Cien Grandes Papas, Sesde Pedro a la Actualidad

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

Las reflexiones de estos dos hombres, que en la política y en el ejercicio del poder parecen haberlo visto todo, se enfocan en esta serie de encuentros hacia un mismo punto: el horizonte. Uno es liberal, el otro socialista; uno defiende las razones del protocolo, el otro se ha encargado de dinamitar las formalidades de la autoridad; uno es colorado, el otro es de origen blanco; uno es traje y zapatos de suela, el otro, camisa leñadora y botas de trabajo. Los dos pasaron los 80 años de vida. Los dos fueron presidentes de la República Oriental del Uruguay y, por sus diferencias, son dos...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

En la accidentada historia del cine espanol tal vez haya sido el capitulo de la escenografia el que haya mostrado una consolidacion y un nivel profesional mas estable y digno, una vez superados los balbuceos primitivos del pionerismo. Jorge Gorostiza nos brinda una meticulosa y erudita historia de este arte y de sus protagonistos. Se trata de un texto rico y sin antecedentes en nuestro pais, que arroja nueva luz y aporta claves decisivas acerca del devenir de nuestro arte cinematografico. Una herramienta imprescindible, agil y amena, para el conocimiento del cine espanol.