La música se resiste a morir: Frank Zappa. Biografía no autorizada

Al investigador literario Enrique Robertson nunca le convenció la idea de que el poeta había tomado su nombre del escritor Jan Neruda. Admirador de las historias de Conan Doyle, Robertson asume la tarea de resolver dicho misterio, y lo lleva a cabo de modo brillante: una investigación al estilo sherlockiano que no deja pista sin rastrear ni intuición sin atender, mientras recorre las vidas de un conjunto de personajes, reales o imaginarios, que ante la frenética indagatoria van allegándose, desde otros libros e historias, a este libro sorprendente en que las claves del enigma inaugural...

"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...

Vintage Herakles nace con la idea de ofrecer al público grandes éxitos de ayer sobre caza, aventuras e hitos deportivos publicados por esta editorial. Con esta idea, hemos querido respetar el diseño original para rendir así un homenaje al pasado. En leopardos den la noche Guy Muldoon relata sus aventuras y cacerías en las selvas africanas de Niassa.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...