Morir de amor

“Este no es un libro sobre la política de inmigración. En realidad, no es un libro sobre inmigración en absoluto. Trata de la falta de un hogar, no en el sentido tradicional, sino en el de la inestable deriva psicológica en que nos hallamos los inmigrantes indocumentados como yo. Este libro cuenta lo que es mentir y verse obligado a mentir para sobrevivir; y cuenta lo que es pasar como estadounidense y ciudadano de pro. Habla de las familias, de cómo mantenerlas juntas o, cuando eso no es posible, de verse obligado a formar familias nuevas. Este es un libro sobre vivir permanentemente...

"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...

En una época signada por la traición y la violencia, las trágicas muertes de sus protagonistas y la sucesión de hechos fundacionales, Justo José de Urquiza fue tal vez el último caudillo y el forjador de la nación argentina. Hernán Brienza relata esta historia con la pasión que los hechos merecen.

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...