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(Spanish Language Edition) What would you do if you were faced with a life-threatening illness? Would you distance yourself from God or grasp His hand, cling to His promises, and develop an unwavering trust in His goodness? In Only by God’s Grace Norma Kennett lovingly shares how choosing the latter helped her uncover the infinite, nearly unfathomable love of God while battling a debilitating tumor. Through the fight for her life and other experiences, she recounts how each event led her closer to the heart of Jesus. She also shares the Bible promises that spoke to her in her struggles and...

"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...

A comienzos de la década 1960, las áreas rurales de varios departamentos de Colombia fueron azotadas por cuadrillas de bandoleros, auspiciados desde la clandestinidad por los partidos liberal, conservador y comunista. Uno de estos pandilleros fue Efraín González Téllez, cabo desertor del Ejército colombiano, quien escapó de las Fuerzas Militares para organizar una cuadrilla de malhechores, con la misión de vengar la muerte de su padre a manos de adversarios políticos. Con prosa rica en figuras literarias, claridad y precisión histórica el abogado J. Tito Alba, reconstruyó los...

Cuando la periodista Anita Botwin se fue a vivir a Uruguay, muy lejos de su familia y amigos, nunca se imaginó que recibiría una noticia que cambiaría su vida para siempre: sufría esclerosis múltiple. En este libro, la autora nos ofrece un testimonio sincero sobre el camino recorrido hasta aceptar la enfermedad; desde el descubrimiento de los primeros síntomas hasta su lucha por visibilizar la diversidad funcional. Y aprovecha para lanzar un encendido y estudiado alegato en favor de los servicios públicos. Todo ello a través de una escritura directa, cruda y poderosa. Un relato lleno...