Desdichados monstruos

El monstruo se encuentra en la tradición literaria y en el folclore de todas las culturas y de todas las épocas. Casi todos los seres monstruosos de las narraciones de todos los tiempos reflejan una parecida visión del mundo, recreada asimismo en el cine: todos parecen atados a la proyección que tenemos del otro, del diferente, del deforme, del extraño, de la fealdad entre la belleza, de la maldad frente a la inocencia Seres que nos mueven a la curiosidad, a la burla, al miedo o al desprecio, los monstruos simbolizan las contradicciones y los miedos propios de la condición humana.

This book teaches children about 16 of the world's most important cities, including Buenos Aires, London, Mexico City, New York, and Tokyo. Each two-page spread presents the city's role in history as well as present day, famous monuments and museums, illustrious citizens, and a search game that invites readers to study the illustrations in detail.

Lucía, es una princesa, que tuvo que ser muy valiente para salvar a su papá el Rey y su Mamá la reina.

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...