El amor y la furia

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

“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 ...

Juan Gris es uno de los pintores más importantes del siglo XX, y un cubista por excelencia. Sin embargo, su personalidad sigue siendo desconocida para la mayoría. Dando la palabra al propio artista, este libro da a conocer a un Juan Gris más íntimo, al tiempo que proporciona noticias de primera mano sobre el París artístico y cultural de los primeros años del siglo pasado. Por él asoman personajes de todo tipo, configurando un caleidoscopio que retrata un mundo en vertiginoso cambio. Un mundo mar-cado por la rápida sucesión de las vanguardias y por el impacto de la Gran Guerra....

El Diccionario biográfico (vol. IV) ofrece a lo largo de más de 1.600 voces, información objetiva acerca de los personajes, sus carreras y los acontecimientos en los que tomaron parte, evitando los debates historiográficos propios de otro tipo de obras.