Mi vida en España, 1916-1936

When I saw the Peace Corps advertisement in my neighborhood post office, I couldn't think of any compelling reasons not to volunteer. teacher in Riverside, California and joined the Peace Corps. She was sent to a small village in Kenya, where she taught English in a girls' secondary school. Letters, journal entries, and anecdotes chronicle her experience.

Cayo Suetonio Tranquilo (h. 69-140 d. C.) nació cuando la dinastía de los Flavios subió al poder. En Roma, donde transcurrió gran parte de su vida, ejerció como secretario a sudies, a bibliothecis y al servicio de Trajano y secretario ab epistolae en la época de Adriano, cargo que le permitió el acceso a los archivos imperiales y la correspondencia entre César y Augusto, material que utilizó en sus Vidas de los doce Césares, su obra más conocida. Tiberio (42 a. C. -37 d. C.) fue emperador del Imperio romano desde el año 14 hasta el 37. A los nueve años perdió a su padre, y...

Gustavo Cisneros is one of the most successful business leaders in the history of Latin America. He took the major company built by his father, Diego Cisneros, and transformed it into a diversified, international powerhouse. Indeed, he was perhaps the first entrepreneur to see the potential of the U.S. Hispanic market, and he cofounded Univision, which would become the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. In his book, Pablo Bachelet narrates an engaging tale about the growth of an influential and complex entrepreneurial organization and the evolution of its leader....

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...