Grandes Personajes de Mexico

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El Quijote es difícilmente comprensible sin atender al contexto en el más amplio sentido del término. Si es cierto que, para don Quijote, como lector y actor, la caballería y sus códigos eran una realidad de signos, no lo es menos que en tiempos de Cervantes aún la caballería tiene una fuerza representativa a la que hay que reconocerle mucho más que una pura representación desgastada y ya en franca ruina y pérdida. En este libro se estudia la repercusión del sueño caballeresco en siglo xvi.

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

Un exquisto análisis de la imagen del poder en el México virreinal durante los tres siglos que duró el dominio español, con profusión de imágenes en color y ,especialmente, de las series de retratos ubicados en el Palacio de los Virreyes y en el Ayuntamiento de México, que configuran una verdadera dinastía virreinal.