Tomás Moro

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

Nadia sólo tiene ocho años pero se le ha acabado la infancia. Una bomba ha destruido su casa y con ella su vida, su rostro y la situación económica acomodada en la que vivía. Una niña que a los diez años decide cambiar el velo blanco por el turbante, adoptar la identidad de su hermano muerto y trabajar sin descanso por la supervivencia de los suyos.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

¿Quién era Leo Strauss y qué decía exactamente? Hay quienes se jactan de haber descubierto el «indiscutible carácter falocrático» de su filosofía, quienes lo ven como el constructor moderno del «mito de la tradición» y quienes alimentan su apacible conciencia crítica desenmascarando conspiraciones políticas que tendrían a Leo Strauss como su inspirador filosófico. Nada nuevo, en realidad, en la historia de la filosofía. A lo largo de estas páginas Gregorio Luri nos acerca al pensador judeo-alemán con una mirada desarmada, descubriendo en el pensador judeo-alemán un...