Mis queridos normales

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

In Almas en pena, chapolas negras, Fernando Vallejo recounts the life of Colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva. This unusual biography is a phantasmagoric trip through Bogota at the end of the 19th century. After committing suicide in 1896, Asuncion Silva left Colombia ten of the most beautiful poems of the Spanish language, and to his creditors a sum of $210.000 in debt. A century after his death, Vallejo initiates a search through notaries' archives and libraries, and relying upon an abundance of documents and old newspapers, he begins to solve the mystery of the poet's suicide and his...

Yo sé que 2+2=4; pero tambien sé 2+2=1. Si partimos de este 1; podemos formar un universo infinito positive; y otro negativo. Ahora bien, la Integral que comprende estos 2 universos proyecta una sombra negra; siempre negra.

Las treinta batallas que derribaron imperios, frenaron invasiones, hicieron triunfar revoluciones y forjaron el mundo moderno tal y como lo conocemos. De Trafalgar a las Malvinas, de las Termópilas a Little Big Horn, de Navas de Tolosa a la batalla del Ebro, de las Cruzadas a Vietnam, de las legiones romanas a los tercios españoles, de los caballeros medievales a los kamikazes japoneses, Las grandes batallas de la historia es un apasionante viaje por los conflictos armados más famosos de la historia bélica mundial. Con la exhaustiva investigación de las fuentes y la amenidad divulgativa...