Georg Simmel

Poseedor de una de las plumas más notables e incisivas de nuestra lengua y pieza clave en la consolidación de las instituciones educativas de México, Jaime Torres Bodet nos lega en sus memorias un fiel testimonio de su paso por dichas instituciones y por el Servicio Exterior Mexicano. Ofrece una perspectiva amplia de su época, las personas y los acontecimientos que marcaron tres cuartas partes del siglo XX mexicano, pero también en la escena internacional, fruto de su labor diplomática. Este volumen da cuenta de sus primeros recuerdos de infancia, el despertar a las letras, la creación ...

Meet Cristina the superstar. The granddaughter of the foremost publishing czar in Cuba, she fled as an adolescent to the United States after the revolution. A young woman working her way up through the ranks of the North American-based Spanish-language media, she eventually assumed the reins of Cosmopolitan en Espanol. After ten years with Cosmopolitan, Cristina made the boldest move of her career - creating and hosting El Show de Cristina, the talk show she has developed into the phenomenon seen by 100 million worldwide. Friend and confidante to celebrities both inside and outside the...

26 historias que a su modo se truncaron y siguieron, que representan a las de millones de argentinos. Un retrato de aquellos días furiosos sin dejar de lado todo lo que pasó además desde entonces.

When two plainclothes policemen arrested champion cyclist David Millar in a restaurant near Biarritz in 2004 for doping, it marked the beginning of a two-year exile from cycling and the end of everything else: his multimillion dollar contract with one of the biggest teams in the sport, his opulent lifestyle, the support of his teammates and closest friends, and the gold medal he’d won months before at the world championships. This candid memoir follows a young and idealistic cyclist from the early-morning streets of Hong Kong to the highest echelons of the sport in France where, overcome by ...