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卡斯特罗是古巴社会主义革命的创始人，也是上世纪影响了世界政治格局的一位领袖人物。又因为古巴同中国同属于少数的社会主义阵营，卡斯特罗本人即使在国内也还是有很大的一批“粉丝”。本书正是由驻古巴大使夫妇创作，首次披露了大使夫妇二人与卡斯特罗的交往及卡斯特罗本人的趣事。读者所了解的卡斯特罗都是传记上的卡斯特罗，而不是生活中的为人朋友、为人父母、为人兄长的卡斯特罗。这是一本走进卡斯特罗的好书。

"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...

Como en el mundo de hoy, en el de los piratas del siglo xvii no hay sino un propósito claro: la búsqueda del tesoro Un pirata oteando el horizonte, empapado de ron y ansioso de tesoros: en septiembre de 1695, el pirata inglés Henry Every, capitán del Fancy, atacó y se apoderó de un barco que regresaba a la India desde la Meca. Este acto, uno de los crímenes más lucrativos de la historia, tuvo ramificaciones mundiales y dio lugar a la primera orden de caza y captura internacional y al primer juicio del siglo XVII. Este acontecimiento, remoto y aislado en el océano Índico, fue el...

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...