Sir Walter Raleigh

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

Un libro donde la realidad y la emoción van cogidas de la mano. Los voluntarios del Hospital de Sant Joan de Déu relatan en él sus experiencias, sus vivencias, sus recuerdos y sus impresiones y su principal enseñanza: los niños como maestros de la vida y el amor. Unos relatos que despiertan las ganas de vivir, que desnudan el lado más débil de las personas para alimentar así la fuerza de voluntad y el coraje por seguir vivo. En el libro encontramos un retrato de todo aquello que los niños enseñan a los adultos.

"I saggi contenuti documentano la molteplice ricchezza di una materia e di un oggetto d'arte e di comunicazione così particolare come il teatro e il cinema di Totò: Totò e la gaia scienza di O. Caldiron, Totò e il varietà: dal futurismo al futuro di N. Fano, Totò e Peppino: la coppia e la danza comica di G. Frezza, La scrittura dei semicolti dal teatro di Scarpetta al cinema di Totò di G. Gavagnin, Parli come badi: la creatività linguistica e l'effetto comico di A. Cicalese, L'apporto linguistico di Totò alla formazione dell'italiano contemporaneo di E. Radtke, Gioco verbale e...

This book is a history of the kidnapping of Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine quintuple champion of Fórmula 1. This world-famous event was perpetrated by a little group of July 26 Movement’s members in 1958, the day before the Big Prize of Cuba, due February 23. Also, the book presents publications in the Cuban and foreign press about this extraordinary event that gave to Fangio more fame that all his sportive successes. The kidnapping carried out the revel’s objective: to make the world know about their struggle for knock down the bloody dictatorship in Cuba. In the appendix appears the...