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Michel Foucault (1926-1984) fue tal vez el mas influyente teorico independiente que emerge de la "transformacion estructuralista" posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y abre el campo teorico al posmodernismo. Mas que sus contemporaneos Roland Barthes y Ja

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

Las Memorias que aquí presentamos parecen suscribir una cierta idea de que la verdadera patria de un individuo se encontraría en la infancia en tanto espacio de construcción de la identidad y el arraigo. Para Héctor Orrego Matte, los "años de aprendizaje" grabaron una impronta que lo ha acompañado durante su larga vida y han trazado un itinerario moral en su existencia de adulto. Por estas páginas llenas de humor, afecto y sensible inteligencia, desfilan los pequeños y grandes acontecimientos -el relato de los veraneos familiares, el tiempo escolar, las amistades y el primer amor, los ...

Chronicles the life of Corrie, whose happy life in Holland is shattered when she is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, where she endured much suffering, but experienced God's love and help in unbearable situations. (Biography)