La felicidad de los españoles

Helen Walmsley-Johnson, popular columnist of The Vintage Years in The Guardian, examines aging from different points of view. She tells women that they should embrace the process, not feel forced to age gracefully, and tie their happiness into a number.

Los jóvenes mexicanos han forjado su pasado y su presente en un contexto marcado por fuertes y persistentes desigualdades sociales. El hilo conductor de este libro es la inquietud por analizar y explicar cómo estas inequidades se manifiestan en diferentes ámbitos sociales, en un momento clave del curso de la vida de los individuos: el proceso de transición a la adultez. Las vivencias y decisiones tomadas en esta fase dejan marcas indelebles en las trayectorias de vida de los jóvenes y condicionan sus derroteros futuros. La constatación de este hecho nos motivó a dar vida a una obra...

The objective of this research is to advance the understanding of the Egyptian Eastern Desert region petroglyphs by means of three steps: 1) To order and analyse the available data; 2) To compare the Eastern Desert petroglyphs with those of neighbouring regions and 3) To determine what the Eastern Desert petroglyphs can tell us about the people responsible for them. The study then move towards an interpretation of the petroglyphs in terms of what they can tell us about the origins and development of Egyptian society.

Carlos Monsiváis gathers a sample of characters that in different ways, unusual at times, illustrate facets of Mexican society. Thus, thanks to its particular style, musicians (Lara, Jiménez), high-class and high-class guys, spectacular figures (Fidel Velázquez, La Tigresa, Isela Vega, Siqueiros), a singular writer drowned by his ubiquitous figure (Novo) parade before the reader.), a master of mass ceremonies (Raúl Velasco) and the militants of the left who with their lives and deaths are the indispensable counterpoint of the love lost by Mexican history.