Sigmund Freud. El descubrimiento del inconsciente

Julian Castro, 2020 Presidential candidate, keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, and former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story. In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America. In many ways, there was no reason Julian Castro would have been expected to be a success. Born to unmarried parents in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of a struggling city, his prospects of escaping his circumstance seemed bleak. But he and his twin brother...

En este libro, fruto de cuatro años de trabajo por parte del autor, se nos presenta el Chesterton de siempre -el polemista, el escritor y el converso- junto a un Chesterton nuevo, no por ello menos verdadero: el amigo, el amante, el padre, el hermano y, sobre todo, el cristiano. A partir de sus textos, muchos de ellos inéditos, Joseph Pearce nos acerca, con amenidad y buen hacer, a una de las figuras más enigmáticas y apasionantes de la literatura inglesa y universal, forjando una obra imprescindible para la comprensión del personaje y de la Europa de este siglo. «Pearce ha evitado los...

Esta primera entrega de las Memorias de Adolfo Bioy Casares se lee como una historia más de las suyas, llena de episodios en los que aparecen, se cruzan, se enredan y a veces desaparecen toda suerte de personajes y lugares, desde él mismo, niño, adolescente y adulto -aprendiz aventajado de escritor-, hasta Jorge Luis Borges , el amigo que para Bioy fue «la literatura viviente», y Silvina Ocampo , con quien los dos compartían la misma pasión por los libros, pasando por el bull-dog Firpo , familiares, estancieros, gentes del campo, habitantes de un Buenos Aires parisino y mundano,...

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...