México, D. Familias

When two plainclothes policemen arrested champion cyclist David Millar in a restaurant near Biarritz in 2004 for doping, it marked the beginning of a two-year exile from cycling and the end of everything else: his multimillion dollar contract with one of the biggest teams in the sport, his opulent lifestyle, the support of his teammates and closest friends, and the gold medal he’d won months before at the world championships. This candid memoir follows a young and idealistic cyclist from the early-morning streets of Hong Kong to the highest echelons of the sport in France where, overcome by ...

Para comprar el libro de M xico, haga clic aqu www.amazon.mx Cuando Patricia trabaj en Planned Parenthood le dijeron: "Nunca le digas a nadie lo que vas a ver detr s de estas puertas." Ahora ella est cont ndolo al mundo. Sin embargo, "Transfigurada" es mucho m s que un maravilloso instrumento en las manos de los defensores y promotores de la vida y la castidad. Es la historia impresionante de la vida de una joven que se sinti abandonada por sus padres y que, luego de haberse realizado tres abortos y trabajado en una cl nica abortiva, se volvi adicta las anfetaminas y termin viviendo en las...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Una maestra en Katmandú, which inspired the movie directed by Icíar Bollaín, is a beautiful and rare love story and a fascinating travel journal. The still unfinished story of Vicki Subirana begins with the dreams of a socially-committed young teacher and culminates in the consolidation of a world-wide academic project for Nepal’s poor and marginalized population. In her quest to carry out her ideals, Vicki dealt with all kinds of obstacles: to avoid being deported, she even accepted a marriage of convenience to a Sherpa… a relationship that turned into a sweeping and passionate love...