Hipatia de Alejandría

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so. Offered here are thirty-one of Pastor Bonhoeffer's sermons, in new English translations, which he preached at various times of the year and in a variety of different settings. Each is introduced by Bonhoeffer translator Isabel Best who also provides a brief biography of Bonhoeffer. The foreword is by Victoria J. Barnett, general editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, published by...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Una luz en el Desierto está escrita con la tinta de la pasión y narrada con la entraña de una guerrerense en plenitud, es el espíritu de Guerrero y de sus habitantes. Antonia Nájera Reyna abre su corazón y nos lleva a su tierra natal a conocer a sus habitantes y sus historias que se entrelazan y muestran su espíritu combativo. Los personajes en voz de la autora nos permiten asomarnos a sus vidas llenas de anécdotas que nos invitan a la sonrisa, el asombro, la compasión y la esperanza... La pasión es la marca personal en la narración de esta novela, por eso la autora pide en el...