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Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

Basada en una serie de entrevistas personales y exclusivas con Alexander Solzhenitsyn, la biografía de Joseph Pearce sobre el famoso disidente ruso proporciona una visión profunda de una gran figura literaria y política del último siglo. Este libro recorre la vida del genial escritor ruso, viajando al corazón de un hombre que sufrió las peores torturas físicas y psicológicas: Desde su juventud procomunista hasta su encarcelamiento en campos de trabajos por criticar a Stalin, desde su exilio en Estados Unidos hasta su regreso a Rusia como un héroe, y sus críticas a los gobiernos de...

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 ...

“Lo recomendaría a los jóvenes lectores y a cualquiera que quiera leer cuentos sobre los incas. Los niños también descubren cuál es su nombre inca y esto fascinó a mis hijos”. Acompaña a la diosa Pachamama y al arco iris Cuychi en un viaje épico por la historia incaica. Conocerás a dioses, diosas, un mago, reinas, reyes, príncipes, princesas, secuestradores, guerreros, conquistadores, buscadores de tesoros, exploradores, heroínas, héroes y dos volcanes enamorados. Abróchate el cinturón y acompáñanos en esta aventura cultural y educativa por Sudamérica. De las 12 historias ...