El fracaso escolar

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

La herencia de Janis Joplin permanece viva, conmoviendo aún a nuevas generaciones que, más allá del grito, identifican a la cantantte sureña con la fuerza y la independencia femeninas.

The Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine’s (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America. “A skyscraper in the literature on racism.” —Christian Science Monitor “Rankine [is] helping America understand itself, one conversation at a time.” —Associated Press NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 by The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Esquire, The Guardian, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear...

Entretejiendo las voces y testimonios de distintos personajes con la suya, el doctor Adolfo Martínez Palomo presenta en esta obra una rica aproximación a la vida y obra del ilustre cardiólogo mexicano. Desde la reestructuración que Ignacio Chávez hizo de la Universidad Michoacana hasta las reformas que realizó a la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) como rector, el libro se detiene en algunos de los pasajes más significativos de su labor, como la renovación de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, la modernización del Hospital General y la fundación del Instituto...