Levántate Mujer

“Como se suele decir, la historia es un tren con muchos vagones: la locomotora puede haber ya llegado a la estación, mientras que el vagón de cola está muy, muy lejos todavía. Durante mis años de infancia puede que en otras partes los avances tecnológicos y sociales hubieran llegado lejos, pero en el concello de Nigrán, en Pontevedra, os aseguro que el sistema de trueque todavía seguía vigente en aquel tiempo.” Esta es una historia como cualquier otra, llena de recuerdos y sinsabores, que quizás pueda resultarle familiar a aquellos que hayan vivido aquellos años, que parecen...

Here is the dime-novelesque biography of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the ñForty-Ninersî who flooded into the region during the California gold rush. In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various...

Novela de epoca que relata la vida personal de Maruja, su emprendimiento y su busqueda de la felicidad.

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...