El sentido de la luz

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...

These compiled works by Mario Vargas Llosa include the author's most significant short novels. From his first work ever published, Los jefes, to the perverse and erotic Elogio de la madrastra, which was continued as Los cuadernos de Don Rigoberto. It also includes Los cachorros, ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? and El hablador.

The Cuban-born author and intellectual offers an intensely personal, poignant biography of Caruca, his late wife of sixty-six years, in an illustrated portrait of a remarkable love. (Biography)

Meses antes de morir, el general Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, escribió el siguiente documento, el cual tituló Ojeada sobre la situación política y militar de Colombia en 1878, y que, por la naturaleza de su contenido, fue un documento de trascendental relevancia en el momento de ser publicado. Y lo es ahora, para interpretar mejor la dinámica conflictiva de nuestra historia política. Less Como miembro del Partido Conservador, con ayuda del Ejército y del clero católico, Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera fue nombrado presidente de Nueva Granada en 1845. Dejó el cargo en 1849, y se dedicó a ...