Minas de la Baja Tarahumara

In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that is long overdue . The collection speaks to how a practicing surgeon really feels about the vital medical issues of our day , and what needs to be done to improve his lifes work and his dedicated care for his patients . American medicine is at a desperate crossroads where the qualitative health of...

The private diaries record aspects of everyday life, woven together by the affective life, in an attempt to capture and contain them in words, and to retain them through writing. They originated as texts for exclusive personal use, but by subsequent developments, they have come to take another course and have been published posthumously, achieving completely different goals from those that initiated them. Such is the case of the two texts that are the subject of this edition: the diaries of Soledad Acosta Kemble and Jose Maria Samper Agudelo, written during four months and four days, before...

Una narración chispeante y rigurosa sobre la vida de las minorías cristianas que sobreviven en Oriente Medio.

La emigración ilegal es un fenómeno que se pone de manifiesto en la mayoría de los países del tercer mundo. Como es conocido por todos, Cuba es uno de los países desde donde salen cientos de emigrantes ilegales (llamados balseros) en busca del territorio estadounidense a través de las peligrosas aguas del Estrecho de la Florida y a través del extenso Mar Caribe. En el intento de lograr sus objetivos, fundamentalmente económicos y de libertad, muchos logran coronar, pero también muchos desaparecen de manera lamentable en las profundidades de los mares. En Escape al Caribe, su autor y...