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From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Dr. Luciano Jaramillo is one of the most important Biblical scholars in the Spanish-speaking world. His multiple contributions in the field of Bible translation have demonstrated him to be one of the most distinguished and relevant erudites of the 21st century. He served as secretary of the translation committee for the NVI (Nueva Version Internacional) translation, the most widely read modern Bible translation in the Spanish language. He is also the author of seven books on Biblical disciplines, theology, and devotional reflection and has served as pastor, professor at various Bible...

Activistas, luchadoras sociales, transgresoras, feministas, ejemplo de acción y compromiso por la patria. Matilde Montoya, Juana B. Gutiérrez, María Arias Bernal, Hermila Galindo, María del Pilar Moreno Díaz, Mimí Derba, Palma Guillén, Clementina Batalla, Tina Modotti, Adelaida Argüelles, Eulalia Guzmán, Concepción Mendizábal. Muy poco valorado ha sido el papel de la mujer en la historia de México, sólo un puñado integran el bando femenino de protagonistas y heroínas. Limitadas al cuidado de los hijos y las tareas domésticas, a la postura machista del contexto familiar,...

El escritor francés Marcel Schwob solía decir que si James Boswell hubiese sido capaz de concentrar en diez páginas su monumental Vida de Samuel Johnson, habría logrado la obra de arte tan esperada. Giorgio Manganelli, tomándose las palabras de Schwob casi como un desafío, escribió este breve texto sobre la vida de Johnson, el intelectual inglés más importante del siglo xviii. Manganelli sentía una gran afinidad por la obra y la figura de Johnson, de quien dice que fue «el primer héroe de la sociedad de masas», de una sociedad capaz de inventarse mitos colectivos y...