Mário Pedrosa

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...

La obra artística y literaria de José María Baez resulta especialmente atractiva por muchos motivos que van desde su especialización estética hasta su singular afecto al lenguaje. Resultado de ello es su carismática personalidad, donde la erudición y la sentimentalidad parecen entenderse en un cordial equilibrio que, no obstante, no deja lugar para certezas convencionales. Esta obra es, quizá, la prueba más patente de ello: "La vida con los otros" se nos ofrece como una colección de nueve ensayos breves, elocuentes y amenos, donde el autor nos deja ver su gusto por el íntimo tiempo ...

"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With black-and-white illustrations throughout and sixteen pages of photos, this turning point in history is brought vividly to life.

Discover That There Are 6000 Different Kinds Of Dragonflies Because They Are Predators, How Their Body Is Made Up, And How They Reproduce.