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"Des que tinc ús del que es diu raó (dels catorze anys ençà, més o menys) m'he sentit incòmode al país - Anglaterra - on vaig néixer. De fet, dient 'incòmode' em quedo curt: entre els 14 i 26 anys (l'edat que vaig marxar) em sentia – i exagero, però ben poc - com un alienígena que no havia estat prou preparat pels seus coetanis a la nau mare". Així arrenca la diatriba de Matthew Tree contra la Gran Bretanya que l'escriptor anglès expatriat a Catalunya ha escrit coincidint amb la polèmica del Brexit. El darrer viatge que Tree ha fet a Londres ha coincidit amb una rehabilitació ...

Important work not only to know the trajectory of Jaime Torres Bodet but also the ins and outs of his thinking and an era in the history of Mexico of which he was the protagonist. The author, Fernando Zertuche, presents a broad view of Jaime's life; since his formative years and the awakening of his young literary vocation, his time in Universidad Nacional with people like Ezequiel A. Chvez and Jos Vasconcelos, his experience working for the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Public Education, until his very last days of life. He highlights his many facets as intellectual and...

The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them victoriously across Venezuela and down the spine of the Andes as far as Potosí; he was also the statesman who framed the new republics that sprang to life after the defeat of the Spanish and who called the Congress of Panama in hopes of making real his dream of uniting all the South American...

Eglantyne Jebb y Oskar Schindler, una mujer y un hombre que dejaron el legado de un mundo mejor, más humano y más solidario. Ella, conmovida por los millones de niños víctimas de las guerras mundiales, trabajó por darles cobijo y dignidad; una mujer de acción que redactó el borrador de la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño y fundó la ONG Save the Children. Él, un hombre luchador ante las injusticias; no dudó en invertir su tiempo y fortuna en salvar la vida de más de 1.200 judíos víctimas del holocausto. Oskar Schindler es recordado porque “salvó una vida y, salvó al...