Jorge Millas: La Alegría de Pensar

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

New York Times Bestseller Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing Usama bin Ladin. From the subway...

Rigorously objective, journalist Joaquín Bardavío pens this monumental biography, the most complete among those that have been published about Franco and his time.

Contrapunto analítico y, en cierto modo, necesario a la brillante, pero un tanto errática y fragmentaria, autobiografía que escribiera el trompetista, de la mano de Quincy Troupe; proporcionándonos una equilibrada y muy amena relectura de la vida y obra de uno de los grandes íconos de la cultura y el arte del siglo XX. La edición revisada de este exhaustivo ejercicio de investigación -que ve la luz, por primera vez, en lengua castellana, en esta edición especial-, aporta nuevas y muy enriquecedoras aproximaciones a la vida y sin par carrera del más revolucionario e infatigable...