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Esta obra reevalúa los motivos, métodos e impacto del controvertido predicador, trazando el viaje de Ferrer desde el oscuro lógico hasta el ángel del apocalipsis, como se le conocía. Al mismo tiempo, el libro ofrece nuevas perspectivas sobre la profundidad y la amplitud de la anticipación apocalíptica medieval tardía, y sobre los procesos que finalmente condujeron a las expulsiones de judíos y musulmanes de España.

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...

El 23 de agosto de 1927 los anarquistas Nicola Sacco y Bartolomeo Vanzetti fueron ejecutados en la silla eléctrica tras uno de los procesos más célebres, dramáticos y controvertidos de la historia judicial estadounidense. Eran dos inmigrantes italianos que habían sido detenidos en pleno delirio anti-comunista, juzgados y condenados en una vista en la que la imparcialidad del jurado y el juez resultó, cuanto menos, dudosa. Unos meses antes de la ejecución, John Dos Passos, que acababa de consagrarse literariamente con la publicación de Manhattan Transfer, ultimaba la redacción...

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher. Then Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple, and Michaela begins to take dance lessons. But life in the States isn't without difficulties. Unfortunately, tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America, too, and her past can feel like it's haunting her. The world...