Angela Merkel, la canciller eterna

This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about The main interest would depend upon what one gets out of it? Therefore I am writing some wise words of great masters which actually played vital rolls in my checkered life I hope my grandkids and/or readers would learn from my knocks in life, and how I overcame my nerve wrecking and dilapidating days of my scuffle with Lady death on more than two occasions. I am thankful to Lady Luck plus my attitude, and character built at childhood. Remember we have two ears and one mouth, use them as such. Guard your tongue,...

La autobiografía de Daniel Chavarría, el prolífico escritor uruguayo de profunda impronta cubana que en este libro presenta, para nuestro extremo deleite, la narración de su propia vida. Sus memorias son el relato más entretenido, sabio y desopilante que pueda llegar a nuestras manos.

Esta obra es un estudio exhaustivo de la evolución intelectual de José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), el gran latinoamericanista, pensador y estilista uruguayo. Su obra más célebre, Ariel (1900), surgió con la modernización en el Río de la Plata y el continente todo, mientras crecía la inmigración y la configuración del mundo cambiaba, inexorablemente. Eran tiempos más que propicios para reflexionar sobre la identidad y el futuro de América y, tal fue la pertinencia de su trabajo, que la obra se convirtió en un emblema de la primera mitad del siglo XX hispanoamericano. Gustavo San...

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she went on to produce brilliant paintings but remained in her husband’s shadow throughout her life. Today, almost six decades after her untimely death, Kahlo’s fame rivals that of Rivera and she has gained international acclaim as a path-breaking artist and a cultural icon. Cutting through “Fridamania,” this book explores Kahlo’s life, art, and legacies, while also scrutinizing the...