Mirrors and Echoes

Even in the darkest times, there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir form Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oscar Schindler's list. Aún en los momentos más obscuros de la historia, surgen fenómenos de fortaleza y coraje. Esta es una biografía admirable de Leon Leyson, uno de los jovencitos sobrevivientes del holocausto quien fue parte de la "Lista de Schindler".

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each...

A punto de que Colombia fuera un Estado fallido, ¿cómo llegaron a ser los colombianos normativamente pluriculturales? Vistas en un marco global, ¿qué características sellaron sus experiencias básicas a lo largo de dos siglos de existencia independentista? La solución de esos interrogantes sirve de excusa al autor de este libro para el escrutinio detallado de los íconos culturales unidos al mito originario de los colombianos, cuya ley de circulación circular coartó el surgimiento de lo nuevo, y del mito cultural de la Atenas suramericana, con que se intentó compensar el fracaso en...