Gabriela Mistral

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

Un libro sobre la fantas�a y los sue�os, sobre la locura y la pasi�n, sobre los miedos y las dudas de los escritores, pero tambi�n de los lectores. Este libro es una novela, un ensayo, una autobiograf�a. La loca de la casa es la obra m�s personal de Rosa Montero, un recorrido por los entresijos de la fantas�a, de la creaci�n art�stica y de los recuerdos m�s secretos. Es un cofre de mago del que emergen objetos inesperados y asombrosos. La autora emprende un viaje al interior en un juego narrativo lleno de sorpresas. En �l se mezclan literatura y vida en un c�ctel...

«… no importa los obstáculos que te encuentres, importa que te levantes, que luches, que nunca desistas, vida sólo hay una y tenemos la obligación de vivirla por todos aquellos que quisieron y la vida no se lo permitió». Lidia solo tiene diez años cuando, inesperadamente, sus padres se divorcian. Desde entonces, jamás nada en su vida volverá a ser igual. Aceptar los cambios no es nada fácil, siempre dividida, a medio camino entre el hogar de su infancia y la nueva casa de su padre donde, dentro de poco, el hombre da vida a una segunda familia, imitando el comportamiento de su...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...