Sin miedo a la vida

Muchos libros han intentado explicar qué es la vida. Juanjo Sáez lo ha conseguido. "Éramos una familia. La Chispeta, la yaya, la mama, el papa y el tío José Manuel. Fueron ellos los que me enseñaron todo lo importante. Como, por ejemplo, qué es el tiempo y el universo. O qué significa crecer. O por qué es valiosa la libertad. O para qué sirven los sueños. Incluso hoy, cuando aprendo algo, es a los míos a quienes se lo cuento. Me da igual que ya no estén aquí, es con ellos con los que hablo del éxito y de la felicidad, y quienes me ayudan cuando la tristeza, el miedo y la rabia...

Outstanding figures who have shaped the path of history are profiled in these volumes. The biographies detail the subjects' childhood, motivation, accomplishments, and humanity, as well as their impact on history. Figuras destacadas que han protagonizado los hechos más importantes de la historia están retratados en estos bellos volúmenes económicos. Tan fascinante como los hechos que los hicieron famosos, estas biografías detallan los hechos conocidos acerca de los sujetos con énfasis en sus niñeces, sus motivaciones, sus triunfos y el impacto que tuvieron en la historia, revelando...

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...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...