El ocaso de los dragones no 02/02 La guerra de los dioses

Con todas las contradicciones de los grandes hombres -cruel y compasivo, audaz y conservador, obediente e indócil, enamorado y misógino-, Pedro de Ursúa es el resumen de las violentas pasiones que asolaron las Indias Occidentales.

Novela de un atractivo histórico poco común que, de la mano de Paul Alexander, un joven periodista norteamericano, nos descubre el ambiente social y cultural donde germinó y estalló la revolución, y cómo se desarrolló ante sus ojos atentos y su privilegiada presencia a la que el azar, o quizá el destino, había situado en una primera línea, a la que la portentosa y sugerente escritura de G. H. Guarch nos convoca para seguir y vivir el complejo entramado de vocación, fe, terror y aceptación del destino con que el pueblo ruso vivió uno de los episodios más extraordinarios de...

It's a familiar New York story: Joyce and Marshall Harriman's divorce battle escalates from a skirmish to a full-fledged territorial conflict, as both sue for custody of their coveted Brooklyn Heights co-op, and consequently they must both continue to inhabit italong with their two small children, "their divorce's civilian casualties." Minor acts of domestic terrorism have become an unavoidable part of their daily lives, so when September 11 happens, neither is immediately very jarred. In fact, each thinks the other dead, and celebrates. Far from putting things into perspective, the tragedy...

Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, Elzéard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence in the south of France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape-from one devoid of life, with miserable, contentious inhabitants, to one filled with the scent of flowers, the songs of birds, and fresh, flowing water.