Cary Grant

The pages of Fidel Castro: "Birán to Cinco Palmas" cover the most notable moments in the first thirty years of life of the leader of the Cuban Revolution. From his childhood to the historical reencounter with his brother Raúl, shortly after their return to Cuba aboard the cabin cruiser Granma, the gradual development of the thinking and actions of this exceptional figure can be appreciated.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this painful time, but embraced the singular opportunities it offered. A moving personal narrative...

La obra de Ludwig Wittgenstein es el producto de un pensamiento riguroso y de una imaginacin brillante, y slo puede ser comprendida en todo su alcance analizando la relacin entre su filosofa y su vida. Wittgenstein naci en 1889, hijo de una de las ms acaudaladas y cultas familias de Viena, de origen judo pero convertidos al catolicismo, y cuyos miembros eran triunfadores o suicidas; en esta compleja matriz familiar podemos rastrear el origen de su intensa y siempre presente preocupacin por problemas ticos, espirituales y culturales.Su trayectoria como filsofo comienza tras su encuentro con...