Salvador Sánchez-Terán.

A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of ...

El libro constituye una completa revisión de la biografía del gran humanista Antonio de Nebrija, para la que se ha acudido en todo momento a las fuentes bibliográficas y archivísticas originales, en no pocos casos desconocidas e inéditas. El resultado es una puesta al día de todo lo que sabemos sobre este ilustre profesor y filólogo que desarrollo su carrera durante el reinado de los Reyes Católicos.

The lives of Rita Marley and her husband Bob Marley are intimately shared in this look at their youths, their marriage, and the music that has made them legends. Beginning with her youth in the Trench Town ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Rita narrates her early encounters with the Wailing Wailers and how her relationship with Bob developed and changed as he transformed from local musician to international icon. This memoir emphasizes Rita's own musicianship, first as part of Bob Marley's backing vocalists, the I-Threes, and later her career after his death carrying on the musical legacy he began.

Varios neur�logos reciben un correo tan desconcertante que deciden contactar con el periodista Jon Ronson, autor de este libro, para tratar de resolver los enigmas que se esconden tras lo que acaban de conocer. Se trata de la historia de un preso que supuestamente fingi� una enfermedad mental para obtener una sentencia m�s leve, pero que en la actualidad sigue ingresado en un penal psiqui�trico porque ning�n m�dico cree que est� cuerdo. Jon Ronson decide, entonces, ahondar un poco m�s en el tema y ver qu� hay de cierto y qu� de mera especulaci�n en las diagnosis de...