A esta hora de la noche

Un libro tan singular como precursor, en el que el autor expresa sus experiencias sensoriales bajo la acción de la mescalina, el principio activo del peyotl, denominación mexicana del cacto, venerado como una deidad por los indios de México y del sudeste de los Estados Unidos.

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...

Egypt's sun queen magnificently revealed in a new book by renowned Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson Nefertiti's name and face are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt, yet for many she is little more than an icon or archetype of ancient beauty. However, recent research has fleshed out our knowledge--or at least credible hypotheses--about her life and career, pointing to her being an important political figure in her own right, rather than simply the principal spouse of the so-called "heretic king," Akhenaten, and mother-in-law (if not mother) of Tutankhamun. In Nefertiti,...

«Uno sabe que nunca hay nada definitivo en contemporáneos pero esta biografía es excelente y cultiva tanto el mito como el anti-mito. Minucioso y encomiable trabajo de entrevista y diagnóstico sobre el Mesías Marciano que siempre nos ha ofrecido David Jones» Carlos Zanón David Bowie es uno de los músicos más reconocidos y respetados del pop-rock mundial. Conocido en todo el mundo como el gran “camaleón” de la música, su brillante creatividad y constante reinvención le han convertido en un icono de nuestro tiempo. Sin embargo, a pesar de su fama, Bowie sigue siendo un enigma....