Vivencias

Esta obra, excepcional en literatura hagiográfica, nos brinda los hechos sin comentarios superfluos, con un poder de evocación y una llama sobrenatural que nos muestra la acción continua de Dios. "Desde el seminario quedé impresionado por la figura del Cura de Ars, sobre todo, por la lectura de su biografía, escrita por Monseñor Trochu". Juan Pablo II La aldea de Ars está a 35 km de Lión. El Rdo. Vianney llegaba procedente de Ecully, en cuya parroquia había sido coadjutor. Al acercarse a la aldea, era tanta la niebla, que el santo cura se extravió. Encontró a unos niños que...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

"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...

Un relato completo de la vida y obra de Tesla en el entorno de la revolución industrial. Rica descripción del entorno y las amistades de Tesla: la alta sociedad norteamericana y la élite científica e industrial, con personajes como J.P. Morgan, Edison, Wstinghouse, Mark Twain... Buena descripción de su vida personal, sus manías, fobias y excentricidades.