El proceso democrático de México

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

"Una nación llamada Venezuela", verdadero clásico del estudio de la historia en nuestro país, conoce una nueva edición, corregida y aumentada. En ella, al formato inicial de siete conferencias dictadas en la Cátedra Libre "Venezuela" de la Universidad Central de Venezuela en los años setenta, se suma una octava charla que complementa lo que ha sido y es el propósito fundamental de Germán Carrera Damas: proponer la posibilidad de una nueva perspectiva crítica para el estudio de la historia contemporánea de Venezuela, así como formular conceptos relativos al enfoque prospectivo del...

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...