Salvador Allende

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Después de haber explorado en numerosas tradiciones iniciáticas de Oriente y Occidente, Ramiro Calle vuelca en este libro toda su experiencia como buscador espiritual: desde su infancia y las lecturas que lo marcaron, sus numerosos viajes a Asia, sus inicios en el yoga a los 15 años, su experiencia con diferentes métodos psicoterapéuticos, sus encuentros con los maestros de yoga y meditación más reconocidos del mundo todos los recuerdos de una vida dedicada a cultivar la paz interior. Por supuesto, el autor habla también de sus relaciones y las personas que más significaron en su...

Nacido en 1880 en el norte de México, Álvaro Obregón se convertiría en uno de los más prominentes líderes de la Revolución Mexicana, presidente de su país y artífice de la institucionalización del poder posrevolucionario. Famoso por nunca haber perdido una batalla —algo que pocos generales en la historia pueden presumir—, Álvaro Obregón poseía un agudo sentido del humor y una visión de estado como pocos