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Primera traducción de esta obra al español La influencia de los samuráis y de su código de Bushido en las costumbres y en la ética japonesas es incalculable. Estos "caballeros guerreros" surgieron en el siglo XII y tuvieron su auge durante los 700 años que duró la época feudal del sogunado, quedando sus pautas de conducta tan arraigadas en la sociedad japonesa que llegaron a conformar el espíritu nacional del Japón. El código del samuray data del siglo XVI y constituye un tratado único sobre las leyes y preceptos internos de estos aristócratas guerreros. Este código cubre todos...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.