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Divertidísimo “diario de navegación”. ¿Qué hace y qué piensa un hombre solo, en una minúscula balsa, durante noventa y dos días, en medio del océano? Todas las facultades y necesidades humanas están aquí puestas a prueba. Genovés va desgranando con verdadero talento de narrador y psicólogo las incidencias objetivas y subjetivas de un viaje excepcional. El desenlace revalida con ingeniosa fantasía las cualidades de un excelente escritor.

In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all. Presented in a lively new translation, the book addresses the fears of growing older and argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated―or altogether mistaken.

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the national, provincial and local levels. The failure of Peru owes a good deal to wartime taxes and local tax farming of the countryside. Professor Christine Hunefeldt does for the mundane issue of taxation what she has already done for Peruvian slavery and women’s rights; she writes a new history based on the evolution of a tax structure that changed for the worse over time. This is...

Why are ravens black? Why do screech owl eyes look red in light? How did we get fire? You'll find the answers to those questions in this retelling of a Cherokee pourquoi folktale. The earth was cold and dark but the animals could see fire coming from the tree on the island. They tried to fly or swim to the island to bring back the fire heat and light. What happened to some of the animals? Which animal brought it back and how?