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Lola Montez was the 19th century's original 'celebrity', known throughout Europe and the United States for her theatrical performances and scandalous personal life. In this intriguing work, Montez herself recounts her life in her own words. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright ...

Científicas de Acá busca visibilizar a las mujeres que trabajaron y trabajan haciendo ciencia y tecnología en la Argentina. Por eso contamos historias de laboratorio y de territorio, de todas las regiones y épocas. Historias que cambian la historia.

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...

"Incluso mis rebeliones estuvieron iluminadas por la luz. Fueron casi siempre, y creo que lo puedo decir sin engañar a nadie, rebeliones para todos, y para que la vida de todos se elevara hacia la luz." Porque escogió la rebelión antes que la revolución, Albert Camus (1913-1960) nos dejó una obra que es toda ella franqueza y "afirmación visible", iluminada por el sol de su Argelia natal. Siempre a la escucha de los acontecimientos de su época, no olvidó jamás recordarle al hombre sus verdaderos valores. Actor de su tiempo, tampoco dejó de narrar la belleza del mundo. Ensayista,...