Pasado y presente continuo de la memoria de los familiares de desaparecidos. El caso de Simón en Justicia y Paz

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...

This book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most famous earl of all time in his novel Dracula.

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...

Vida y obra del pianista chileno Claudio Arrau, contada en primera persona. En un lenguaje sencillo y acompañado de hermosas y simpáticas ilustraciones, acercan a los niños al conocimiento de este personaje. Narra desde su nacimiento en Chillán, su primer interés por la música, su primer concierto, su temprana partida a Alemania y así, los principales hitos tanto de su vida personal como de sus realizaciones musicales.