La Sacudida que transformó a México

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...

"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...

Esta es la cautivante historia de Lionel Messi, la leyenda internacional del fútbol, desde su primer contacto con el balón en las calles de Rosario, Argentina, hasta su primer gol en el Camp Nou de Barcelona. Messi: su asombrosa historia nos ofrece la fascinante aventura de un muchacho nacido para practicar el más hermoso de los deportes y destinado a convertirse en el mejor jugador de fútbol de todos los tiempos.

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...