Acuérdate, María

Acuérdate, María, novela de la última hora de vida de la Diva, donde quien nos habla es la persona que poco a poco se despoja del personaje, desnudando su memoria, recorriendo sus recuerdos, ajustando su historia sin prejuicios, sin miedo del juicio y la desnudez. Es la otra María quien está en estas páginas, es ella quien se confiesa. La que aparece cuando se apagan las luces del set y en la intimidad se mira al espejo, a veces sin reconocerse. Ahora, al final de sus horas, recuperando a la niña extraviada en su soledad, en la oscuridad de sus silencios los recuerdos de quien fue, de...

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...

"Excellent study of the Dominican Order in the 16th century. Avoids a chronological account giving the reader instead a methodical analysis of the institutional, social, and economic organization of the order. To the prototypes of the urban and the rural convents, Pita Moreda adds a balanced assessment of the missionary activities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

Bajo las nubes de México es un libro de viajes, una crónica caleidoscópica, breve y exhaustiva que nos descubre imágenes y asociaciones inéditas en paisajes tan visitados como la mítica Veracruz y figuras tan populares como los mariachi así como temas sociales de actualidad, como la guerrilla zapatista y aventuras personales.