Cronica de mi Vida

A compilation of 304 biographical works of which the more important were published between 1602 and 1926, have been used to compile this archive which contain entries on 123,000 individuals. Approximately 50% of the material pertains exclusively to Spain and Portugal, the Balearic and Canary Islands.

El papel de Winston Churchill en la Segunda Guerra Mundial le garantizó un lugar destacado entre los grandes líderes del siglo XX. Hitchens, el gran disidente de todo, demuestra en este ensayo cuánto hay de real en su historia, y cuánto de construcción interesada de un mito. Ya mucho antes de morir, Winston Churchill se había convertido en un personaje de la Historia. En este iluminador ensayo Hitchens lanza su incisiva mirada sobre la construcción de ese mito y lo que explica sobre la necesidad humana de creer en causas elevadas y héroes que las defiendan.

Yo soy mi dios narra una historia de vida atrapante, inspiradora. Es un relato ágil, ameno, fluido y esperanzador. Una autobiografía con una profunda mirada introspectiva, de sanación, un manual sobre filosofía de vida, un canto a la amistad, una prueba de valentía, un exorcismo escrito de cómo aventar nuestros demonios internos.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...