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Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexico's first woman photographer, and her career is exceptional both for its remarkable range and for the compelling quality of her work. Approaching photography from multiple angles, she worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, and professional portraitist, while also creating intensely personal images of people, places, and things throughout her native Mexico. In addition, she played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene, as an inspiring teacher of photography, as friend of innumerable artists and writers (many of whom she photographed), and as...

"Por los caminos de Cien años de soledad es un recorrido emocionante por los sitios que sirvieron como base creativa para la novela más celebrada de Gabriel García Márquez. Aderezado con anécdotas deliciosas de la vida del nobel colombiano, con entrevistas a sus parientes y a sus amigos cercanos, con pasajes memorables de su infancia y de su adolescencia, este libro entreteje literatura y realidad para entregarnos un homenaje a la vez ágil, sagaz y conmovedor"--Publisher's description.

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...

La Asociación Mexicana para la Prevención de la Aterosclerosis y sus Complicaciones AMPAC. publica el libro titulado "Temas Selectos Relacionados con la Aterosclerosis Tratados por Experto" que nace con la idea de poner al alcance de los médicos y personas de las salud 40 temas de gran interés, actualizados y escritos de manera accesible por expertos que pertenecen a la AMPAC, con la intención de promover la Prevención de la Aterosclerosis, que es la principal causa de morbimortalidad en nuestro país.