Torres Villarroel

The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those Puerto Rican migrants who established themselves in New York City between the 1890s and the end of World War II-we capture a glimpse of their daily lives and of their individual and collective stories. This rich collection of images from the Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College helps to examine the history of the Puerto Rican community at a time when it was spreading its roots in New York City's social, political,...

Testigo de excepción, Churchill - primer ministro británico durante los períodos 1940-1945 y 1951-1955 - completa en este libro sus memorias sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial y relata los principales episodios en su fase decisiva (diciembre de 1941- agosto de 1945) - las operaciones anfibias en el norte de África, Sicilia e Italia, el día D, las conferencias entre Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña y la Rusia soviética, Pearl Harbour, la batalla de El Alamein, la caída de Mussolini, la liberación de Europa Occidental, el lanzamiento de la bomba atómica sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki, el...

«El collar de la paloma» (Tauq al-hamamah), traducido en 1967 al castellano por el estudioso del Islam Emilio García Gómez, es un «tratado sobre el amor y los amantes» de raíz neoplatónica que contiene una reflexión poética y autobiográfica, sobre las formas del amor profano y divino en la cultura musulmana. Escrita en una prosa elegante en que se insertan versos, esta obra influyó en las literaturas oriental y europea del Medioevo.

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