La fábula de la montaña mágica

The greatest thinkers of humanity at your fingertips, in minutes! If you thought you would never be able to understand the essential classic authors, you were wrong! With our "Summarized Classics" collection, you will understand the main ideas of the most important thinkers in a very short time and with little effort. The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline. Among them, the reader will find an analysis of the following: Who Is Bourdieu, Some Properties Of The Fields, High Costume And High Culture, From The National Field To The International Field, Economy Of The...

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.

Esta Pequeña historia recorre la biografía del genial violoncelista Pablo Casals, desde su nacimiento en El Vendrell (Tarragona) hasta su exilio y muerte en Puerto Rico, pasando por sus mejores interpretaciones y su implicación en la defensa de los Derechos Humanos, incluyendo su célebre discurso en la sede de la ONU.

¿Qué queremos de nuestra vida? … “Deseo ser feliz”, “yo quiero ser exitoso”, “me encantaría casarme”, “quiero ayudar a otros”, etc. La clave no está en la meta, o en los medios que se crea tener para lograrla. Ciertamente la clave está ligada al “autoconocimiento”, este da paso a la chispa de la ilusión, que seguidamente despierta el fuego de la pasión. Finalmente, las acciones concretas y la capacidad de perseverar nos acercarán a eso que hemos dejado de soñar y hemos empezado a conquistar. Siendo solo un chico, Peter inicia una odisea en la cual la guerra, la...