Yo y la energía

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...

Reinaron, conspiraron, firmaron tratados, manejaron los hilos de la política y las artes entre bastidores, etc. Son las damas más inteligentes del siglo XVI. El trasfondo político del momento que les tocó vivir fue convulso: luchas intestinas entre las potencias europeas, intereses territoriales, negociaciones, tratados y alianzas con otras casas reinantes, casamientos como prebendas en la política reinante, etc. Todas ellas supieron ingeniárselas para salirse con la suya y ser admiradas y respetadas. Margarita de Habsburgo, hija del archiduque Maximiliano de Austria, acabó gobernando...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Um livro que fala sobre o amor entre marido e mulher, pais e fi lhos, irmãos e amigos... Um amor que cura, um amor que acolhe, que cuida, que perdoa, que não julga, que persiste... Um amor muito maior que todos os amores!