La soga y los ratones (El espejo del limbo II)

La figura de Mahoma, un humilde caravanero de La Meca que puso los cimientos de una religion de alcance mundial, ha suscitado siempre inacabables controversias. La experta Karen Armstrong comienza esta fascinante biografia explicando como, en la Arabia del siglo VII, en un ambiente politeista y politicamente desunido, Muhammad ibn Abdallah, Mahoma (570-632), vivio una experiencia mistica que cambio el curso de la historia: las revelaciones que pronto fructificarian en el Coran. Estudia despues los inicios de la nueva religion, el islam -palabra que significa "sumision" y "paz"-, y las...

She was the daughter of a single mother, a Hollywood movie star, the wife of one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, a cancer survivor. And she waged her greatest battle against her husband's Alzheimer's disease. Nancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life. Now, Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the 1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know. The Nancy Reagan with whom most Americans are familiar is a caricature shaped by consistently negative press coverage. But the Nancy Reagan whom Mike Deaver has come to know for more...

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Un maestro de historiadores nos brinda la elocuente y personal autohistoria de su vida y sus ideas. Países, recuerdos, familia, amores y amigos, éxitos, libros, trabajos, casas... Ochenta y cinco años (los que tenía su autor cuando este libro se publicó originalmente) dan para mucho. El genio de Lukacs, el mismo que anima sus extraordinarias obras históricas, es saber condensar esta larga vida dedicada a la literatura y la historia en unas páginas breves, ligeras, en las que desgrana a la vez el relato de su vida y su profunda visión de la historia y del conocimiento.