Espiritualidad bíblica en "Consideraciones" de Pedro Poveda

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...

Este libro es un compendio de historias familiares, esfuerzos e ilusiones en pos de la excelencia española que ocuparon —y siguen haciéndolo— la vida profesional de Carlos Falcó: cómo mejorar dos cultivos milenarios, olivos y vides, que Tucídides definió como origen de la cultura mediterránea, y especialmente sus frutos, el aceite y el vino. Haciéndolo, ha practicado cuanto le gustaba —algo siempre recomendable para la salud—, logrando una buena vida, esa aspiración prioritaria para cualquier ser humano sin traicionar sus valores y, tal vez, contribuyendo en cierta medida a...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

Parlamentarios de Almería en la Transición a la Democracia quiere dar a conocer a la sociedad actual la biografía de las personas que representaron a los almerienses en las cámaras legislativas elegidas en una etapa histórica decisiva: la que permitió a España pasar de un régimen autoritario y centralista, a otro basado en una monarquía parlamentaria y en la autonomía de sus regiones. Tras explicar la dinámica electoral de la provincia en ese periodo, y a partir de fuentes diversas -bibliografícas, archivísticas, hemerográficas y, sobre todo, orales- los autores reconstruyen el...