La naturaleza de Franco

Este texto condensa los momentos destacables de la participación de Leona Vicario en el movimiento independentista. Además incluye fragmentos de la carta que esta heroína de la independencia le escribe a Lucas Alamán en 1831, donde contesta con firmeza que su participación en el movimiento no debe considerarse como heroísmo romancesco, sino como un servicio común a la patria.

Robert Gerhard es, sin duda, uno de los compositores españoles más relevantes del siglo xx; muchas veces es nombrado como la figura más importante del citado período junto a Falla. Sin embargo, tanto su biografía como su música son escasamente conocidas en nuestro país. La presente monografía reclama la atención sobre este gran compositor: ofrece una biografía rigurosa y actualizada, un análisis de su pensamiento estético e ideológico, y estudia la parte de su producción en la que Gerhard utilizó la Literatura como excusa creativa, dando lugar a algunas obras maestras como su...

An incisive new biography of the great secularist whoalongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhiled the movement for Indias independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. An incisive new biography of the great secularist whoalongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhiled the movement for Indias independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become Indias first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a ...

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...