'Excellent, meticulously researched biography' - The Guardian'Katie Prescott's account could hardly be bettered' - Literary Review'My book of the year' - Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator'A highly readable book' - Financial TimesNamed one of the Times and Sunday Times 'Best Books of 2025'A maverick outsider.
Passats deu anys de la seva mort (i cinquanta de la seva participació a Eurovisión), la projecció de Peret com a Rei de la Rumba no perd ni un bri de la seva singular grandesa, i així es pot veure en aquesta biografia, escrita amb el cor per Rogeli Herrero, un dels membres de Los Manolos.
Este libro ofrece una reconstrucción histórica y testimonial de los últimos años de Juan Domingo Perón, centrada en su regreso definitivo a la Argentina, el deterioro progresivo de su salud, el ejercicio de su tercera presidencia y los acontecimientos que rodearon su muerte y su funeral.
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen.
The National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple explores our modern world with "e;compassion, courage, and humor"e; (Booklist).
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.
La biografía de Miguel de Unamuno, su novela personal, su drama vital del que es dramaturgo, ocupa un lugar prominente en la historia contemporánea sociocultural y política de España.
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen 'warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.
"Tengo curiosidad por la curiosidad", así arranca este texto admirable en el que Alberto Manguel, guiado por una galería de pensadores, escritores y artistas, indaga en el que ha sido desde la noche de los tiempos el estímulo que impulsa nuestro conocimiento y también la tentación para adentrarnos en lo prohibido, lo oculto, lo peligroso.
'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, growing up in an extended family in Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of war.
In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John ClareIn 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough.
A dazzlingly original reassessment of the power and plurality of women's singing voices by the critically acclaimed author of Art Monsters and Scaffolding'It took me ten years to go from shy young girl to punk rocker, if I'd had this book I'd have got there much quicker Viv AlbertineFor millennia, women s raised voices have been heard as unruly, uncivilized, dangerous.
José Ortega Spottorno, el menor de los tres hijos de José Ortega y Gasset, compaginó a lo largo de toda su vida el empeño en conservar, difundir y, en su labor editorial, continuar la obra de su padre, reanudando las actividades de Revista de Occidente, e impulsando la creación de iniciativas propias.
Die Familiengeschichte des einflussreichen Komponisten als menschliche SagaRichard Wagner, der Schöpfer von Tristan und Isolde und der Nibelungen-Oper, verstand es wie kein anderer, Musik, Sprache und Dichtung zu einem einzigartigen Gesamtkunstwerk zu verschmelzen.
Na liña dos seus libros anteriores, "Atravesar o espello", "O Sol de Homero" e "Saudar a vida", esta nova proposta, "Todos somos Ulises (Por unha educación democrática e humanista)", constitúe o elo máis amplo dun ambicioso ciclo ensaístico que reflexiona sobre a transcendencia da escola e da educación, do coñecemento e da cultura nun momento histórico de difíciles retos para as persoas, os colectivos e as sociedades.
'Gripping and essential reading' - TIM SPECTOR'A compelling true crime story' - THE NEW YORK TIMES'Strips away the lies to show what's really happening in the world' - OLIVER BULLOUGH'Totally compelling' - ELIZABETH KOLBERTPlastic is everywhere in our daily lives.
What we have presented in this book is just a glimpse of many prophecies described centuries ago, meticulously detailing scientific truths unveiled only with modern advancements.
The Most Evil Person: Stephen Nash, the M'Naughton Rule, and American Justice On a November morning in 1956, a ten-year-old boy playing on a California beach accepted a stranger's offer of hamburgers and soft drinks.
He was a boy afraid of everything — the dark, the classroom, the outhouse crawling with roaches, the ruler in a teacher's hand, and the quiet belief that the world had already decided his limits.
Ese bar es un libro que rescata la memoria viva de un espacio entrañable donde la amistad, la música y la palabra compartida se transformaron en una forma de vida.
