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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the...
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"In this book, six top journalists, coordinated by Nayeli Roldán, recipient of the Ortega y Gasset Award, and the National Journalism Award in 2018, offer stories to portray, with combative sensibility, the current situation of women, the consequences of current public policies, the state of feminist struggle, and the envisioned scenarios [in Mexico]" --
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On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of desperation." After months of investigation, a 25-year-old Honduran-born woman named Karla Chavez was found responsible for leading the human trafficking cell that led to this grisly...
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Un libro brillante, furioso, radical, polémico; sale en el momento perfecto. Uno puede estar o no de acuerdo con las ideas que Chomsky plantea en este texto, pero, en cualquier caso, es un texto necesario y muy recomendable. / Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. He offers unexpected, nuanced...
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"Mario Alvarez, is an English professor seeking to reunite with his son, years after having sent him to the United States to seek a higher education. Mario's plans are seemingly ruined when his visa application is rejected due to the stricter policies implemented in the post 9/11 aftermath. Desperate to reunite with his son, Mario resorts to questionable measures to overcome the bureaucracy and corruption that stands between him and the visa. Along...
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"El presidente del Seminario del Sur revela cómo el secularismo se ha infiltrado en todos los aspectos de la sociedad y cómo los cristianos, equipados con el evangelio de Jesucristo, pueden enfrentarlo directamente con esperanza, confianza y convicción firme. Se avecina una tormenta. La civilización occidental y la iglesia cristiana se encuentran en un momento de gran peligro. La tormenta es una batalla de ideas que determinará el futuro de...
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Después de Una verdad incómoda, Gore recopiló los resultados de cuarenta años de experiencia como estudiante, político, escritor, cineasta, empresario y activista para describir y explicar de manera comprensible las soluciones reales al problema del calentamiento global. Galardonado con el premio Nobel por la paz en el 2007 por su trabajo y compromiso con el medioambiente, Gore sigue con su misión de definir las cuestiones urgentes que debemos...