PEDRO INFANTE A TRAVÉS DE "LAS MIL Y UNA PREGUNTAS"

My dad envies me. I've been an orphan since I was eight months old. Unfortunately, I was mistreated by a bad and envious father, and my whole life has been a torment with him. I will describe, in this book, my father as the person who has done the most harm to me throughout my life, for I have never encountered another person like him. Throughout my life, he has sabotaged my achievements, put me wrong with all the family and friends, and never wanted me to get ahead because he feels less than me. Of course, I have forgiven him for all the evil he has done to me, and I ask God to give him good ...

Vuelve la gran escritora brasileña de las últimas décadas y Premio Príncipe de Asturias. «Literatura pura, auténtica, íntegra, hecha a partir del amor a la palabra, a la vocación, al arte, a la belleza y a la creación.» Mario Vargas Llosa «Soy mujer, brasileña, escritora, cosmopolita, aldeana, un ser de todas partes, de todos los puertos.» Una furtiva lágrima es el diario luminoso, íntimo y singular de una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. En este collage impresionista, formado por las reflexiones y los retazos más lúcidos de una...

"Economic hit men,"" John Perkins writes,"" are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."" John Perkins should know-he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were...

La historia inacabada de Vicki Subirana arranca con el relato de las ilusiones de una joven maestra solidaria con una misión entre ceja y ceja, y culmina con la consolidación de un proyecto educativo universal para los más pobres y marginados en Nepal, para los que ha conseguido la enseñanza que cualquiera desearía para sus hijos en nuestro privilegiado mundo gracias al método Montessori. En su empeño por llevar a cabo sus ideales Vicki tuvo que lidiar con dificultades de todo tipo, y para evitar que la deportaran de Nepal aceptó incluso un matrimonio de conveniencia con un sherpa#...