Ciencia y compromiso

Un desgarrador testimonio de primera mano sobre la experiencia de la esclavitud en Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX. Tal vez el mejor testimonio sobre la época más sombría de la historia estadounidense son las memorias de Solomon Northup, un afroamericano nacido como hombre libre en Nueva York, pero luego engañado, secuestrado y vendido, para acabar doce años esclavizado en varias plantaciones de Luisiana. Sus conmovedoras memorias, escritas después de su liberación en 1853, están introducidas en esta edición por el agudo estudio de la profesora e investigadora Marta Puxan-Oliva. Doce...

Antologia poètica de poesia cristiana que profunditza en temes socials i espirituals, característics de l'obra de Jacint Verdaguer. Aquesta col·lecció està dividida en dues parts, Els Pobres, en la que parla de pobresa, de caritat i de problemes socials, i Els Sants, en la que profunditza en les vides de diferents Sants catalans com Santa Rosalia o Sant Joan de la Salle. Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) era un capellà i va ser un dels principals impulsors de la poesía catalana del segle XIX. Amb deu anys va ingresar en un seminari, on va cursar els seus estudis eclesiàstics. Al 1965 va...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...