Padre De Su Nacion - George Washington

Una historia de historias, de disyuntivas y de elecciones con el yoga como elemento de unión. Lee es un talentoso maestro de yoga y dueño del estudio de yoga Los Angeles Edendale. Sus estudiantes, que son de lo más superficiales y chic, como todo en Los Ángeles, han buscado a Lee para sanar su dolor físico y emocional. Lee alivia cada una de sus vidas a través de sus conocimientos llegando a mantener con ellas una singular amistad. Sin embargo, cuando una cadena de estudios de yoga en expansión en Los Ángeles intenta atraer a Lee con un contrato lucrativo y empieza a tener problemas...

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...

A history of 2,000 years of the Catholic Church through an examination of the men who led it, this book focuses on 100 of the 265 popes, from Peter to the present. It includes profiles of men such as Pope Gregory I, who became the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers; Pope Innocent III, who organized for the Fourth Crusade, which ultimately led to the sacking of Constantinople; and the most recent pope, Benedict XVI. Readers interested in the history of one of the most powerful institutions in world history will find this an important resource. Una historia de 2,000...