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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 ...

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 ...

«Si alguien busca un panfleto, no lo encontrará en este libro», avisa Beatriz Sarlo a poco de comenzar, advertencia que cobra la fuerza de una revelación con el correr de las páginas. A Kirchner lo define un haz contradictorio: concentración, velocidad e inteligencia; tenacidad, conocimiento e impericia; fortuna y sangre fría; mezquindad con la oposición, sectarismo, encierro.

Los HISTORIADORES DE GRECIA Y ROMA Heródoto, Polibio, César, Salustio, Livio, Tucídides, Plutarco constituyen una de nuestras fuentes principales para el conocimiento del mundo antiguo. No obstante, existe una notable diferencia entre ellos y lo que hoy en día consideramos que debe ser un historiador, alguien a quien se exige una precisión en torno a los hechos y una valoración igualmente precisa sobre los mismos. Sumamente interesante para el curioso tanto de la historia como del mundo antiguo, el presente libro de MICHAEL GRANT ilustra de forma sintética y clara los principales...