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En Lem. Una vida fuera de este mundo, Wojciech Orliński recorre con lujo de detalles todos los pormenores de lo que fue indudablemente una vida intensa y emocionante: la vida de Stanisław Lem. Desde sus comienzos en la literatura hasta sus discusiones con Philip K. Dick, pasando por sus estratagemas para lograr que su familia escape del nazismo y sus inventos (muchos de ellos, alucinantes anticipaciones), Orliński también explora el costado emocional de Lem: su por momentos bajísima autoestima, e incluso los momentos en los que casi abandona la escritura, salvados por la aparición de...

How would you describe the every day life of little girls throughout history? What did they aspire to do? What were their greatest worries? This book focuses on 33 girls that have resided on every continent, in different cultures and ages. Every one of these girls has tried to understand the world around them and dreamt of a better future. This book transcends borders and time to discover what all of these little girls have had in common, despite their varying circumstances.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...

This is the true love story of Joni and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. A love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love ... in sickness and in health. Even the honeymoon wasn't easy. Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni, a quadriplegic woman? As their marriage years moved on, Ken became increasingly overwhelmed by the never-ceasing demands of caring for Joni, who begins to experience chronic, extreme, nightmarish pain. Ken sinks into depression, and the couple finds themselves on parallel tracks in life, married and living under...