El señor Borges

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

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Elegimos seguir nuestra vocación, nuestro sueño... ser parte del mundo de la aviación. Hemos tomado una decisión de adoptar un estilo de vida que nos da esta industria. Desde las etapas básicas de la formación, en la especialidad que hayamos elegido, nos han bombardeado con infinidad de conceptos técnicos, de aerodinámica, normativos, lingüísticos, etc. Pero, preguntémonos: ¿Cuántas horas nos hemos dedicado a estudiar y aprender sobre seguridad? Difícil de responder ¿No? Es verdad que el criterio profesional se va formando con los años de capacitación y la experiencia que se...

A medio camino entre la historia literaria y la interpretación histórica, Philippe Ollé-Laprune ofrece una sucinta y completa introducción a una literatura que siempre ha intentado liberarse de la influencia del poder: de los curas, soldados y administradores del pasado como de los autores contemporáneos que gozan de numerosas becas, cargos públicos e incentivos, pero que, a la vez, enfrentan una de las redes más pobres para la difusión del libro.