Pasqual Maragall. Pensamiento y acción

In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control of her life. This life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she first auditioned for her to act. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would have done anything to make her mother happy. So she did what her mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five...

"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...

En estas paginas descubrimos a un Rene Favaloro pleno: con su grandeza espiritual y su permanente entrega, con su avidez intelectual y su lucha constante por mejorar (y depurar de actos corruptos) el sistema de salud en la Argentina. Pero tambien al hombre casero, que ansiaba la llegada del domingo para compartir con sus amigos; el mismo que tuvo una continua y dificultosa relacion con el poder y con sus representantes. Y por ultimo, el Favaloro del final, el que vio como, mientras el pais se derrumbaba, sus suenos se congelaban y eran presa de la rapina, el desmerito y el olvido. Carlos...

El fascinante y verdadero relato de la vida de Juan Carlos I, Rey de España. «Con Mi rey caído, Debray pasará a la historia como la gran biógrafa del Emérito». Ana S. Juárez, La Razón «Había una vez un príncipe, que era encantador, pero estaba maldito. Su nombre era Juan Carlos, o Juanito para los más cercanos. No era exactamente un príncipe, sino el nieto de un rey. Pero de un rey sin reino, obligado a vivir en el exilio. Su verdadero país, el que sus antepasados borbones gobernaron durante tres siglos, es España. Tras 40 años de poder dictatorial, Franco designó, en 1969,...