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This book gathers the main religious images in Mexico, beginning with Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is a celebrated catholic icon of the Virgin Mary and Mexico's most popular religious and cultural image. Included also, are: Virgin of Acahuato, Our Lady of Tintoque, Virgin of Carmen, Our Lady of Catemaco, Our Lady of Loreto, and many more. There are history, anecdotes and color photographs.

El crimen que marcó el final de las torturas de la dictadura uruguaya. El 16 de abril de 1984, mientras en Uruguay se negociaba el regreso a la democracia luego de once años de dictadura, el médico uruguayo Vladimir Roslik, oriundo de la comunidad rusa de San Javier, murió como consecuencia de las torturas que un grupo de militares le infligió durante su detención en el cuartel n.° 9 de Río Negro. Su muerte fue motivo de alarma y conmoción en una sociedad que anhelaba el fin de una etapa terrible de la historia nacional. Este libro recorre los episodios más relevantes del...

Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had...