Luchadores

Gustavo Cisneros is one of the most successful business leaders in the history of Latin America. He took the major company built by his father, Diego Cisneros, and transformed it into a diversified, international powerhouse. Indeed, he was perhaps the first entrepreneur to see the potential of the U.S. Hispanic market, and he cofounded Univision, which would become the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. In his book, Pablo Bachelet narrates an engaging tale about the growth of an influential and complex entrepreneurial organization and the evolution of its leader....

Este libro ofrece una mirada a algunas metáforas asociadas con la Revolución Científica de los siglos XVI y XVII. Se dirige a un público no especializado y puede servir como introducción general para estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado, en cursos de historia y filosofía de la ciencia moderna.

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

La vida intensa de una mujer que revolucionó la moda y la vida social del siglo XX: Coco Chanel. Narrar la vida de una persona que ha dejado solo unos pocos testimonios y que se ha preocupado por falsear una y otra vez su propia biografía no es una tarea sencilla. La intención de Charles-Roux, que escribió este texto a los pocos años de morir la artista, es ir más allá de la leyenda, y para eso decide aportar minuciosos datos biográficos pero también ahondar en las mentiras y contradicciones de esta gran dama. Su retrato de Chanel muestra el lado más genial y creativo de la...