Policías de 1959

Literary Nonfiction. Spanish Language Text. Biography and memoir. Latino/Latina Studies. The long-awaited Spanish-language version of Trevino Hart's award-winning BAREFOOT HEART is a vivid account of growing up in a family of migrant farmworkers. This timely story based on Trevino Hart's own experiences starkly reveals the obstacles and challenges faced by field workers as they navigate a difficult life that is often in a hostile environment. CORAZÓN DESCALZO recounts how the author overcame adversity and disadvantage, discovered her true talents, and in the process found herself.

Christine Bryden was diagnosed with dementia in 1995, but her experiences do not reflect the mainstream discourse of loss of self while living with dementia. In this book she explains why people with dementia have a meaningful and continuing sense of self and calls for a different understanding of dementia that results in greater inclusion.

Cristóbal Colón fue el cronista de su propia hazaña: un viaje y un descubrimiento que cambiaron el mundo entero. Un documento fundamental para conocer y entender el descubrimiento de América, a partir de las dos versiones conocidas del diario de Cristóbal Colón: la de Hernando Colón y la de Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. En 1492, el mundo se desdobló: Cristóbal Colón realizó un viaje que desembocaría en el descubrimiento de América. Durante su travesía, el Almirante asumió el papel de cronista y redactó un puntual libro de bitácora, de méritos más notariales que literarios....

Discusses briefly the lives of well-known figures from ancient times to present and the events or accomplishments that made them famous.