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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

“THE WRONG HOUSE” (Marielito; Exodus of Cubans in 1980) By Esteban Burier For all opponents of the Castro regime who went to comply with arbitrary sanctions; for those who were executed by the Castro regime; deprived of any defense, innocent of cases imposed by improvised courts; for those who were under the inclemency of the murderer Ernesto (Che) Guevara and so many other lap dogs of the dictator Fidel Castro; They are my deepest respect and admiration. They gave their lives with a shout of; Live Christ the King! Long live free Cuba! “THE WRONG HOUSE” Narrates the childhood of a boy ...

Esta narracin̤ de la vida de Ignacio (1491-1540) se basa en la "Autobiografa̕", un escrito dictado por el mismo Ignacio a un compaęro, tres aǫs antes de su muerte. Al hablar, Ignacio se refiere siempre a s ̕mismo en tercera persona como "el peregrino."

Fray Junípero Serra fue controversial en vida y en sepultura. Ha hecho correr ríos de tinta. Para unos, es santo misionero y héroe civilizador; para otros, fraile medieval y carcelero genocida. Parece que es más importante lo que representa que lo que fue en vida. No hace falta otra imagen en esta procesión de historiadores y políticos. Lo interesante es el hombre que fue Junípero, cómo se imaginó su vida y cómo la vivió así como el diálogo que mantuvo consigo mismo, con Dios y con las personas que se encontró por el camino. Este es un libro de encuentros. La palabra clave es la ...