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Excerpt from El Archivo Historico Nacional: Discursos Leidos Ante la Real Academia de la Historia en la Recepcion Publica De buen grado trazara aqui los rasgos mas salientes de la vida de mi ilustre antecesor, si esta docta Academia no hu biera confiado a uno de sus mas esclarecidos individuos la ta rea de escribir su panegirico; razon por la cual, limitandome a cumplir estrictamente el precepto reglamentario, entro en materia y paso a ocuparme del objeto predilecto de mis an ciones, del Archivo Historico Nacional, determinando, pri mero, las deficiencias de nuestra Historia; apuntando, des...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the cancer survivor who became a four-time Tour de France champ. ?In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he's a new father and a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. The book features a disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memoirs.? ?Publishers Weekly

A treinta años de la muerte de Borges, su viuda, María Kodama, presenta al gran público, por primera vez y a manera de homenaje, una selección de las cientos de conferencias que ha dado sobre él y su obra en todo el mundo. Kodama recorre tópicos indispensables de la obra borgeana y aspectos poco conocidos de la intimidad de Borges y de la relación que la unió a él desde sus dieciséis años.

The visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods... Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and interact until they merge in the trajectory of this author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most...