Estoy Viva

Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just...

I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...

Son ya célebres los libros de conversaciones que Eduardo Carrasco ha realizado con el pintor Roberto Matta, con el filósofo Roberto Torretti y con el publicista José Antonio Camacho. Ahora, en estas Conversaciones conmigo mismo lleva el género del diálogo a la reflexión de su propia experiencia vital, obteniendo una original y fascinante autobiografía. Aborda su vida con singular franqueza y coraje moral, sin soslayar las luces y sombras, éxitos y fracasos, alegrías y dolores de sí mismo y, de la convulsionada época que le tocó vivir.

Este libro es una reelaboración y ampliación de la 'biografía crítica' de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe publicada por Franz Schulze en 1985 (y traducida al español en 1986), que fue el primer estudio completo de este maestro de la arquitectura moderna. Con la incorporación como coautor de Edward Windhorst, esta segunda edición, totalmente revisada, presenta nuevas investigaciones y se apoya en los mejores trabajos recientes de estudiosos y críticos, tanto alemanes como norteamericanos. Los autores describen la trayectoria profesional de Mies desde su incorporación a la vanguardia moderna, ...