Madero

Presents a biography of ancient Ionian Greek mathematician, Pythagoras; and describes his contributions to philosophy and religious teaching in the late sixth century B.C.

Testimonio de Francisco Gonzalez Parga, miembro de la Legion de Cristo 1951-1971, quien fuera abusado sexual, mental y emocionalmente por el fundador, Marcial Maciel, desde la edad de 14 años. Sin saberlo, "el Hermano Parga", como se le conocía en la Legión, no se dio cuenta de que el pederasta taimador le reclutaba, no solo para el seminario sino para su harén de mancebos consagrados. Francisco, como otros seminaristas "privilegiados", creía tener una relación exclusiva y "caritativa" con el santo varón al ser llamado a aliviarle los dolores íntimos que Dios le enviaba como prueba...

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...

Pombo: a man of Che's guerrilla is a never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo - a member of Guevara's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of an epic chapter in the history of the Americas illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic ...