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"The Diplomite" is a compelling account of the author's life experiences growing up so far from home. From India to Vienna, Diana Carr was always an outsider, and learned what it is like to be the "other". This is a story about what it is like to be a young representative of the United States and staying calm in the face of danger. This is a story about how no matter what, the author's parents kept her family safe. This is a story about the strength and importance of family. Carr's father joined the Foreign Service in 1945. The world was in turmoil as it settled into the aftermath of World...

El diario del segundo viaje a lo largo de Latinoamérica de un joven argentino, revelando el afloramiento de un comprometido revolucionario conocido como "el Che." Esta secuela a Diarios de motocicleta incluye cartas, poesía y periodismo que documentan el segundo viaje latinoamericano del joven Ernesto Guevara después de obtener su título de la facultad de medicina en 1953. Revela como el joven argentino se transforma en un revolucionario militante, listo para comprometerse a la lucha guerrillera que Fidel Castro y sus compañeros están por lanzar en Cuba contra la dictadura del general...

Important work not only to know the trajectory of Jaime Torres Bodet but also the ins and outs of his thinking and an era in the history of Mexico of which he was the protagonist. The author, Fernando Zertuche, presents a broad view of Jaime's life; since his formative years and the awakening of his young literary vocation, his time in Universidad Nacional with people like Ezequiel A. Chvez and Jos Vasconcelos, his experience working for the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Public Education, until his very last days of life. He highlights his many facets as intellectual and...

Tiene en sus manos un tesoro en formato ligero: nada menos que un resumen de la sabiduría de todos los tiempos. El guía es Víctor Amela, que tras años de lecturas y entrevistas, resume lo mejor que ha encontrado para inspirar su propia vida y lo traslada, sintético y bien contextualizado, a todo tipo de lectores. Aparecen 99 figuras desde Jesucristo hasta Buda o Lao Tse, desde Homero hasta Goethe, desde Jefferson hasta Henry Ford, desde Kant a Borges o Dalí, retratadas por su pluma ágil, que extrae de cada una seis grandes sentencias que podríamos grabar en piedra o escribir en las...