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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 ...

How would you describe the every day life of little girls throughout history? What did they aspire to do? What were their greatest worries? This book focuses on 33 girls that have resided on every continent, in different cultures and ages. Every one of these girls has tried to understand the world around them and dreamt of a better future. This book transcends borders and time to discover what all of these little girls have had in common, despite their varying circumstances.

Egypt's sun queen magnificently revealed in a new book by renowned Egyptologist, Aidan Dodson Nefertiti's name and face are perhaps the best known of any royal woman of ancient Egypt, yet for many she is little more than an icon or archetype of ancient beauty. However, recent research has fleshed out our knowledge--or at least credible hypotheses--about her life and career, pointing to her being an important political figure in her own right, rather than simply the principal spouse of the so-called "heretic king," Akhenaten, and mother-in-law (if not mother) of Tutankhamun. In Nefertiti,...

Para el Chile perplejo por Bachelet (entusiasmado o enrabiado por ella, fervoroso o resignado a ella), este trabajo periodístico de Andrea Insunza y Javier Ortega, publicado por primera vez en 2005, es más indispensable y más actual que nunca. En Chile las biografías sobre líderes políticos son escasas. Hay, sí, muchas hagiografías de campaña. También algunos pasquines de denuncia. Pero el periodismo de verdad, imparcial, riguroso, basado en un fino reporteo, es escaso. No es el nuestro un periodismo político con tradición biográfica.