La música se resiste a morir: Frank Zappa. Biografía no autorizada

José Luis Trueba investigates the controversial life of the Tlaotani ("King" in Aztec culture) Moctezuma II, especially in the lesser-known events that preceded the Spanish conquests. From the dangerous circumstances of his birth to his encounter with Hernán Cortés, passing through his education, military career, and political actions, Moctezuma is a complex portrait of a man that passed from adored to defeated in dizzying succession.

Un libro de entrevistas revelador y apasionante. Landeros es, al decir de Emmanuel Caballo, un entrevistador nato y as lo demuestra en esta obra: llega hasta el fondo de la esencia de Elena Garro. Su estrategia es la de jugar con la frivolidad y la vanidad de ambos, pero nunca cae en lo superficial. Al final de sus entrevistas casi siempre logra lo que se propone: hacer un retrato fiel de Elena y sumergirnos en su mundo. Este libro nos entrega, con riqueza de recursos literarios, las excepcionales entrevistas que el autor realiz a lo largo de una amistad que cultivo durante ms de treinta aos...

The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more land and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of...

Instead of Forgetting rebuilds the intertwined memory of three families, the Ynsa's, the Pine's and the Bilbao's between 1872 and 1942. These years are not at random, the first one marks the start of the third Spanish Carlist War, after that, the establishment of the First Spanish Republic, and the second one, the strengthening of the Franco regime. With the backdrop of the Restoration, the monarchy of Alfonso the XIII, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Republic and the civil war, the reader follows little and great stories of characters, ancestors of the authors, that reflect a unique ...