El sueño de Otto

Antes de que yo naciera, el ocano Atlntico era una inmensa regin plagada de terribles monstruos. Lo llamaban "el Mar Tenebroso," y nadie se adentraba en l si no era por accidente.Cuando yo nac, ya se haba comenzado a explorar algunas islas como las Azores y las Canarias, aunque los barcos todava preferan navegar bordeando la costa para no perder tierra de vista.Por el contrario, yo me intern en el mar ms lejos de tierra firme de lo que ningn ser humano haba navegado antes. Al principio, se burlaban de m. Despus de mi viaje por el Atlntico, todos siguieron mi ejemplo.

When her mother was worn out from caring for her five sisters, her father gave her lessons in brushwork and color. When polio kept her bedridden for nine months, drawing saved her from boredom. When a bus accident left her in unimaginable agony, her paintings expressed her pain and depression - and eventually, her joys and her loves. Over and over again, Frida Kahlo turned the challenges of her life into art. Now Jonah Winter and Ana Juan have drawn on both the art and the life to create a playful, insightful tribute to one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Viva Frida!

Condensada y selectiva, esta historia de la filosofía moral permite al lector situar los textos de ética en una perspectiva histórica, desde la generación homérica hasta los debates anglosajones contemporáneos. De este modo, el libro se ocupa de la mayoría de tipos y escuelas de la ética occidental: de los sofistas, de Sócrates y Platón, a la moderna filosofía moral, pasando por la ética de Aristóteles y la ética griega en general; el cristianismo, Lutero, Maquiavelo, Hobbes y Spinoza; las ideas británicas y francesas del siglo XVIII; Kant, Hegel y Marx; Kierkegaard y...

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...