Antonio Garrigues Walker

Most everyone has experienced a horrific event that left him or her with some sort of scar. Some tragedies, such as that author Jacqueline Worrell experienced, leave physical scars. Others leave, or become, emotional and mental scars. But the truth of the matter is, you have no control over the past and cannot let it dictate your future. Regardless of what has happened, you do not have to become bitter or angry like the person who hurt you. You can be better, if you open your heart and allow God to show you how those scars are a part of his purpose for your life. Join new author Jacqueline...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

¿Cómo Juan Carlos I, un rey con una fuerza icónica única en Europa, con un país a sus pies, con ciertos políticos cómplices, con dinero y con las mujeres más guapas del mundo, pudo jugárselo todo? En su carrera hacia el abismo fue dejando atrás familia, amigos, prestigio, honorabilidad… ¿Fue por una mujer? ¿Por amor al dinero? ¿Por inconsciencia o por arrogancia? Las respuestas están en este libro crudo, trepidante y conmovedor. Está todo: el rey y el hombre. El niño atemorizado, un juguete en manos de su padre y de Franco, el adolescente que mató accidentalmente a su...

En esta amplia y detallada historia, realizada sobre la base de exhaustivas investigaciones en archivos del Perú y de la Universidad de Yale, Christopher Heaney conduce al lector —en clave de gran reportaje combinado con relato de viajes— por los días finales del Imperio Inca, sus últimas ciudades, y hace una reflexión sobre las batallas que se dieron en torno a su futuro. Heaney retrata en toda su complejidad tanto a Hiram Bingham, historiador y explorador norteamericano que hizo famosa Machu Picchu en las páginas de la revista National Geographic, como a las propias ruinas,...