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Success didn't come easily to award-winning Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro. He experienced constant rejections in auditions for roles when he first started to pursue an acting career. It wasn't until he moved to Los Angeles that he started getting parts, starting with small ones in films like Big Top Pee Wee and eventually leading to a breakout role in The Usual Suspects. When he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in the movie Traffic, he was only the third Puerto Rican American to win an acting Oscar. Read all about del Toro in this full-color...

Las críticas al derecho rara vez han ido más allá de censurar algunas instituciones o normas concretas. Los cultores del derecho, por su parte, al percibir el descontento generalizado que existe acerca de la normatividad jurídica, han preferido asumir una actitud defensiva. Dotado de vasto conocimiento teórico y de una muy variada experiencia práctica, el autor arremete decididamente contra la vetustez de los principios, la obsolescencia de las normas y la mitología jurídica.

Quinta monografía de la Colección Cuadernos de Estudios Michoacanos dedicada a la presentación del medio físico de Las Lomas y a su historia, es decir, a las dinámicas lacustres y sedimentarias que ha experimentado el medio bajo la influencia de factores naturales y antrópicos. Se presenta una cronología de la ocupación durante los quince primeros siglos de nuestra era, así como su evolución.

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...