Alejandro

Durante las tres ltimas dcadas, Alan Siegel se ha convertido en una de las figuras ms reconocidas dentro del campo del branding y en acrrimo defensor de la comunicacin clara. Mientras se dedicaba a construir Siegel & Gale, una empresa lder en marcas, se destac como uno de los pilares del establishment, lo que no le impidi mostrarse, a la vez, como un iconoclasta provocativo. Su amplio radio de influencia incluye el brindar asesoramiento a organizaciones de la talla de Xerox, American Express, la Asociacin Nacional de Baloncesto (NBA), Caterpillar, las Girl Scouts, y The New School entre...

En las páginas de Hernán Cortés y su Nova Hispania están recogidas sus ambiciones, lógicas por una parte de aquellos años, que le llevó a convertirse en una alimaña sin escrúpulos. Aunque eran de menor calibre que los usados por Pizarro, Lope de Aguirre e infinidad de compañeros conquistadores. El autor considera justificada esta historia para colocar a su protagonista, Hernán Cortés en el lugar que le corresponde, no en la aureola de héroe. La historia le ha reconocido batallas , pero no sus actos que han desmerecido sus acciones, por muy heroicas que las considerara. A los...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...