Refutación de la Donación de Constantino

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

This book, conceived as a tribute to Prof. Antonio Ramírez de Verger on the occasion of his retirement, contains a brief outline of his academic career, a complete list of his publications and a wide selection of his articles, reviews and book chapters published over four decades. These writings examine a variety of authors, such as Fronto, Corippus, Maximianus, Tibullus, Horace, Virgil, Tacitus, Catullus, Propertius, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ovid and Martial, and they also include contributions on various philological topics. El libro, concebido como homenaje al Prof. Ramírez de Verger...

La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días es una de las obras más divertidas y apasionantes de Julio Verne, el considerado “pionero de la ciencia ficción”, ya que en muchos de sus libros se anticipa imaginando progresos para la humanidad. La novela fue publicada por entregas en el periódico Le Temps, desde el 6 de noviembre hasta el 22 de diciembre de 1872, el mismo año en que se sitúa la acción. Después, sería publicada de manera íntegra en un libro, en el año 1873, y enseguida traducida y divulgada en innumerables ediciones. El libro cuenta las peripecias del británico Phileas Fogg ...

A beautiful metaphor about the history of mankind. Birds represent the ambitions of the people. Good intentions become perverted; but a gleam of hope shines on the horizon.