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A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless privilege. But the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett says that the only real inheritance handed down from his parents was a philosophy: Forge your own path in life. It is a creed that has allowed him to follow his own passions, establish his own identity, and reap his own successes. In Life Is What You Make It, Buffett expounds on the strong set of values given to him by his trusting and broadminded mother, his industrious and talented father, and the many life teachers he has met along the way.

Denuncia del proceso revisionista al que se ha sometido el periodo franquista en los últimos años desde ámbitos ajenos a la Historia.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, ex secretario general de la ONU, comparte los pasos de su largo camino en estas memorias excepcionales. Como secretario general de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en la difícil y decisiva década de 1980, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar fue testigo pero sobre todo protagonista de los grandes cambios políticos y económicos que configuraron un nuevo mundo. Sin embargo, estas Memorias van más allá de sus tareas internacionales y transitan con nostalgia y lucidez, entusiasmo y delicadeza, por recuerdos de familia, experiencias personales y reflexiones políticas, ...