Cartas de Pierre - Tomo I

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

The first authorized biography of the Dalai Lama - an alternately inspiring and shocking story - of an acclaimed Tibetan scholar, with privileged access to the subject of his book. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and those of no faith. However, due to all his fame around the world, he is often evasive. Alexander Norman - an acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of Tibetan history - offers the definitive biography, unique and unforgettable. The Dalai Lama recounts an incredible odyssey from a remote Tibetan village to his global position as...

En los siglos XV y XVI Italia era un puzle sangriento donde se libraban luchas por el poder entre ducados, reinos, repúblicas, marquesados, y el Papado. Alfonso V de Aragón conquistó el Reino de Nápoles escoltado por dos leales caballeros hijos del Condestable Dávalos. Íñigo fue nombrado Gran Camarlengo del Reino y se estableció en el Castell Aragonés de Ischia. A la primogénita de sus siete hijos la llamó Constanza. Años antes de nacer, su cuna la ocupó una criatura huérfana que, según pronóstico de los astrólogos, sería inmortal. El Rey fue informado del asesinato de la...

卡斯特罗是古巴社会主义革命的创始人，也是上世纪影响了世界政治格局的一位领袖人物。又因为古巴同中国同属于少数的社会主义阵营，卡斯特罗本人即使在国内也还是有很大的一批“粉丝”。本书正是由驻古巴大使夫妇创作，首次披露了大使夫妇二人与卡斯特罗的交往及卡斯特罗本人的趣事。读者所了解的卡斯特罗都是传记上的卡斯特罗，而不是生活中的为人朋友、为人父母、为人兄长的卡斯特罗。这是一本走进卡斯特罗的好书。