Garcia Marquez

This true story tells how twenty years after British troops died for democracy in the Falklands War, a British citizen would be forced to flee the Falklands to escape political corruption and death threats, to seek democracy and freedom of speech in Argentina. When a British biologist dared to connect the starvation of 5 million penguins to commercial fishing that was making the Falklands elite rich, a deadly game of cat and mouse was unleashed. Bungled attempts to deport, imprison and kill Bingham, landed the Falkland Islands Government in the Supreme Court, which ruled that the Governor,...

Años salvajes nos habla de una obsesión, la de William Finnegan con el surf. Finnegan comenzó a hacer surf de pequeño en Hawái y California. En los años setenta, tras finalizar sus estudios universitarios, su pasión le llevó a dejarlo todo y emprender un viaje iniciático por Samoa, Indonesia, Fiyi, Java, Australia y Sudáfrica. Este precario y singular viaje, por tierras cada vez más salvajes, y en el que varias veces estuvo al borde de la muerte, terminó llevándolo de vuelta a su país, donde se convertiría en un reconocido escritor y corresponsal de guerra. En Estados Unidos,...

"Dos espectaculares capturas. Dos sorprendentes huidas. La vida del poderoso narcotraficante Joaquain Archivaldo Guzmaan Loera, alias El Chapo, lejos llegao de su humilde nianez en la pequeana poblaciaon rural de La Tuna en Sinaloa, para convertirse en todo un varaon, un recio macho con las agallas para ser el capo maas rico, poderoso y buscado del planeta. Andraes Laopez Laopez una vez maas adentra a sus lectores al bajo mundo del narcotraafico. Con su estilo aunico, novelando hechos reales, el autor explora la vida de El Chapo a partir de las vivencias con sus mujeres y familia, las...

"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...