Enigmas de México

El Nilo Azul aporta más de la mitad del caudal que el Nilo vierte en el Mediterráneo. Sin embargo, apenas trasciende nada sobre su cuenca, sus gentes, sus andanzas. Javier Gozálbez se propuso el reto de descubrir qué hay debajo de ese silencio y, a la usanza de los antiguos exploradores, fue al encuentro de sus fuentes en Etiopía. Luego siguió el hilo que le marcaba el curso del río hasta alcanzar Jartum, la capital de Sudán, donde el Nilo Azul confluye con su hermano, el Nilo Blanco. Es un viaje que nadie ha narrado antes con una información tan completa, amplia y rigurosa....

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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...

Aquesta antologia presenta textos escrits per dones que dialoguen entre si malgrat que provenen de diferents èpoques i branques del coneixement. Es tracta de fragments de llibres publicats per Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona que reflexionen sobre l’anhel d’igualtat a través del relat d’experiències pròpies, d’obres literàries i d’escrits que destaquen les contribucions ben variades de moltes dones: des del testimoni d’Evelyn Fox Keller com a estudiant de Física fins a passatges de Galàtia Kazantzaki, Virginia Woolf i Montserrat Roig, passant per les aportacions...