Cómo llegué a ser la reina del hachís

The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion.

Describes the life and espionage career of Vera Atkins, a talented agent who rose to the top of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British secret service dedicated to aiding resistance efforts throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, focusing on her personal quest to uncover the fate of twelve female agents who vanished during the war. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Después de las palabras de salutación ofrecidas por Manuel Peimbert Sierra, el discurso de ingreso de Vicente Quirarte se desliza en tres secciones. En la primera el poeta agradece el ingreso a El Colegio Nacional y establece su plan de trabajo. La segunda —el cuerpo del discurso— se desarrolla sobre los tiempos idos: habla a la vez de la infancia y la juventud en la literatura, de autores jóvenes, de la juventud de otros autores, y de las influencias del propio autor, sin olvidar referencias también a la infancia de la nación. En la tercera parte, Quirarte aborda la idea del natural ...

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...