La sociedad de la nieve

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

«El policía Mario Durán y sus vivencias existen de verdad, por eso no tienen la épica del héroe de la pantalla. Su relato es mucho más valioso por la honestidad y la generosidad de querer compartir su trayectoria con aquellos aspirantes a ser agentes, que podrán encontrar en estas páginas recursos prácticos para ingresar en el Cuerpo Nacional de Policía. También despeja las dudas para aquellos que ya en estas letras pueden apreciar si les merece la pena ingresar en una profesión que solo desde una profunda vocación puede hacer feliz a una persona. Al resto de los lectores, estas...

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as well as of older scholarship. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make...

This book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most famous earl of all time in his novel Dracula.