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Quiénes son y cómo viven los "golden boys", esos argentinos que se hicieron un lugar en el exigente mundo de Wall Street y sumaron poder a partir de las crisis financieras de principio de siglo en los países emergentes en general y en la Argentina en particular.

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...

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Emilia Fernández es la primera gitana beatificada por la Iglesia Católica. Nacida en Tíjola en 1914, hija de un jornalero, vivió en una cueva toda su vida. Aprendió a trabajar la estameña, siendo conocida pronto como la canastera. Era alta, guapa y alegre. Juan Cortés, su futuro esposo, fue declarado prófugo en 1936. A comienzos de 1938, Emilia y Juan se casaron por el rito gitano y Emilia quedó embarazada. Fueron detenidos y llevados a Almería, cada uno a una prisión distinta. En la cárcel se convierte y aprende a rezar el rosario. Por no querer delatar a quien se lo había...