San Vicente Ferrer, su mundo y su vida

In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and settled most of that territory. He also brought a large group of settlers from Spain and Portugal whose impact on its cultural development was very significant. Many of those settlers were of Jewish descent and some of them were tried by the Inquisition for practicing the faith of their ancestors. This book is a biography of Carvajal...

Se trata de una pregunta que nos inquieta solo de pensarla, tan profundamente dependen nuestras vidas y sociedades del mundo científico-tecnológico de la electricidad. Entre los grandes protagonistas de ese mundo, destaca un serbio que después de estudiar ingeniería en Graz (Austria), emigró en1884 aAmérica, instalándose en Nueva York; un serbio de imaginación y habilidades descomunales, un excéntrico sin miedo a lo desconocido, que gozaba montando espectáculos para promover sus inventos: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). Es difícil apreciar cuánto debemos a sus inventos: sus ideas y...

El valle del terror es una novela protagonizada por Sherlock Holmes y escrita por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Publicada por primera vez en el Strand Magazine entre septiembre de 1914 y mayo de 1915. La primera edición en formato libro fue publicado en Nueva York el 27 de febrero de 1915. La historia tiene lugar en 1888, con un flashback basado en el libro de Allan Pinkerton sobre los Molly Maguires en las minas de carbón de Pensilvania, en 1875. La novela está dividida en dos partes bien diferenciadas. En la primera parte, Sherlock Holmes, utilizando sus técnicas habituales, descubre la...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...