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Considerado entre los mejores libros de esta lúcida viajera empedernida, Rosita Forbes, Esas mujeres llamadas salvajes (Women called wild) se publicó originalmente en 1935 y reúne una sucesión de fascinantes retratos de "mujeres increíbles" a las que Forbes conoció durante sus primeros viajes en los que dio la vuelta al mundo. A medio camino entre el intrépido reportaje cosmopolita y la más cuidada prosa narrativa, desfilan mujeres esclavas de Abisinia o Arabia, revolucionarias chinas y soviéticas, bailarinas de la Guyana, sacerdotisas de Haití, una heroína turca, mujeres...

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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 ...

¿Quién es Francisco?¿Cómo hace un papa, al que los cardenales fueron a buscar "casi al fin del mundo", para transformar a la Iglesia?¿Cómo se explica que se convirtiera en un líder mundial con una habilidad política que impulsó tanto el debate de problemas urgentes como la solución de viejos conflictos? Desde la Santa Sede, Francisco ha alzado la voz para denunciar las feroces consecuencias del cambio climático y del capitalismo salvaje, la vulnerabilidad de los pobres, la trata de personas, el narcotráfico, las mafias y la desgraciada marcha de millones de refugiados e...