principles of flight, the art of navigation and meteorology, and an appreciation of the role played by Air Traffic Control in modern airline operations. An absorbing read for that next long-haul flight." WINGSPAN

La historia de la Inqusición ha avanzado en las últimas décadas, desvaneciendo mitos, por una parte, pero reafirmando, por otra, la terrible verdad de unas persecuciones que llevaron a dos millares de seres humanos a la hoguera y sometieron a otros muchos a torturas y abusos. Se necesitaba una nueva evaluación que pusiera al alcance del lector no especializado lo que hoy sabemos, y esto es lo que ha hecho en este espléndido libro John Edwards, investigador de la Universidad de Oxford e hispanista de reconocido prestigio, que nos invita a compartir una nueva visión de una institución que marcó profundamente la historia de España.

Nueva entrega de la Historia de España (vol. 9 ) dirigida por J. Lynch, en esta ocasión dedicada al reinado de los Reyes Católicos, que nos ofrece una visió

The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language? How have languages, large and small, been used to spread religious ideas? Why have particular religious and linguistic 'markers' been so central, singly or in combination, to the ways in which we think about ourselves and others? Using a rich variety of examples, the book highlights the linkages among languages, dialects and identities, with special attention given to religious, ethnic and national allegiances.

bien podría ser la reacción de cualquier lector. En este año de la conmemoración del quinto centenario de la muerte de la reina católica presentamos...una semblanza del personaje desde algunas perspectivas menos conocidas como su vida familiar, su afán por llegar al trono, su religiosidad personal, sus actitudes hacia los judíos y musulmanes, su cultura y también los aspectosmás sombríos de su reputación. El libro se cierra con un último capítulo sobre el controvertido camino hacia la santidad.