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La vida cotidiana del dibujante undergroundNazario Luque Vera came to Barcelona in 1972 with the firm intention to make a living by drawing comics. The young artist lived in the libertarian Barcelona during the last years of the Franco period and the beginning of the transition: hippies, shared apartments,...
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San Pablo. El apóstol más incomprendidoWhile we know little about some aspects of the life of St. Paul—his upbringing, the details of his death—his dramatic vision of God on the road to Damascus is one of the most powerful stories in the history of Christianity, and the life that...
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La madurez de CervantesIn his second volume of the biography of Miguel de Cervantes, professor José Manuel Lucía Megías places Cervantes on his return from captivity in Algiers, making a living as an officer of the court. He acted as a discreet messenger in Oran, a tax...
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Fidel castro (1926-2016). De luces y sombrasFidel Castro is one of the most overwhelming and Machiavellian political personalities of his generation. He will undoubtedly be remembered by part of the Cuban people and the world as a whole, for his years of autocratic and dictatorial government. / Fidel Castro, una...
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Ropa música chicosViv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes.., Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene....
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Soldado de tierra y marThe figure of general Pablo Morillo has oscillated between oblivion and hatred. A relegated hero of Spanish history that overcame his humble origins due to his enormous value. His career and biography are critical to understanding the whole history of that time, especially dispelling...
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Jane Austen en la intimidadOn the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her...
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Manfred von Richthofen, el Barón RojoAt 23 years of age, Manfred von Richthofen, who is a member of a traditional Prussian landowning family, was summoned to fight in the Second World War as a cavalry officer. However, Richthofen did not expect that his distinguished cavalry unit was pushed into...
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Rat Pack. Viviendo a su maneraIn 1960, the filming of Ocean's Eleven brought together five great artists in Las Vegas: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra. For two weeks they offered a series of memorable shows that would become the group popular, and...
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John Williams: vida y obraThis book goes on a deep and analytical journey around the personal and professional career of the English composer John Williams, who is the author of famous soundtracks such as ET, Star Wars or Indiana Jones. / Este libro pretende ofrecer al lector una...
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El día que mataron a ManoleteOne summer afternoon, some years after that fateful afternoon of August 1947 in which Manolete died, Tico Medina interviews the myth’s mother in the courtyard of his palace house in Cordoba. / Una tarde, años después de aquella en la que muere Manolete, Tico...
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Grandes maestros de la historia de la gastronomíaA compendium of the most outstanding characters in the history of food. We will know about the some experts’s life and feats in gastronomy, their involvement in their epoch, their historical repercussion and how their knowledge and experiences have transcended with the passage of...
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En el cuarto oscuroWhen feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father?long estranged and living in Hungary?had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga....
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Habla, memoriaSpeak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. / Habla,...
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Nikola TeslaThe Earth could be illuminated with free electricity and without wires! Nikola Tesla knew how. The most important inventions for the development of humanity (electricity, radar, radio, etc.) as we know it today have a forgotten father, Nikola Tesla. Discover his fascinating life through...
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Plano americanoThis very personal cartography includes disconcerting characters and enigmatic writers; the filmmaker Lucrecia Martel; Onetti's last wife; the singer-songwriter Facundo Cabral; the Argentinean editor Daniel Divinsky... the author proposes in each portrait a total immersion in the universe of a creator. The book is...
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Me olvidé de morirKhalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 90s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary musicians, but it wasn’t long before he found his way into the dark underbelly of the City of Angels. I Forgot to Die is...
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Pedro Menéndez de AvilésCalusas, timucuanos, guales, semínolas, creeks, were some of the tribes of Florida at the time when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés established there the settlement of San Agustín, the oldest city in the United States. Strong and ferocious warriors, who lived in almost permanent state...
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SénecaA moral, historical and political analysis of Seneca, beginning with his family origins in Cordoba and making his thought public through his treatises. An essential book for those who want to know how a man who was born in the most remote lands of...
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La hermana menorSilvina Ocampo is one of the most exquisite, talented figures of literature in Spanish. The meaning behind much of her work is a mystery; similarly, very little is known about her private life. In this book, Mariana Enriquez looks intensely at the life of...
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