Fidel Castro

En esta obra encontrará ocho historias de la vida real, donde se plasman los sentimientos, el sufrimiento, las penurias y las calamidades que viven un inmigrante ilegal en Estados Unidos. También resalta los valores de las familias mexicanas, el éxito y todo lo que tuvieron que hacer para alcanzar el llamado "sueño americano".

Una apasionante desmitificación de dos figuras legendarias: Cayo Julio César y Cleopatra. El célebre historiador y narrador alemán Philipp Vandenberg pinta un colorido cuadro de las costumbres de la época, al tiempo que familiariza al lector con los avatares de dos ciudades fundamentales de la Antigüedad: Roma y Alejandría. Él era un romano de la baja aristocracia, un hombre de leyes mediocre que se convirtió en emperador y ensanchó más que ningún otro las fronteras del imperio. Ella era una oscura princesa de origen macedonio, menos bella de lo que afirma la leyenda, y la mujer...

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

"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...