La plaga de los Borbones

Vivencias, treinta y cinco aos en misiones no tradicionales es la recopilacin de las experiencias vividas por Luz Esther Cdiz durante su trayectoria sirviendo en las misiones. Aunque ella inici como misionera en el campo forneo, plantando iglesias en Per, la mayor parte de su trayectoria ha sido buscando respuestas para que los creyentes y las iglesias se involucren ms activamente en misiones. Regres de Per porque Dios le llam a ensear a otros. Pens que en dos aos regresara al campo forneo, pero no fue as y siempre luch con la idea de volver. Dios la devolvi al campo transcultural, solo que...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...

Una memoir acerca del perdón, la supervivencia...El viaje de una chica desde la indigencia hasta la Universidad de Harvard. Quemar la noche es una memoir bestseller en The New York Times y The London Sunday Times. El día en que Liz Murray nació su padre se encontraba en la cárcel y su madre intentaba desengancharse de las drogas. Cuando su padre salió de prisión Liz y su hermana se acostumbraron a ver a sus padres consumir en casa. A duras penas iba al colegio y en clase sus compañeros se reían de ella por llevar la ropa y el pelo sucios. Esa situación provocó que hiciera novillos a ...