La Vida de Un Hombre Común

Este penetrante retrato es la biografía psicológica de un hombre con una brillante carrera que ha arruinado Zimbabue y llenado de vergüenza al continente africano. La autora conversa con decenas de personas cercanas a Mugabe. Una peligrosa carrera que culmina con una entrevista al dictador en el palacio presidencial, un fortín casi inexpugnable para la prensa extranjera. Holland rastrea la autodestrucción de Mugabe, y destapa la complicidad en la tragedia zimbabuense de algunas de las más respetadas figuras internacionales. Sondeando el misterio de la lealtad de África hacia uno de sus ...

Carl Jung: su vida y su extensa obra intentan ser reflejadas en este libro como un primer acercamiento a un autor fundamental del pensamiento contemporáneo.

This is the updated biography of one of the great artists of our history who reached to transcend his time, Miguel Ángel Buonarroti. A man who triumphed in his time, who was revered by pope, princes and cardinals.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...