Nostradamus

Mujeres faro. Mujeres que iluminan un camino para que muchas otras puedan transitarlo. Mujeres que no encierran su luz propia; valientes y generosas, alumbran las sendas para que nunca más caminemos en tinieblas. Este bello libro presenta a 40 mujeres del continente americano, desde la Argentina hasta los Estados Unidos, de México al Brasil, pasando por Uruguay, Chile, Perú, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana... En las ciencias y las artes, la política y la educación, ellas fueron pioneras audaces, luminosas...

In this work the author focuses on early Hispanic churches built before the arrival of the Roman Liturgy and the Romanesque techniques by examining liturgical sculptural evidence. This material record provides a detailed understanding of both the functional and constructive features of the churches and leads to a definition of an archaeological methodology for surveying Late Antique and Early Medieval Hispanic churches, a methodology that enables a revision of the traditional historical model based on general stylistic elements that pay little or no attention to spatial context. To illustrate ...

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...

Chronicles the rapid decline of the city of Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, beginning in 2008 when more than twenty police officers were murdered, describing how drugs, globalization, corruption, and immigration have lead to increased violence and murder and created a dangerous city where crime runs rampant.