Toda una vida en la armada

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

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...

Manuel Murillo Toro dos veces presidente de Colombia, ideólogo liberal, estadista y periodista nació en Chaparral, el 1 de enero de 1816 y murió en Bogotá, el 26 de diciembre de 1880. Proveniente de un hogar de escasos recursos, realizó estudios primarios en su ciudad natal; los secundarios, gracias a la colaboración de algunos amigos pudientes, en el Colegio San Simón de Ibagué. Luego pasó a Bogotá a estudiar, la carrera de medicina que nunca terminó por dedicarse al Derecho. Para su manutención, como amanuense de Vicente Azuero. Gracias a Lino de Pombo, ministro de Relaciones...

"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...