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A mediados del siglo XIX, el Observatorio de Harvard comenzó a emplear a mujeres como calculadoras o "computadoras humanas" para interpretar las observaciones que sus contrapartes masculinas realizaban por telescopio cada noche. Al principio este grupo incluía a las esposas, hermanas e hijas de los astrónomos residentes, pero pronto incluyó a graduadas de las nuevas universidades de mujeres Vassar, Wellesley y Smith. A medida que la fotografía transformaba la práctica de la astronomía, las damas pasaban de la computación a estudiar las estrellas capturadas en placas fotográficas de...

She spoke of God and miracles. In the 50 years of her ministry she possibly testified personally to 100,000,000 people about the love and the power of God. Wherever she went, people who thought that miracles were not possible, believed because of her. Before she died, she asked only for Jaime Buckingham to write her biography. Here we have the story, not of a holy person, but of a human -marriage, divorce, treason in her administrative work- with dark events surrounding her death. It is the story of Kathryn Kyhlman that no one knows, but that she wanted to reveal. The story of a red headed...

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Laleyenda del amante uruguayo de Lorca narrada por Santiago Roncagliolo, Premio Alfaguara 2006 En 1953, el escritor uruguayo Enrique Amorim erigió un misterioso monumento en la frontera entre Uruguay y Argentina. El memorial tenía la forma de una lápida, y en su interior Amorim enterró un osario. El discurso inaugural y la correspondencia posterior sugieren que ahí yacían los restos de Federico García Lorca. Este libro comienza con el enigma de este monumento y luego pasa al enigma del propio Amorim. Millonario pero comunista, escritor pero hacendado, homosexual pero casado, uruguayo...