Francisca Alvarez

Cynthia Ann Parkers family moved to Central Texas when she was about nine years old. A year later, a large force of Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker and seized Cynthia Ann and four other captives. The other four were eventually released, but she lived among the Indians for 25 years, immersed in the Comanche way of life. Though given a number of opportunities to go back to her white family, she always chose her life with the Comanche, choosing instead to stay with her husband and children. She eventually returned to white society as an adult.

Enciclopedia que descubre las curiosidades, costumbres y récords de los animales a través de espléndidas imágenes y rigurosos textos. ¿Quién es el animal más veloz?¿Cómo cazan los leones? Un libro que recoge, en definitiva, la lucha por la supervivencia en el mundo animal.

In June of 1870, Charles Dickens died before finishing his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The ending of that novel would become one of the great literary enigmas of all time. In 2018 the filmmaker Hugo Almagro agrees to write a script about The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Forensic Architecture es grupo internacional de investigadores que utiliza la arquitectura como herramienta metodológica para investigar conflictos armados, vulneración de derechos humanos y la destrucción medioambiental. Las investigaciones y textos críticos que se incluyen en el libro examinan cómo se produce -tecnológica, arquitectónica y estéticamente- la verdad pública, cómo puede utilizarse para confrontar la propaganda y los secretos de Estado, y cómo denunciar nuevas formas de violencia de Estado. Este libro, en cuyas páginas se recogen los orígenes, la historia, los...

Award-winning author Jorge Argueta treats young readers to a bilingual recipe/poem for the classic Latin American version of rice pudding with cinnamon. From sprinkling the rice into the pot to adding a waterfall of white milk followed by cinnamon sticks, salt stars, and sugar snow, Argueta’s recipe is both easy to follow and poetic. Lively illustrations by highly acclaimed Brazilian artist Fernando Vilela feature an enthusiastic young cook who finds no end of joy in making and then slurping up the rice pudding with his family. In Argueta’s world, cooking not only satisfies hunger with...