Nuevos habitantes del centro de Santiago

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...

Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as "enchanting" (The New York Times Book Review), "exuberant" (Elle), and "remarkable" (The Washington Post Book World). Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, Mernissi reveals her unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam...

Esta serie ofrece una metodología para la construcción de preguntas y pruebas escritas para evaluar competencias en matemáticas

La nueva arma mortal no esparce isótopos radioactivos: se llama medios de comunicación de masas que, en manos de unas cuantas corporaciones, manipulan a su antojo en función de sus intereses corporativos, en alianza con las más reaccionarias fuerzas políticas. Si cuatro décadas atrás se necesitaban de fuerzas armadas para imponer un modelo político, económico y social, hoy el escenario de guerra es simbólico: no hace falta tanques ni bayonetas sino el control de los medios de comunicación. El terror mediático -cartelizado, internacionalizado- se ha convertido en el disparador de...