Cien empresarios madrileños

"Los libros pueden tener su origen en los más variados sentimientos. Se escriben libros al calor de un entusiasmo o por un sentimiento de gratitud, pero también la exasperación, la cólera y el despecho puede, a su vez, encender la pasión intelectual. En ocasiones, es la curiosidad quien da el impulso, la voluptuosidad psicológica de explicarse a sí mismo, escribiendo, unas figuras humanas o unos acontecimientos; Pero otras veces ‐demasiadas ‐ impelen a la producción motivos de índole más delicada, como la vanidad, el afán de lucro, la complacencia en sí mismo. En rigor, el que ...

Part literary criticism and part political commentary, this biography centers around well-known Catalonian author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and his life’s work, the most famous of which featured the character Detective Pepe Carvalho. Particular emphasis is placed on the author’s relationship with the city of Barcelona, a city to which he himself felt quite tied and from which many of his characters fled. Considered to be the most gifted portrayer of the city’s transition from the poverty and seediness of the 1960s to the artistic and cultural splendor of the 1990s, Vázquez Montalbán...

BTS es la banda más popular del fenómeno K-pop. Por primera vez, esta biografía no oficial cuenta la historia de este grupo de chicos coreanos que acarrea una legión de fans por el mundo entero.

This book has family stories that date back from 1875 to the present. Stories that took place at the rancherías (rural settlements) in the region of los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico, during and after the Cristero revolution. It recounts the ways of living, celebrations, and disciplines passed on from one generation to the next. The experiences of immigrant people and the challenges and opportunities they encounter in the United States. It talks about the pain families experience when they lose a loved one in another country and cannot physically be by their side. This book depicts the story of...