Juana de Arco

This true story tells how twenty years after British troops died for democracy in the Falklands War, a British citizen would be forced to flee the Falklands to escape political corruption and death threats, to seek democracy and freedom of speech in Argentina. When a British biologist dared to connect the starvation of 5 million penguins to commercial fishing that was making the Falklands elite rich, a deadly game of cat and mouse was unleashed. Bungled attempts to deport, imprison and kill Bingham, landed the Falkland Islands Government in the Supreme Court, which ruled that the Governor,...

From the graphic novel experts Brian Williamson and Jim McCarthy comes a new explosive book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica. From their initial underground success to their Grammy wins and selling over 100 million albums, Metallica: Nothing Else Matters takes an emotional journey over two decades.

El Infante Fernando, último hijo varón de Juana la Loca, creció sin los cuidados de su madre, trastornada por la inesperada muerte de su esposo, Felipe el Hermoso. Nieto de los Reyes Católicos y de Maximiliano I de Habsburgo, Fernando nació y se educó en España, algo que jamás olvidó. Su abuelo Fernando el Católico quiso que reinara en Castilla y Aragón en lugar de Carlos V, pero finalmente hubo de emprender el exilio hacia la Corte de Gante donde residía su familia paterna. Y allí, rodeado de fieles consejeros españoles, logró crear el Imperio Austro Húngaro y convertirse en...

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...