Spinola. Capitán general de los Tercios

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

Through his leading role in the three Superman films, Christopher Reeve became so closely identified with the superhero that he wasn't just seen as the actor who played Superman, he was Superman. Which is why the tragic riding accident which left him paralysed from the neck down shocked the world. Superman was not superhuman. It is also why he is now the world's most recognisable person in a wheelchair. In true superhero style, Christopher Reeve refuses to resign himself to the life of a quadriplegic, and is actively campaigning to raise the profile of spinal-cord injury victims and research. ...

La historia del siglo XX se refleja de forma admirable en los veinticuatro álbumes de Tintín, minuciosamente estudiados y analizados por Fernando Castillo en esta luminosa monografía, al mismo tiempo que da pormenorizada cuenta de la biografía de su creador, Georges Remi (1907-1983). Tintín-Hergé, una vida del siglo XX no es solo el fruto de un riguroso investigador, sino el singular homenaje de un apasionado admirador de Tintín y de la «línea clara».

El jugador, escrita en 1866 y publicada en 1867, refleja la propia adicción de Dostoyevski al juego de la ruleta durante su estancia en Wiesbaden, presentada como la ciudad ficticia de Roulettenbourg de la novela;​ y su pasional estadía en Europa con Apollinaria (Polina) Prokófievna Súslova, de quien se enamoró perdidamente. El jugador contiene todas las características de sus novelas más famosas: dramatismo, tensión casi intolerable, agresividad y revelación punzante y sutil de estados anímicos vividos y superados por el genial escritor. Dos pasiones principales campean en este...