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The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes that came to be known posthumously as "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (The Disasters of War) are among Francisco Goya's most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya's model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to immortalize them in a series of etchings. The artist himself never saw the results. The etchings...
Ever had a great idea and thought, "Man, somebody needs to invent that?" Fantastic, because this book is going to show you how. Whether you're a novice inventor who's had an aha! moment or a serial inventor who's yet to successfully license a lucrative deal, the information between these pages is for you. It offers step-by-step instructions from initial concept to market, various tips and insights for each part of the process, and examples of patents, licensing agreements and non-disclosure documents. "Inventorpreneur" multi-millionaire Francisco Guerra is a serial inventor and entrepreneur whose legions of inventions are distributed globally. Particularly known for his inventions in the spe...
The author shows how not only the 'imported' diseases but also a series of economic and social factors played a role in the disastrous decline on the native populations in the Americas.