Loretta Lynn

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

Instead of Forgetting rebuilds the intertwined memory of three families, the Ynsa's, the Pine's and the Bilbao's between 1872 and 1942. These years are not at random, the first one marks the start of the third Spanish Carlist War, after that, the establishment of the First Spanish Republic, and the second one, the strengthening of the Franco regime. With the backdrop of the Restoration, the monarchy of Alfonso the XIII, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Republic and the civil war, the reader follows little and great stories of characters, ancestors of the authors, that reflect a unique ...

Las historias personales de más de 20 "héroes" que desempeñaron un destacado papel durante la construcción, diseño y explosión de la mayor mina de la Primera Guerra Mundial en los Dolomitas, sobre la localidad de Cortina d'Ampezzo.

El matemático Manuel Sadosky (1914-2005) tiene ganado un merecido reconocimiento en la historia de la ciencia como “Padre de la computación en Argentina”. Su nombre suele aparecer asociado a Clementina, la descomunal computadora valvular que, junto a un pequeño grupo de científicos, fueron, en 1961, los primeros habitantes de la Ciudad Universitaria, entonces sólo un páramo bordeado por el río, en el extremo norte de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Sin embargo, Manuel Sadosky desborda los límites de la computación. En sus textos, en sus acciones públicas, indisolublemente entramadas...