Pepín Fernández, 1891-1982

La complejidad del periodo que se extiende desde el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en 1945, hasta nuestros días es tratada en este DICCIONARIO DE HISTORIA DEL MUNDO ACTUAL de forma didáctica en todos sus aspectos: políticos, geoestratégicos, sociales o económicos. En las más de 1.200 voces que contiene, PILAR TOBOSO SÁNCHEZ ha recogido los acontecimientos, hechos, procesos, organizaciones, partidos políticos y personajes que han tenido trascendencia significativa en el periodo, tanto en el ámbito español como internacional, de una forma sintética, lo que hace el volumen...

""No desperdicies tu dolor,"" dice Avis Goodhart, autora del libro: "'Sacada del Polvo: Alguien poco probable para ser misionera'. Ella no lo desperdicio - y tu tampoco deberias hacerlo." A pesar de un trasfondo de abuso infantil, dislexia e infidelidad matrimonial, Avis realizo su primer viaje internacional de misiones a la edad de cincuenta anos. La Iglesia, la Escuela y el Orfanato que ella fundo en el norte del Peru, fue el resultado tanto de su dolor como de su obediencia radical al Senor, sacando del polvo a miles de personas. Esta convincente historia es de una mujer comun y corriente, ...

"Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession."—The New York Times Book Review Just over a decade ago, journalist Michael Ruhlman donned a chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students at the Culinary Institute of America, the country's oldest and most influential cooking school. But The Making of a Chef is not just about holding a knife or slicing an onion; it's also about the nature and spirit of being a professional cook and the people who enter the profession. As Ruhlman—now an expert on...

On June 10th 1942 an enigma emerged that still mystifies literary Madrid until today. On that afternoon, the Gestapo arrested the journalist and candidate for Marquis, César González Ruano. Why was he detained in a military prison in Cherche Midi for seventy two days? Why did he never confess? Maybe it is because truth “has virtually no use"?

"Mi Vida...en uniforme" in English means "My Life ...in uniform" and is a sequel to my first book titled "Mi Calle, Mi Barrio,Mi Pueblo" which again translated to English means "My Street, My Neighborhood, My Town". Each one of those books narrates a distinct phase of my life with all the anecdotes, persons, and situations that formed me as a person. Mi Vida starts where Mi Calle ends and walks the reader while having a conversation, as good friends do, through my life as a college student and then as a United States Army Officer for twenty one years which included a war, Viet Nam, and a...