Mentalidad Mamba

During 1994's World Cup in the United States, Joe McGinniss develops a passion that changes his life forever, going against North America's historical lack of interest in soccer as a whole. He discovers the intense emotions brought on by the sport and Italy's "calcio," succumbing to Roberto Baggio's style, which impresses and fails spectacularly in equal parts during that particular World Cup. Soon after, now a full-blown soccer convert, McGinniss understands the achievements of an underdog team from Castel di Sangro, a town of fewer than 5,000 residents lost within the rural Abruzos of...

El Otro Lihn explores the cultural endeavors of Enrique Lihn through a number of key viewpoints offered by professors, writers, artists, and family members. The voices of seventeen people explore the poet's critical posture toward Chilean and Latin American culture and describe in detail the many challenges Lihn faced when undertaking the creation of a heterogeneous body of work -poetry books, plays, novels, essays, videos, "happenings" and the comic book Roma, la loba. The interviews set Lihn's life and work against important Latin American historical events such as the repressive cultural...

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...

El 7 de octubre de 2012 el papa Benedicto XVI proclamó a san Juan de Ávila doctor de la Iglesia universal, a instancias de la Conferencia Episcopal Española, actora de la Causa. Es el cuarto santo español en alcanzar este título con san Isidoro de Sevilla, santa Teresa de Jesús y san Juan de la Cruz. Durante sus más de cuarenta años de ministerio sacerdotal, el Maestro Ávila fue padre en Cristo y un excepcional escritor ascético, contemporáneo y maestro, a la vez, de otros santos españoles del siglo XVI, tales como san Juan de Dios, san Ignacio de Loyola, san Francisco de Borja y...