Biografia Del Papa Francisco - No Oficial (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Un paseo por la montaña no presagia nada bueno para Sadie, una perra de cría a quien pocas veces se le da la oportunidad de pasear; su tarea es parir, pero ese día su dueño le ha sacado al bosque y, cuando está bien adentro, se ha parado y poniéndose frente a ella, ha sacado algo de la chaqueta. ¡Bang!, suena, y un dolor insoportable recorre a Sadie. Sin aún comprender qué está pasando, ha visto el cañón de una escopeta y a su asesino, su propio dueño, cómo la disparaba entre los ojos y en la columna vertebral. Dos tiros y todo se volvió negro. Pero Sadie no murió, su afán...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

"Junto a una abundante literatura hagiográfica e hipótesis llamativas, totalmente gratuitas y uniformemente torpes, los documentos se imponen con el máximo rigor. Una vez más, es apenas creíble comparar con un mínimo rigor la literatura que han suscitado los templarios (no ya hagiográfica, sino claramente demencial en algunos casos), y estos documentos tan sencillos, tan concluyentes, tan serenamente irrefutables que constituyen su verdadera historia". Desde la creación de la orden en 1119-1120 hasta su disolución dos siglos más tarde, Régine Pernoud cuenta la historia de estos...

This is a story of a boy raised in an extreme ultra-strict Protestant family, members of “the Exclusive Brethren”. From an early age, James found he was at war with his family and the Brethren. Nothing that would be considered normal was acceptable. This book details his experiences growing up in this family, showing his struggles and confusions. It tells of the Brethren’s involvement in his love affair and how the family put an end to his marriage because he had slept with his fiancée. It outlines his escape from the Brethren while he was working in a large London hospital. The book...