Hasta que la oruga se convierte en mariposa

The Cuban-born author and intellectual offers an intensely personal, poignant biography of Caruca, his late wife of sixty-six years, in an illustrated portrait of a remarkable love. (Biography)

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

He conseguido logros que ni tan siquiera soñaba, aunque el mayor no es el dinero ni el éxito, sino no haber caído en el mundo de las drogas. La vida en Pan Bendito nunca fue sencilla. Ahora soy un cantante de éxito y un ídolo en el barrio, pero sé lo que es tener pánico a salir a la calle. Miedo físico a que me pegaran y a la humillación de los insultos. Ser un «moro gordo y orejón» no me lo puso fácil, así que durante años me zurraron sin piedad. Odiaba a la gente y por eso me metí en el boxeo. Ya que recibía golpes todos los días al menos tenía que aprender a defenderme y ...

Chronicles the life of Corrie, whose happy life in Holland is shattered when she is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, where she endured much suffering, but experienced God's love and help in unbearable situations. (Biography)