Irrepetibles

When flying an airplane was no more than a reckless act, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly cross the Atlantic and the Pacific alone. Besides her exploits as a pilot, she wrote three books and many articles reporting on her trips, and become one of the primary promoters of aviation. Her last adventure was to fly around the world. Before arriving at the second-to-last phase of her itinerary, a storm ended her life and that of her copilot, Frederick J. Noonan.

Poker Face es la primera biografía en profundidad de ese fenómeno cultural extraordinario llamado Lady Gaga. En poco menos de un año, Stefani Germanotta, una desconocida artista de la escena musical alternativa del Lower East Side neoyorquino, se convirtió en un icono de carácter global que responde al nombre de Lady Gaga. Artistas como ella -capaces de crear manifestaciones artísticas que mezclan la alta cultura, con la cultura pop, la vanguardia con lo más accesible, la autenticidad con el artificio- sólo se dan muy de vez en cuando. Pero ¿quién es, en realidad, Lady Gaga? Una...

Florentino Pérez, uno de los personajes más poderosos y ricos del país, ha marcado una época en el mundo de los negocios gracias al cultivo de las relaciones personales hasta límites inimaginables y la dedicación completa a ese amiguismo tan hispano, siempre en connivencia con el poder político y bordeando el tráfico de influencias.

Excerpt from Autobiography of Thomas Guthrie: And Memoir by His Sons, Rev. David K. Guthrie and Charles J. Guthrie Our first care was naturally with the Autobiography. Being unfinished and never revised, it became a question whether it should be published separately and as a frag ment, or incorporated with a completed memoir. The former was deemed the better course. For the sake of convenience, it has been broken up into chapters, and a few short notes appended but no alterations have been made in the text save such as seemed unavoidable from the circumstances, that Dr. Guthrie was prevented...