El señor de la Corte

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

In the vast array and vitriol of our National Health debate , the doctors voice , especially that of the surgeon , is rarely solicited , and seldom heard . It is mostly the clamor of patients you hear or the rancor of politicians . This compendium of lifetime essays will restitute an imbalance that is long overdue . The collection speaks to how a practicing surgeon really feels about the vital medical issues of our day , and what needs to be done to improve his lifes work and his dedicated care for his patients . American medicine is at a desperate crossroads where the qualitative health of...

“Somos pioneras de Los Llanitos, después de Melchor Ocampo.” María Teresa Vizcaíno Con un lenguaje sencillo y ameno, las veinte mujeres protagonistas, nos relatan momentos de sus vidas, de sus familias y de su comunidad, correspondientes al periodo comprendido entre los años de 1930 y 1970, principalmente. A través de estos monólogos podremos conocer hechos y costumbres de los primeros pobladores de Melchor Ocampo del Balsas, hoy Lázaro Cárdenas, y de sus poblaciones aledañas en los estados de Guerrero y Michoacán. Es relevante descubrir que la mitad de las protagonistas son...

Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger. Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At one point, he even proposed marriage. In Frank & Marilyn, we follow Sinatra and Monroe from one explosive relationship to another, their marriages and love affairs...