Versos Flores

On the 35th anniversary of his death comes the definitive biography of rock 'n' roll legend Jimi Hendrix-by the New York Times bestselling author Charles R. Cross oinciding with the 35th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's tragic death in 1970, Room Full of Mirrors is the definitive biography of rock 'n' roll's greatest guitarist. Meticulously researched and based on more than 300 interviews with those who knew him best-more than half of whom have never spoken about him before-this landmark book recounts the entire arc of Hendrix's life, from his troubled childhood in Seattle's projects and the...

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's...

El detective de ficción ha sido durante más de un siglo un icono de masas. Sus orígenes hay que buscarlos en un tipo de investigador que en la vida real era un simple trabajador asalariado, pero la industria cultural popular lo adoptó y lo transformó en un personaje duro y atractivo con un código moral propio.En este ensayo pionero, John Walton combina historia social y cultural para relatar el intrincado proceso de génesis y evolución de una leyenda, que tiene sus raíces en la creación de las primeras agencias de investigadores y que culmina con la edad dorada del género negro. Un ...

San Antonio de Padua, uno de los santos más populares, ocupa un lugar privilegiado entre los grandes predicadores del S. XIII. Sus palabras ejercían una influencia prodigiosa.