Vida y obra de un jurista militar en el exilio

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so. Offered here are thirty-one of Pastor Bonhoeffer's sermons, in new English translations, which he preached at various times of the year and in a variety of different settings. Each is introduced by Bonhoeffer translator Isabel Best who also provides a brief biography of Bonhoeffer. The foreword is by Victoria J. Barnett, general editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, published by...

Compilación de escritos históricos y autobiográficos de Jacinto Ventura de Molina (1766-1837), negro libre y letrado que da cuenta del paso de la sociedad colonial a las nuevas repúblicas.

¿Cómo fue para los hijos de los exiliados crecer en un país ajeno, lejos de su familia y su cultura, y luego llegar a Chile al final de la dictadura? Este ensayo literario autobiográfico intenta responder a estas preguntas.

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...