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The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's...

Una obra de juventud de Félix Luna con una seria investigación historiográfica. Escrito en 1954 durante el gobierno justicialista, contrapone sutilmente la figura de Yrigoyen a la de Perón, reflejando su militancia política en el radicalismo.

Aunque de manera general las mujeres desempeñaron en la Grecia y Roma antiguas, dadas las condiciones socioculturales de la época, un papel modesto, en el caso de las figuras recogidas en este volumen se nos ofrece un panorama singularmente distinto. En un contexto cultural esencialmente masculino, las diez MUJERES DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD personajes literarios unas y estrictamente históricos en otros casos cuyas semblanzas se reúnen en estas páginas nos aportan un cúmulo de experiencias, situaciones y vivencias de extraordinario interés, siendo cada una de ellas un reto y un hito en nuestra...

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...