¡No pasarán!

Discussions of the life of Torres Garcia and the development of his art are accompanied by vivid reproductions of his paintings, drawings, and sculptures

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Cuando la periodista Anita Botwin se fue a vivir a Uruguay, muy lejos de su familia y amigos, nunca se imaginó que recibiría una noticia que cambiaría su vida para siempre: sufría esclerosis múltiple. En este libro, la autora nos ofrece un testimonio sincero sobre el camino recorrido hasta aceptar la enfermedad; desde el descubrimiento de los primeros síntomas hasta su lucha por visibilizar la diversidad funcional. Y aprovecha para lanzar un encendido y estudiado alegato en favor de los servicios públicos. Todo ello a través de una escritura directa, cruda y poderosa. Un relato lleno...

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.