Nosotros y los otros

En la Guatemala del final de la Colonia una serie de personajes se van perfilando alrededor de Sanjuana. Desde sus encierros "voluntarios" esta mujer, terrena a la fuerza, incidirá en la vida privada y pública de una sociedad supersticiosa.

Un delgado predicador salido de la zona rural de Pennsylvania, armado únicamente con una cruz y con su fe, se apoderó del mundo bajo de la ciudad de Nueva York y de los capos de las drogas, y llevó a las calles de la ciudad más afectada por el crimen en todos los Estados Unidos, una combinación de amor disciplinario y del Evangelio, simbolizado en su historia — La Cruz y el Puñal. Esta es la historia de David Wilkerson, el hombre que creyó contra todas las posibilidades, que Dios podía hacer grandes cosas entre los rechazados e ignorados de la ciudad de Nueva York.

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.