La escritura de la memoria

Synopsis: It’s 2008, at the height of the second Gulf War, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell still bans LGBTQ service members from revealing their truth. Cy Burns, discharged from the Army for coming out, now takes on the world with her words, blogging from her rural country store where she and her employee, Sammy, elicit a mix of admiration and homophobia. When local infantryman Cole begs for Cy's help in wooing east coast transplant Rose, she volunteers to ghost write his courtship and keep her own admiration for Rose silent. Meanwhile, the return of her former commander revives old grudges...

El claroscuro de un genio maldito. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio vivió la más oscura y peligrosa vida de entre los grandes maestros de la pintura. Los ambientes de Milán, Roma y Nápoles en los que Caravaggio se movió, y que Andrew Graham-Dixon describe magníficamente en este libro, son los de los cardenales y las prostitutas, los de la oración y la violencia. En las calles que circundaban iglesias y palacios, las peleas y los duelos eran moneda común. En una de estas disputas, el impetuoso Caravaggio mató a otro hombre y tuvo que huir a Nápoles y luego a Malta, donde escapó de...

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...

Una guía completa, clara y sencilla destinada a toda familia, para afrontar y resolver con los remedios que ofrece la Homeopatía los problemas de lactante, los niños, jóvenes, adultos y ancianos.