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"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...

“El sol volverá a salir mañana”. Es la frase y la consigna a la que Manuel Preciado Rebolledo ha tenido que aferrarse en no pocas ocasiones, cada vez que el balón o el destino le lesionaban el alma. Javier Barrio y Carlos Llamas, dos periodistas que siguen a pie de campo la actualidad informativa del Sporting de Gijón, encaran en este libro la figura deportiva y humana de uno de los entrenadores más carismáticos y respetados del fútbol español, que ha cumplido ya un lustro en el banquillo del equipo asturiano. Su infancia en Cantabria, sus inicios como futbolista, sus estudios...

La expresión «jarrones chinos» (que de tan valiosos, nadie sabe dónde ponerlos) dedicada a los expresidentes no es de Felipe González. La trajo Iñaki Anasagasti de Venezuela y es la excusa para hablar de cómo se pasa de ser un hombre poderoso a un florero o un jarrón chino político. Y sirve, además, para ver con los ojos de un portavoz parlamentario en qué ha consistido la transición desde la muerte de Franco hasta la presidencia de Mariano Rajoy. Por estas páginas, trufadas de anécdotas e ironía, conoceremos algo más de la biografía de Arias Navarro, cómo al presidente...

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