Rafael: 815 books

Captain Blood is handsome, brilliant and skilled with his blade, always one step ahead of his enemies. Perils upon perils challenge him but with his faithful crew, ever willing to follow him into danger, he manages to be both chivalrous and victorious.

The first story The Messiah Who Might Have Been based on real events which take place in Siberia during the Cold War, when tensions between the Soviet Union and the USA affected the fates of ordinary people in a terrible way.

On the Edge is a monumental fresco of a brutal contemporary Spain in free fall On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain—a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt,...

**     Paris, November 13, 2015.** You love your wife so much that you decide to prove it to her by spending a romantic weekend in Paris together. After a magical day of museums, Bohemian neighborhoods and accordion music, you have dinner in an equally magical restaurant in where food is served...

MISTRUSTING the object of this gathering to which so secretly he had been bidden, Messer Graziani ambushed a half-score of his men about the street below, with orders to force their way into the house should he smash one of the windows as a signal. Therefore it was with a mind comparatively at ease...

During the early 1940s, young Mateos favorite pastime is exploring the mountains near his home. He and his friends have heard the rumors about the seven mysterious cities of Cibola where the walls and streets are covered with gold and gemstones and Aztlan, the ancestral homeland of the Aztec. The...

Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis. Klein was very much Freudian and Bion was both. There is undoubtedly a progressive epistemological evolution in their creativity; it will be similar to observe the same phenomenon...

En el volumen I, el autor exponía el rol que le atribuye a su propuesta: la ontología del lenguaje. Echeverría nos señala que ella se inscribe en un esfuerzo por ofrecer una interpretación del fenómeno humano, liberada de las premisas metafísicas que, desde fines de la Antigüedad y muy particularmente...

While the history of the Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has left a more complex legacy. Its original leaders, Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks, were Black Nationalists,...

Esta publicación refleja una multiplicidad de reflexiones sobre un espacio común: la razón de ser de las izquierdas. Se analizan los temas relativos al papel de la izquierda en América Latina y su influencia en los movimientos sociales. Las diversas aportaciones reunidas reflejan la pluralidad...

Este hombre de letras se recupera en la presente antología para los lectores del siglo XXI: Marginada por buena parte del siglo XX, la cultura mexicana decimonónica tuvo defensores eruditos y vehementes como el escritor, bibliófilo y explorador de las mentalidades Enrique Fernández Ledesma, autor...

The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a “machine made up of flesh and bones.” The body is acquired, achieved, and learned. It is thus full of mimetic and mnemonic implications. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. Gestures, corporeal...

A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noir Only a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto García — an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Mexican revolutionary, and classic anti-hero — is recruited by the Mexican police to...

Have you ever wondered where the stories about shamans come from? Is it possible they might be true? Gharmen is a book which answers some of these questions. You will realise that not everything we see and not all the people we meet, whom we regard as constants in our real world, have necessarily...