La historia detrás de Luisito Rey

Poco antes de marcharse a luchar contra el fascismo en España en 1936, George Orwell plantó rosas. Hoy, esos rosales siguen prosperando. Solnit presenta un lado olvidado de Orwell, quien disfrutaba enormemente del mundo natural y encontraba en él un gran significado y valor. Ella explora las rosas en varios contextos, perspectivas y significados, siguiendo los contornos de la vida de Orwell y rastreando cuán profundamente enredado está el amor por la naturaleza en todos sus escritos.

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher. Then Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple, and Michaela begins to take dance lessons. But life in the States isn't without difficulties. Unfortunately, tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America, too, and her past can feel like it's haunting her. The world...

The private diaries record aspects of everyday life, woven together by the affective life, in an attempt to capture and contain them in words, and to retain them through writing. They originated as texts for exclusive personal use, but by subsequent developments, they have come to take another course and have been published posthumously, achieving completely different goals from those that initiated them. Such is the case of the two texts that are the subject of this edition: the diaries of Soledad Acosta Kemble and Jose Maria Samper Agudelo, written during four months and four days, before...

¿Te gustaría subir al Kilimanjaro? ¿Ganar un Ironman, el triatlón más duro del mundo? ¿Pedalear miles de kilómetros a lo largo de todo el mundo o meterte de lleno en una piscina para alcanzar tus propios récords personales? Este, es tu libro. No se trata de una biografía al uso aunque cuenta una gran historia; tampoco es un manual de autoayuda pero puede darte importantes pistas. En él encontrarás, sobre todo, un gran número de vivencias, consejos y experiencias, las de Enhamed Enhamed, uno de los mejores deportistas españoles de todos los tiempos. Cuando te sumerjas en su...