El drama de Varsovia

A founding member of the Black Eyed Peas shares the inspiring story of his rise from the streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame.

A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of ...

Esteban Mira Caballos, un historiador con una larga experiencia en la investigación de la conquista de América, nos ofrece en este libro una vida de Francisco Pizarro, basada en el empleo exhaustivo de las fuentes, y una nueva visión de la conquista del Perú: un drama en que los indígenas fueron diezmados por la combinación de la guerra, las enfermedades y el hambre, pero en el que también los conquistadores sufrieron las consecuencias de una serie de enfrentamientos internos, venganzas y traiciones, que condujeron a crímenes como aquel en que sucumbió el propio Francisco Pizarro. Lo ...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...