Mi mamá me mima

Adolf Hitler quemaba libros... y leía El Quijote, Robinson Crusoe y Shakespeare. La destructiva ideología del dictador alemán se formó a partir de su biblioteca privada. El autor de esta obra, Timothy Ryback, nos descubre que una interpretación particular del poema de Ibsen, Peer Gynt, moldeó la ambición despiadada del líder nazi, y que admiraba El judío internacional, el tratado antisemita de Henry Ford. Ryback muestra cómo las lecturas de Hitler sobre religión y ciencias ocultas alimentaron su creencia en la providencia divina, o el proceso por el cual las palabras de Nietzsche...

Un abanico de mujeres, que con su singular forma de vivir, llenaron páginas de la historia en una Murcia deliciosamente provinciana. Unas veces despertaron admiración y otras causaron escándalo, pero nunca pasaron inadvertidas. Su mundo estuvo marcado por la época en que les toco vivir, por su raza, su religión o su oficio. Aquí tendrán ustedes un encuentro con santas y mozas de picos pardos, con "mujeres sabidoras" y "cómicas de la legua".

"CISEN, peak and decadence of Mexican espionage," is a journey through the activities of the Center of Investigation and National Security, the organism of the government's intelligence that since 1989 has been the main organ of civil espionage after the disappearance of DFS in 1985 and later of the DISEN (Office of Investigation and National Security). A great part of the activities of CISEN that are narrated in this book doesn't appear in the government's official speeches. In fact, the official version denies that CISEN is or has been carrying out the actions disclosed in here. ""This book ...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...