La Arena Del Reloj

Presents the life and accomplishments of the Mexican dancer and choreographer who developed his own dance technique and created many dances, including "The Moor's Pavane."

New York Times Bestseller Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing Usama bin Ladin. From the subway...

En 2009, Clinton Romesha, de la sección Red Platoon, y el resto de la tropa Black Knight se preparaban para cerrar el Comando Outpost (COP) Keating, el más remoto e inaccesible de una serie de bases militares construidas por el ejército estadounidense en Nuristán y Kunar, con la esperanza de impedir que los insurgentes talibanes se moviesen libremente entre Afganistán y Pakistán. Keating se encontraba aislado y era demasiado difícil de defender. El 3 de octubre de 2009, 300 talibanes atacaron Keating con todos los recursos de que disponían. La batalla, que duró doce horas y es...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...