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This award-winning picture book does the impossible. It condenses the life of the late, great Nelson Mandela in a way children will be able to understand and appreciate.

An up-to-date, authorized biography of the Dalai Lama draws on more than a dozen personal interviews to furnish an incisive, in-depth portrait of one of the world's most important religious figures, offering a detailed study of Tibet and its Buddhist traditions; the forces that shaped his beliefs, politics, and ideals; his role in exile; and the future of Tibet.

Veinticinco años después de su muerte, y al comienzo de un nuevo milenio, la palabra de Monseñor Romero no ha perdido actualidad. Sus homilías nos siguen cuestionando y exigiendo, nos continúan dando ánimo y esperanza. Nadie que hoy lea o escuche sus homilías puede quedar indiferente. Y es que la palabra de Monseñor Romero, como la palabra del Evangelio, no pierde vigencia, porque es una palabra profética, el «resonar de Dios». Esta obra es una selección de fragmentos de las homilías de Monseñor Romero. Son trescientos sesenta y cinco textos, uno para cada día del año. Y es...

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...