El teatro chino de Manolita Chen

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...

"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...

"Juan Pablo I hasta ahora solo ha sido recordado por su brevísimo pontificado y por las versiones conspirativas de su muerte, que van desde hipótesis de envenenamiento y abandono de persona hasta especulaciones de un asesinato llevado a cabo por la mafia, a la que tuvo que enfrentar durante todos sus cargos. Hoy vuelve a la escena mundial por un acontecimiento trascendental acaecido en la Argentina que reescribe la historia y transforma a un papa olvidado, efímero, menospreciado en una nueva y luminosa presencia. El Vaticano impuso una restricción para hablar de este episodio excepcional, ...

En Una científica saltando vallas, Laura M. Lechuga hace un repaso de su carrera, ahondando en los problemas a los que se enfrenta el género femenino en el ámbito científico, tanto académico como profesional, con el propósito de orientar y dar una valiosa lección a las mujeres que desean desarrollar una carrera científica, clave para el progreso científico y técnico de la sociedad. Temas como la vocación científica, los estereotipos, el estigma, los palos en la rueda, las experiencias de acoso, los grupos de investigación, las competencias transversales, la igualdad y las brechas ...