Torres Villarroel

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

For more than half a century, Cuba has suffered one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, where dozens of political prisoners are held in prison, and the entire population is locked up in a large penitentiary where neither dissent nor disagreement is forgiven, and the dissidents are punished with years in prison or death. It is a new oligarchic class, with a single political party, without elections, with an absolute disregard for Human Rights, without public and civil liberties, making it illegal to be part of the political opposition, with public education in the exclusive hands...

La organizacion magisterial, la intervencion del Estado en las escuelas particulares, eclesiasticas y publicas, el desayuno escolar, la educacion civica y la ensenanza activa que hoy parecen tan nuevos, son aqui el objeto de estudio.

Entre el versículo del Deuteronomio y el día de hoy median cuatro mil años durante los cuales la Historia de Israel se desenvuelve como una unidad en medio de vicisitudes terribles y dolorosas, una trayectoria sorprendente. De acuerdo con las leyes y tendencias que gobiernan el suceder histórico el Pueblo debería haber desaparecido pero Israel desafía las coordenadas de tiempo y espacio.