Ramon Llull

Gustavo Cisneros is one of the most successful business leaders in the history of Latin America. He took the major company built by his father, Diego Cisneros, and transformed it into a diversified, international powerhouse. Indeed, he was perhaps the first entrepreneur to see the potential of the U.S. Hispanic market, and he cofounded Univision, which would become the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. In his book, Pablo Bachelet narrates an engaging tale about the growth of an influential and complex entrepreneurial organization and the evolution of its leader....

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...

Las tumbas y yo narra la vida de julian rivera, periodista de oficio quien, al ver cercano el final de sus dias, decide contar todo lo que sabe sobre las entranas de la politica mexicana y sus conexiones con la politica internacional.

Jordi Pujol, que ha sido durante casi 25 años presidente de la Generalitat de Catalunya, sobresale entre el puñado de políticos que han configurado la España de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su fuerte personalidad -tan compleja y llena de matices muchas veces contradictorios- y su abigarrado cuerpo doctrinal e ideológico -en el que, de un modo muy particular, se funden nacionalismo catalán y pensamiento liberal con personalismo cristiano, europeísmo utópico y hasta con elementos propios del romanticismo alemán pero también de la épica y el mesianismo judíos-, son puestos al...