Lary, el tesón de una sirena

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...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) es uno de los científicos más importantes de todos los tiempos y, sin lugar a dudas, el más destacado de los españoles en una época en la que la ciencia era una de las grandes asignaturas olvidadas de nuestro país, donde imperaba el castizo "¡Que inventen ellos!". Nacido en Petilla de Aragón, hijo de un humilde médico de pueblo, Ramón y Cajal superó todos los obstáculos para desarrollar una prestigiosa carrera académica y erigirse en uno de los puntales de la ciencia biomédica, hasta recibir el Premio Nobel de Medicina y Fisiología en 1906....

Down and Out in Paris and London is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins. The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his...

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...