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The lives of Rita Marley and her husband Bob Marley are intimately shared in this look at their youths, their marriage, and the music that has made them legends. Beginning with her youth in the Trench Town ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Rita narrates her early encounters with the Wailing Wailers and how her relationship with Bob developed and changed as he transformed from local musician to international icon. This memoir emphasizes Rita's own musicianship, first as part of Bob Marley's backing vocalists, the I-Threes, and later her career after his death carrying on the musical legacy he began.

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...

Esta semblanza y estudio de Fernando Arrabal escrita por Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier es un documento único sobre una de las figuras literarias más importantes de nuestra época.

Provides an overview of the life of Porfirio Diaz, discussing his terms as President of Mexico in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and his controversial role in Mexican history.