Bøger af Greg Castillo

┬┐Te gustar├¡a conocer los casos m├ís misteriosos de desapariciones que han dejado sin explicaci├│n alguna a la humanidad? Entonces sigue leyendo.."Se encuentra frente al gran misterio... Al que hace temblar a la humanidad desde su origen: lo desconocido." - Gast├│n Leroux.El ser humano siempre ha intentado encontrar una respuesta a todo aquello que no puede explicar y las teor├¡as que se han generado en torno a las siguientes historias son una fuerte prueba de ello. Personas comunes, ni├▒os e incluso celebridades han desaparecido de la faz de la tierra sin raz├│n alguna y bajo circunstancias sumamente extra├▒as. En este libro descubrir├ís:-Una colecci├│n de los casos m├ís misteriosos de desapariciones de la historia.-El escalofriante caso de la desaparici├│n de los ni├▒os Beaumont.-Los misteriosos casos de Dorothy Arnold, Ambrose Small y otros.-Los intentos fallidos para encontrar a los desaparecidos.-Y mucho m├ís..Prep├írate para llenarte de incertidumbre y realizar tus propias teor├¡as acerca de lo que pudo haber pasado, porque est├ís por comenzar un viaje que te permitir├í ser tu propio/a detective, y unir las piezas y pruebas que, a lo largo de los a├▒os, han surgido de estas inquietantes historias. No lo pienses m├ís y explora hoy mismo varios de los casos m├ís misteriosos de la historia. ┬íHaz clic en comprar ya y descubre m├ís de estos enigmas!

Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon squared off on the merits of their respective economic systems. One of the signature events of the cold war, the impromptu Kitchen Debate has been widely viewed as the opening skirmish in a propaganda war over which superpower could provide a better standard of living for its citizens. However, as Greg Castillo shows in Cold War on the Home Front, this debate and the American National Exhibition itself were, in fact, the culmination of a decade-long ideological battle fought with refrigerators, televisions, living room suites, and prefab homes.The first in-depth history of how domestic environments were exploited to promote the superiority of either capitalism or socialism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Cold War on the Home Front reveals the tactics used by the American government to seduce citizens of the Soviet bloc with state-of-the-art consumer goods and the reactions of the Communist Party. Beginning in 1950, the U.S. State Department sponsored home expositions in West Berlin that were specifically designed to attract residents of East Berlin, featuring dream homes with modernist furnishings that presented an idealized vision of the lifestyle enjoyed by the consumer-citizen in the West. In response, Party authorities in East Germany staged socialist home expositions intended to evoke the domestic ideal of a cultured proletariat.Castillo closely follows the course of this escalating rivalry between competing consumer cultures through the 1950s, concluding that the Soviet bloc''s inability to make good on the claim that it could emulate goods and living standards offered by the West was a contributing factor in communism''s eventual demise. Using a mosaic of sources ranging from recently declassified government documents to homemaking journals and popular fiction, Cold War on the Home Front contributes an engaging new perspective on midcentury modernist style and its political uses at the dawn of the cold war.