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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...

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.” – Hillary Clinton The four most powerful African American women in politics share the story of their friendship and how it has changed politics in America. The lives of black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics is a sweeping view of American history from the vantage points of four women who have lived and worked behind the scenes in politics for over thirty years—Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway,...

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Ulysses S. Grant, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Conocer más sobre Ulysses S. Grant, un militar de carrera que llega a dirigir Estados Unidos y cuyas decisiones se ven influidas por sus valores militares como la lealtad o la integridad • Evaluar los problemas sociales y económicos que derivan tras la guerra de Secesión y el periodo de reconstrucción del sur de Estados Unidos • Descubrir los momentos clave de los mandatos de Ulysses S....

Ignacio Domeyko, científico, investigador, educador, viajero incansable, aportó junto a muchos extranjeros que llegaron en el siglo XIX, a la formación de la nación chilena y, en particular, al desarrollo de la industria minera que, con los años se transformó en el pilar fundamental para la economía chilena.