Isabel II y la mujer en el siglo XIX

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...

Este libro supone un recorrido profundo y analitico a traves de la carrera personal y profesional del compositor ingles John Williams, compositor de las bandas sonoras tan famosas como ET, Star Wars o Indiana Jones.

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

La historia del siglo XX se refleja de forma admirable en los veinticuatro álbumes de Tintín, minuciosamente estudiados y analizados por Fernando Castillo en esta luminosa monografía, al mismo tiempo que da pormenorizada cuenta de la biografía de su creador, Georges Remi (1907-1983). Tintín-Hergé, una vida del siglo XX no es solo el fruto de un riguroso investigador, sino el singular homenaje de un apasionado admirador de Tintín y de la «línea clara».