Biography & Memoirs

The biography of Cervantes is full of myths and legends. Professor José Manuel Lucía Megías, rescues the man Miguel de Cervantes in the last years of his life. This is the third volume that culminates the most current and complete biography of Miguel de...

Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint? Cynthia Bourgeault examines the Bible...

In this exhaustive and rigorous work the author collects the biographies of nineteen women who actively participated in the terror machine of Nazism. Did they have another way out? Yes. However, they chose to take the reins, follow orders and dress their actions with...

In the work Of the Light and the Shadows: GOYA, its author, Daniel José Carrasco de Jaime, embarks on an investigation in which we are presented with a different way of understanding art. As an expert in Goya, these pages constitute a true and...

This is the biography of Josep Lluís Sert, a Spanish architect with international acclaim. The book tells how he went to university in a Rolls Royce with a chauffeur, but developed a social conscience that he revealed in his architecture. The civil war and...

Koba the Fearful is a memoir, a chronicle, a meditation on Stalin and his legacy; a political book while remaining personal. It focuses on an important weak point of twentieth-century thought: the tolerance of Western intellectuals to communism. Between the personal start and the...

The Argentinian Bruno Gelber is one of the best pianists of the 20th century. He started playing at three years old, and his vocation was so strong that at seven, when he contracted polio, he asked his parents to fit the piano in bed....

This book starts with the meticulous description of a day in the life of an editor. And, from there, a complete journey through the secrets of the publishing sector and the evolution and the entrails of Anagrama since founded in 1969 until the present....

Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind. Nikola Tesla, uno de los...

This book is the autobiography of Alexander Lowen, creator of the therapeutic system known as Bioenergetics, and author of over a dozen books. The extraordinary experience in his rich life, the depth of his knowledge, and his sense of humor make this reading a...

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. It’s an intellectual journey as he inches his way...

The biography of Nelson Mandela, one of the great leaders of our time, an icon mainly because of his long struggle against apartheid, is still controversial. His efforts to bring the democracy to South Africa were not totally compensated during the four years he...

Juan Marse is one of the best Spanish writers of the late 20th Century. His books are real classics of our contemporary age like: Ultimas tardes con Teresa, Si te dicen que caí, Un día volveré, El embrujo de Shanghai o Rabos de lagartija....

The Biography of one of the great unknowns of history, Bernardo de Galvez. He marched on the right side of George Washington on the Independence Day of the United States in 1776, in recognition of his work and support for the American cause. Barack...

From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with Oliver Sacks' restless energy. He recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in...

Few historical figures have attracted the attention of historians as Carlos V. This biography of Emperor Charles depicts him from the standpoint of ruler, without neglecting his humanity. He was the most powerful monarch of his time; during his reign the earth was cirumnavegated...

This book introduces American readers to the international literary sensation that is the six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of literary originality that is intensely readable. / Karl Ove Knausgård está...

Most of Cervantes' biographers have tried to recount his character and his myth instead of the adventures of the man: the scarcity of documentary evidence about his life and the many references in his work seemed to indicate that this was the only way...

In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent. He was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Travels...

This book is the basis of an Italian-Argentinian film of the same name that premiered in Italy in December 2015 and in 2016 in the rest of the world. The film tells two moments in the life of the pontiff. One is during the...