Los zapatos, mucho más que simples protectores de pies, representan un viaje fascinante a través de la historia de la humanidad. Desde las primeras pieles atadas como protección hasta los diseños innovadores y tecnológicos actuales, el calzado siempre ha estado presente, marcando la moda, expresando identidad y reflejando los cambios sociales y culturales de cada época. Aprenda mucho más...

"A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"

Food Sobriety is for anyone who wants to lose weight. More than a diet, it offers a philosophical alternative to the neurosis of our modern food culture based on the dietary traditions of rural Latin America.The science behind Food Sobriety is light and fun, while the recipes and menus provided are easy and inexpensive. What¿s more, while working to improve your health, you will be engaged in a spirited exploration of the intersection of diet, economics, social justice, racism, and exploitation.The Food Sobriety approach was inspired by the author¿s own experiences with weight loss while working in Nicaragua. Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, yet it has obesity rates on a par with the those in the USA. Only a generation ago, Nicaragua had near zero obesity. How this change happened so captivated author Dan Fenyvesi that he left his ordinary life as a dietitian and nutrition professor to spend three years in Nicaragua, including ¿ via a Fulbright Scholar grant ¿ a year teaching at the National University of Nicaragua.In Fenyvesi¿s studies, he found that Nicaraguans who still ate a traditional diet were slim and fit. Adopting elements of both their diet and their refreshing perspective on life, Fenyvesi has since helped hundreds of his North American patients lose weight.

Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.