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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...

¿Qué dice Aristóteles en París que no digan otras historias de la filosofía medieval? El autor caracteriza a los pensadores de aquel extenso periodo como abocados a una tarea: comprender de manera racional «el acontecimiento Cristo». En el proceso, el impacto de la concepción aristotélica de la ciencia, que sedujo a las mentes medievales como la gran tentación, ocupa un lugar central. En ese sentido, se muestra cómo el conocimiento del mundo natural, expresado por medio del lenguaje analítico, terminó por naturalizar la comprensión tradicional que de lo sobrenatural tenía la...

This is the first book to study the taina presence in Puerto Rican literature. It examines Fray Ramon Pane, Sadi Orsini Luiggi, Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Cayetano Coll y Toste, Rene Marques, Jaime Martinez Tolentino, Carlos Mendez Santos, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Enrique A. Laguerre and Manuel Mendez Ballester. The book is in Spanish.

"Beautifully produced compilation of essays on the society and city life of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. Urban historians will appreciate Juan José Sebreli's piece on the middle-class 'habitat' and Ernesto Goldar's on 'la mala vida.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.