J.F. Kennedy y Marilyn Monroe

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. He met his Brazilian born wife Anita who becomed his companion-in-arms and heroine of the Risorgimento. She was just as brave as Garibaldi often fighting side by side with her hero husband. This book is about this love story, since much have been said of Guiseppe as a patriot, but not as a lover and father.

Describes the life and espionage career of Vera Atkins, a talented agent who rose to the top of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British secret service dedicated to aiding resistance efforts throughout Nazi-occupied Europe, focusing on her personal quest to uncover the fate of twelve female agents who vanished during the war. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Roth desencadenado dista de ser una simple biografía. Claudia Roth Pierpont explora la mente de Philip Roth en un viaje por la obra de este gran creador, uno de los escritores norteamericanos más polémicos y estimulantes de nuestro tiempo. El lector tiene entre sus manos el primer libro que trata en profundidad la vida y obra de uno de los escritores más célebres de nuestro tiempo, galardonado con el National Book Award, el Pulitzer y el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, y un creador único cuya relevancia se sustenta en una impecable trayectoria literaria que arrancó en los sesenta...

In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and settled most of that territory. He also brought a large group of settlers from Spain and Portugal whose impact on its cultural development was very significant. Many of those settlers were of Jewish descent and some of them were tried by the Inquisition for practicing the faith of their ancestors. This book is a biography of Carvajal...

La vida del beato Charles de Foucauld, nacido en Estrasburgo en 1848 y asesinado en Argelia en 1916, resulta ser el itinerario de un hombre polifacético, original y perennemente inquieto, que encuentra al fin cierto sosiego en el hallazgo de Jesús de Nazaret y en la vivencia de una espiritualidad propia. Foucauld fue primero militar, luego explorador y geógrafo de mérito y, mucho más tarde, lingüista experto en la lengua tuareg, además de antiesclavista con éxito. Pero sobre todo fue un hombre de Dios. Desde su conversión a los 28 años de edad, su existencia recorre distintas...