Por qué lloras

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...

En estas paginas descubrimos a un Rene Favaloro pleno: con su grandeza espiritual y su permanente entrega, con su avidez intelectual y su lucha constante por mejorar (y depurar de actos corruptos) el sistema de salud en la Argentina. Pero tambien al hombre casero, que ansiaba la llegada del domingo para compartir con sus amigos; el mismo que tuvo una continua y dificultosa relacion con el poder y con sus representantes. Y por ultimo, el Favaloro del final, el que vio como, mientras el pais se derrumbaba, sus suenos se congelaban y eran presa de la rapina, el desmerito y el olvido. Carlos...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

La presente es una historia de chozos de madera y paja, una historia de un tiempo en el que las familias vivían y criaban a sus hijos en el campo, un tiempo en el que los niños no iban a la escuela y trabajaban desde que abrían los ojos a la luz del día. Esta es la historia, real, de Francisco Salado Barbero.