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Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camaguey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General de Indias in Spain. Ex-professor at the University of Havana and the Cuban Seminar (San Carlos), he is the author of 42 history books. Monsignor Roman was a holy man, totally given to virtue, as we can observe reading the events in his life, witnessed by the thousands of people who knew and revered him. It is for this reason that this...

Puerta del Este. Ensayos sobre mito, arte y pensamiento de la India contiene algunas breves reflexiones sobre diversos temas relacionados con el hinduismo, escritas por Elsa Cross a lo largo de muchos años. Los textos tienen un carácter introductorio y están destinados no al especialista sino a aquellas personas que tengan un interés en aquellos temas que tratan; de modo que no se da nada por sabido y se intenta que cualquier lector que se acerque al libro pueda seguir su lectura con relativa facilidad.

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En 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville se embarca con su amigo y compañero de la carrera judicial Gustave de Beaumont camino de Estados Unidos. Quince días en las soledades americanas es un apunte vital y evocador de una extraordinaria frescura que nos permite asistir al proceso de colonización estadounidense. En este caso no el de las praderas del medio Oeste, popularizado y mistificado ad nauseam por el cine, sino el de los inabarcables bosques de la región de los Grandes Lagos. En estos párrafos Tocqueville nos presenta un retrato en el que se entrelaza el proceso de construcción de la...