El Dalai Lama

"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...

Esta es la historia de Rudolf Hoss, uno de los peores criminales de guerra nazis. el autor se ha basado en las notas que el propio militar escribió durante su confinamiento en Cracovia desde que fue hecho prisionero luego de terminar la II Guerra Mundial

...Como era obligado, los niños pasábamos el tiempo de ocio con juegos en la calle, pues en aquellas viviendas minúsculas no se podía jugar con amigos, ni tampoco en los patios, porque molestábamos a los vecinos. En verano, como todas las casas estaban abiertas a algún portal, nos quedábamos sentados en un escalón de mármol fresquito como el que tenía la puerta de la casa número cuatro... hasta que salía la casera, que nos echaba, y nos íbamos a otro portal...

Fifty years ago Richard Bach made a promise to himself when he was a child: to write a book containing the sum of all he has learned and deliver it to his nine-year-old self, Dickie. He forgot his promise until one day. Whilst flying in his Delta Wing, he found Dickie, who expected him to fulfill his promise.