Crónicas Jacobeas - Volumen III

Un exhaustivo y contundente trabajo de investigación histórica, sobre la misoginia que ha alimentado el mito de Jack el Destripador. Un true crime devastador. Una investigación seria, profunda y rigurosa.

Un apasionante relato a dos voces que descubre el mundo literario y personal de Esther y Oscar Tusquets, así como historias familiares desconocidas hasta ahora. Todas las facetas de su vida, privada, familiar y profesional, con sinceridad y sin tapujos. «Siempre preví que en este libro a cuatro manos descubriríamos muchas cosas acerca de nosotros dos, pero nunca sospeché que las sorpresas serían tan grandes y que me obligarían a modificar en parte la imagen que tenía de mi propio pasado.» Esther Tusquets Memorias de infancia y juventud. Tiempos que fueron es un apasionante relato a...

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...