Isabel Bongard

This book is in Spanish (este libro está en español). See Dr. Gutierrez reading the introduction and first pages: http://youtu.be/dB_fcF7NRjA. Dr. Gutierrez wrote letters daily from a small town in the jungle to his parents during his Medical Internship in 1950 and 1951 in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. He was 23 years old and the only doctor for many miles around. He encountered a myriad of diseases and challenges among his patients and describes his experiences in great detail. There was tetanus, diphteria, malaria, firearms, machetes, venomous snakes, rain, heat, mud. He helped and saved...

Ambientada en la glamorosa ciudad de Las Vegas de 1970, Suerte a Favor es la historia de lucha para alcanzar la madurez de una niña fuerte nacida en un continuo ciclo de alcoholismo y abandono. Marlayna desarrolla un poderoso sentido de autopreservación en contraste con los derrotados adultos encargados de su cuidado. Su profunda historia explora los personajes y eventos que pueblan su vida mientras se muda de casa en casa, de un padre al otro, de familia en familia, quedándose finalmente sin hogar a la edad de catorce. De los recursos de su extraordinaria infancia emerge una fuerza...

Darrer volum de les obres completes de Jordi Rubió i Balaguer. El llibre està estructurat en quatre parts: la primera agrupa treballs sobre la història de la Universitat de Barcelona; la segona part recull alguns estudis sobre llengua i literatura; la tercera part és dedicada a llibres i llibreters, i la quarta aplega alguns pròlegs i articles curts, sobre temes molt diversos.

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...