Memorias de 60 años de un comercial internacional

When two plainclothes policemen arrested champion cyclist David Millar in a restaurant near Biarritz in 2004 for doping, it marked the beginning of a two-year exile from cycling and the end of everything else: his multimillion dollar contract with one of the biggest teams in the sport, his opulent lifestyle, the support of his teammates and closest friends, and the gold medal he’d won months before at the world championships. This candid memoir follows a young and idealistic cyclist from the early-morning streets of Hong Kong to the highest echelons of the sport in France where, overcome by ...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

La infidelidad es, en no pocas ocasiones, la causa de que muchas parejas atraviesen una situación difícil. Fatalmente vinculada a la desconfianza, la aventura extramatrimonial -una vez confesada o descubierta- suele dinamitar los cimientos en que se fundan las relaciones, llevándolas en muchos casos hasta la separación o el divorcio.

Cementerio Municipal de Bilbao, 19 de noviembre de 1936. El pelotón de ejecución apunta a Wilhelm Wakonigg , el empresario que había sido cónsul honorífico de Austria y Hungría en la capital vizcaína durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. En los inicios de la Guerra Civil, Wakonigg había protagonizado el más famoso caso de espionaje que se ha producido en el territorio controlado por el Gobierno Vasco. El historiador José Luis de la Granja afirma: “El juicio del Tribunal Popular que tuvo mayor resonancia, por afectar a dos diplomáticos extranjeros, fue el llamado ‘caso Wakonigg’, ...