Amar u odiar: esa es la cuestión

Breviario del Nuevo Mundo es una antología de textos de Alejandro de Humboldt contiene textos que escribió durante su viaje, acompañado del naturalista francés Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, entre 1799 y 1804. A pesar de ser el primer geógrafo e historiador de la América española, el barón alemán no tenía entre sus objetivos recorrer la América equinoccial, y menos aún visitar el virreinato de la Nueva Granada. El propósito de visitar el Nuevo Mundo surge cuando fracasa su idea de explorar el continente africano. En 1799 se dirige a España con el fin de solicitar los permisos ...

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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...

Una emocionante vida juntos, enmarcados por la pobreza extrema y falta de afectos, experimentaron dos niños vecinos de un barrio marginal de Concordia.Ellos serán los protagonistas de esta hermosa historia de amor. Supieron afrontar todo tipo de adversidades y así crecieron hasta llegar a la edad adulta descubriendo el amor que los uniría para caminar la vida juntos. Formaron una familia siempre en el seno del amor y del respeto, que nace desde la unión de ellos mismos. Se mimetizaron tanto que supieron encontrar la felicidad de saberse uno para el otro y así lograr unir fuerzas para...