De Lwów a León

Probablemente Dios no existe, reza la publicidad en algunos autobuses. Sin embargo, los creyentes creen que Dios no calla y que, cuando quiere, sabe hacerse sentir. Eso pensaban ateos y agnósticos como Chesterton y Dostoievski, Sábato y Francis Collins, Tatiana Goricheva y C. S. Lewis, André Frossard y Edith Stein, Messori y Narciso Yepes. Hasta que pasaron de esa opinión a la seguridad de la existencia de Dios. Ese misterioso salto no lo dieron en medio de una vida fácil, sino en las circunstancias dramáticas de quienes han sufrido en sus carnes la persecución, la cárcel o una...

One of the closest disciples of Yogananda Paramhansa, the author of the best-selling classic Autobiography of a Yogi, shares the notes he took during his personal training by Paramhansa and during conversations by the Yogi with others, along with his own insightful commentaries.

La biografia de un aventurero del siglo XX. La historia veridica de los tesoros de las Cuevas de Los Tayos, en la Amazonia Ecuatoriana: laminas y placas de oro, plata y cobre con escrituras jeroglificas e ideograficas. Estatuas de oro con imagenes de animales desconocidos en la America tropical. Los unicos testimonios tangibles revelados por primera vez. Las expediciones "Moricz 65," "Moricz-Goyen-Mormones 68," "Moricz 69" y "Britanico-Ecuatoriana 76," con el astronauta Neil Armstrong. Cartas, planos, mapas y fotos. Esqueletos de gigantes. Piedras preciosas. La "Maldicion de Los Tayos."...

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...