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Este libro de Carlos Tablada Pérez sintetiza en tres partes el recorrido vital de la Primera Bailarina del Ballet Nacional de Cuba, Viengsay Valdés Herrera. La obra parte de "Los cimientos" y cuenta el proceso formativo de Viengsay hasta convertirse en la figura estelar que es hoy. Al leer "El alma de raíz" nos acercamos al virtuosismo de esta bailarina en voces de reconocidas figuras de la escuela cubana de ballet y finaliza la biografía "Con luz propia", un retrato de lo que ha sido el éxito mundial de la Valdés. Recoge el libro el testimonio de figuras imprescindibles del ballet...

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...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

En este libro, Roland Barthes pretende explicarse a sí mismo a través de pequeños fragmentos sobre su vida y su obra. Estamos lejos, pues, del Barthes erudito y mucho más cerca del hombre que se ocultó tras aquellas obras fundamentales que, en el contexto de la Francia efervescente de los años sesenta y setenta, revolucionaron la visión de la literatura y el arte, el cine y la vida moderna en general. A través de imágenes escogidas por él mismo y de palabras certeras y concisas, Barthes dibuja un autorretrato completo y fascinante, en el que pasa revista a sus temas favoritos --los...