William Charles Wentworth by Janet Merkur. The Real Lives books are about famous people from the worlds of: Australian Politics and History; Sport; Film and Music. This book tells the story of the great explorer and politician William Charles Wentworth. It has many photographs related to his life and his exploration.
Matt Kilburn knows everything about baseball. He is grooming his friend Sanji Salaam to be a pitcher for the big leagues. But when he and his mother move to a farm outside of town, Matt has to leave his dreams of Bantam League and his friends behind. While Matt is exploring the barn in his new home, a knock on the head triggers a series of events that leads to a meeting with a ghost that changes his life and the future of baseball!
A blizzard of adventure! An avalanche of fast-paced, rockin' excitement! This is the true story of Albert Forest, who played in the Stanley Cup Finals at the age of 17 -- the youngest goalie ever to do so. Travel with Albert and his teammates as they journey more than 4,000 miles from the Yukon to Ottawa to compete for the Cup.
"It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness."
--Alice Walker
Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adrift in the wake of her mother's death, she longs for something meaningful to take her over. Then José Luis enters her life. A refugee from El Salvador and its bloody civil war, José has been smuggled to the United States as part of the sanctuary movement.
Mary cannot help but fall in love with the movement and the man. And little by little, she begins to reveal to José Luis the part of herself she has never known. . . .
"A book that becomes more timely every day, in our present political climate, and deserves the widest possible audience for its beautiful prose and humanitarian heart."
--Barbara Kingsolver
"Demetria Martínez has pulled out all the stops: here is truth to arouse any hardened heart; here is the 'insanity' of a woman in love calling forth a revolutionary lucidity. Read it. Get angry. And act."
--Luis J. Rodríguez, Author of Always Running
Examines the life styles of gay men and women and discusses the role of gay culture in mainstream society.
El Príncipe, de Nicolás de Maquiavelo (Florencia, 1469-1527) es, sin duda, un clásico en el sentido más literal del término, pero también uno de los libros peor entendidos de la historia de la literatura mundial. Baste pensar en el sentido negativo que en todas las lenguas se da a los términos "maquiavelismo" y "maquiavélico". Con ellos usualmente se designa un uso del poder político carente de prejuicios, en el que el fin justifica cualquier medio. No ha existido hombre poderoso en la tierra, desde Carlos V a Catalina de Médicis, de Luis XIV a Napoleón, hasta los dictadores de la época contemporánea, que no hayan sido acusados de leer secretamente El Príncipe para obtener consejo e inspiración. Sin embargo, puede decirse que Maquiavelo y el método de investigación que desarrolla significan para el origen del pensamiento político moderno lo que Leonardo da Vinci y el suyo significaron, en la misma época, para la ciencia. A partir de un vasto inventario de la historia de las épocas pasadas y de la contemporánea, Maquiavelo se esfuerza por extraer las relaciones, las constantes, aquellas leyes, en definitiva, que permiten los a los Estados, sean Repúblicas o Principados, durar o prosperar.
Esta edición va acompañada de los comentarios de Napoleón Bonaparte y precedida de una introducción del reconocido especialista Giuliano Procacci.
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