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It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

Elena Ivánovna Roerich (1879–1955) es una notable pensadora rusa, entusiasta y literata, la herencia de la cual presenta un fenómeno único en el pensamiento científico y filosófico tanto ruso como universal. Los libros de la Ética Viva creados por ella se dedican a las cuestiones de la evolución cósmica humana y constituyen la obra principal de toda su vida. Su creación epistolar que se refiere directamente a estos libros, ha sentado una base firme para la eclosión de muchos de los procesos culturales y espirituales los cuales se desarrollaron durante el siglo XX.

Title: Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas. Author: Vicente Filísola Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin...

Composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes. Today's society, Buffett posits, has begun to replace a work ethic, relishing what you do, with a wealth ethic, honoring the payoff instead of the process. Yet, by focusing more on substance and less on reward, we can open doors of opportunity and strive toward a...