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"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

Stéphane Courtois demuestra en esta obra fundamental la forma en que Lenin, un joven intelectual radical, elabora, ansía y establece una dictadura ideológica despiadada al crear los conceptos y los instrumentos del totalitarismo que simbolizarían los horrores del siglo XX. La figura de Vladimir Ílich Uliánov se distingue no solo por enfrentarse a los liberales y a los demócratas, sino también a todos los movimientos socialistas. Ayudado por un inusitado poder de convicción y avanzando desde las sombras, logró conquistar, por la fuerza y sanguinariamente, el poder en octubre en 1917. ...

Persona advocates a new morality; an ethics of rational self-interest that stands in complete opposition to the political, social and religious attitudes of our day. My unique philosophy of objectivism is the underlying theme of the book; the basic tenets of a new ethos that challenges the accepted standards of our age. The psychological experience of a journey through innocence to learning; through normality and abnormality and emotional encounters in the quest for inner enlightenment.