Vértigo Ménière

Combining interviews with Nina Simone's friends and colleagues with information from albums and Simone's autobiography, this in-depth biography portrays the racial discrimination, rejection, and abandonment Simone experienced, all of which left the legendary musician feeling betrayed and lonely. Nina Simone was one of jazz's greatest performers, but also a complex and troubled woman who verbally assaulted her audiences, reputedly had a loveless upbringing, suffered from mental illness, and fell victim to cutthroat music industry players. This first full-length biography of Simone is highly...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

Ricardo I de Inglaterra, más conocido como Ricardo Corazón de León (Oxford 1157-Chaluz 1199), rey guerrero amado por sus soldados y odiado por muchos, fue posiblemente el único rey europeo, junto con Federico II de Alemania y, antes, Carlomagno, admirado por los árabes. Conquistador como su tatarabuelo Guillermo de Normandía, que arrebató Inglaterra a anglos y sajones; político irascible como su padre Enrique II, responsable de la muerte de Tomás Becket; y trovador como su bisabuelo Guillermo IX de Aquitania, Ricardo Corazón de León ha pasado a la leyenda por derecho propio y,...

Federico, luego de un gravísimo accidente que lo mantuvo en el silencio, la inmovilidad y el encierro, hubo de recorrer un largo camino por el regreso a su hogar, a la familia, a los te quiero. Hoy, Federico es un SÍ en contra de incontables NO que tantas voces gritaron, demostrando que, en la vida, Nada está dicho.