Los secretos del hombre más rico del mundo

Me odiaría cada mañana recorre con mirada irónica (aunque siempre benévola) el mundo del cine norteamericano desde los inicios del sonoro hasta las postrimerías del siglo xx; en sus páginas se recrean las gloriosas, ridículas y a veces miserables andanzas de personajes como Louis B. Meyer, Dalton Trumbo, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Bertolt Brecht, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Otto Preminger, Edward Dmytryk o Kirk Douglas. Pero estas memorias son también un ácido testimonio de una época dominada por el miedo durante la cual un Estado democrático ...

Las palabras que habitan este libro son una invitación a escuchar, a actuar. Se trata de palabras que mencionan lo que nos importa y nos incitan a buscarlo, a perseguirlo o a crearlo, porque su objetivo final es alentarnos a continuar adelante en la tarea de la vida, animarnos a vivir sin grandilocuencia, serena y reflexivamente. Desde un enfoque positivo y constructivo, Palabras a mano aborda preocupaciones comunes, personales y sociales, como la educación, la voluntad o el conocimiento de uno mismo. Sin caer en la formulación de recetas mágicas para escapar de las situaciones...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...