Marcellin

This is a true testimony and a health warning that any abnormal symptom in our bodies could make the difference between life and death. We must fight for our lives and believe in our God and in medical treatments. Being positive is the best medicine. It will make us better warriors to win in the fight for our lives, the fight to stay close to our loved ones, and those who need us. This book reveals how cancer survivors make it through and is also an appeal to help and support them. I want to honor the Innovative Cancer Institute, the Miami Cancer Institute, all specialists, assistants, and...

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,...

La niña de la calle es una historia de la vida real. Relata el sufrimiento, la soledad y los malos tratos por los que tuvo que pasar la autora de este libro, María Jurado, en su más tierna infancia. El libro pretende poner de manifiesto la importancia de tener una familia amorosa y, sobre todo, de la voluntad personal; esa voluntad que condujo a esta niña de la calle a su propia salvación, a la búsqueda del amor propio y a prosperar como persona, pese a la dura realidad en la que le tocó vivir.

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 ...