Divino Compañero Del Camino

Las dictaduras de Hitler y Stalin, los dos regimentes mas letales de la historia, protagonizaron la guerra mas devastadora que jamas haya conocido la humanidad. Multiples paralelismos y semejanzas se han establecido entre nazismo y comunismo: el culto enfermizo al lider, las promesas de un futuro utopico, el terror como arma politica y la absoluta negacion de las libertades y derechos individuales. Sin embargo, el historiador Richard Overy analiza tambien las diferencias entre los dos sistemas, como el enfasis que Hitler puso en el nacionalismo y en el concepto de raza, y Stalin en la lucha...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...

Lifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by the different ramifications of knowledge.