Cien Grandes Papas, Sesde Pedro a la Actualidad

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

Without the determination, magnetism, vision, good manners, respectable clothes, and financial security of Brian Epstein, no one would ever have heard of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. In Liverpool, in December 1961, Brian Epstein met the Beatles in his small office and signed a management deal. The rest may be history, but it’s a history that Epstein created, along with a blueprint for all pop groups since. Out of the public eye, Epstein was flamboyant and charismatic. He drank, gambled compulsively, and took drugs to excess. But people remember his wit, charm, and capacity to inspire...

An oral history of four generations of Hispanic women in New Mexico. Twenty-one Hispanas recall life experiences spanning a period from the time when New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory until today. Themes include: the shift from a rural to an urban environment ; the struggle to preserve culture and traditions ; efforts to cope with discrimination ; changes in family relations ; the striving for education, job, and careers ; service to family and community ; dedication to social change.

"Me gustaría mostrar en un libro todas las facetas: el pasado, el presente y también el vuelo hacia el futuro", decía en el prólogo de la edición original de este libro Luis Alberto Spinetta. Pasaron casi tres décadas y en el medio muchas cosas, más de las que se podrían contar. Quien lo hace hablar es, por ese entonces, un muy joven periodista que daba sus primeros pasos. Sin embargo, más allá de su agudeza, también se nota en sus intervenciones la admiración. Esa es la brújula que guía a Eduardo Berti en las charlas que entre septiembre y noviembre de 1988 dieron origen a...