Cien Grandes Papas, Sesde Pedro a la Actualidad

You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless privilege. But the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes. In Life Is What You Make It, Buffett expounds on the strong set of values given to him by his trusting and broadminded mother, his industrious and talented father, and the many life teachers he has met along the way.

The definitive biography of Spain's enigmatic king, a riveting work of late-twentieth-century history. Paul Preston, the author of the definitive biography Franco, explores the political and personal mysteries of the Spanish monarch's life in Juan Carlos, a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisite detail. Handed over to the Franco regime as a young boy, Juan Carlos was raised according to authoritarian traditions designed to make him a cornerstone of the dictatorship. How then did he later emerge as an emphatic defender of the democracy that began to form after Franco's death? In his...

The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the workings of his papacy and points to fundamental flaws - exacerbated by age and infirmity - that have alarming consequences for both the Catholic Church's future and John Paul II's successor.

Con acceso a los archivos del KGB, la CIA, y de los distintos gobiernos soviéticos, Rosemary Sullivan recompone las piezas de la increíble vida de Svetlana Alliluyeva, la hija mayor de Stalin, en una magistral biografía. Nacida durante los primeros años de la Unión Soviética, Svetlana creció dentro de los muros del Kremlin. Los altos cargos del Partido Comunista la protegieron del exterior ocultándole la hambruna y las purgas que arrasaban su país. Tras la muerte de su padre, y a medida que iba descubriendo la magnitud de la crueldad del régimen, Svetlana rompió su silencio y en...