Gaviero

I arrived in Medellin looking for Adrian, and I met Nahum, Hernan Dario, Jonathan, Victor Manuel, Fernando, Juan Esteban, Ruben Dario, Wilinton, Douglas, Jose Daniel, Angel Antonio, Julio, and Fabio. In Barecelona, I m Santiago, but here at the Jericho Lighthouse Foundation, I m Kaliman, the hero who listens to true stories of wounded, mistreated young men who had been banished from the good life. You can t erase the past, and picking yourself up is no easy feat. But the men at Faro are also Kalimans; they have left the streets, the drugs, and the scraping by behind to begin to look forward...

Poetic text recounts the childhood of the noted Spanish poet, including his love for the nature and folklore of his native Andalusia, his introduction to music and literature at home, and his health problems.

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

Buscamos el amor, lo necesitamos a veces como a la luz de un faro; pero no siempre es de color de rosa. A veces nos llena de luz y a veces nos desarma, nos rompe y nos desengaña. Este libro nos lleva a través de muchas de las emociones y sensaciones que nos provoca; a través del miedo, de la ilusión, de las lágrimas, de la soledad, las ansias y el deseo. Porque a ninguno nos resulta intranscendente, ya sea porque lo buscamos, porque lo tenemos, porque lo perdimos o porque nunca lo tuvimos.