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Susan Sontag was an American celebrity intellectual whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. In this biography, Daniel Schreiber portrays Sontag as a glamorous woman full of contradictions and explores the roles that she played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.

Dos mujeres intrépidas, un país conmovido y una carrera alrededor del mundo. El 14 de noviembre de 1889, Nely Bly, una joven y testaruda periodista que trabajaba en el periódico The World, de Joseph Pulitzer, dejó la ciudad de Nueva York a bordo de un barco de vapor con una clara intención: batir el récord del viaje más rápido alrededor del mundo. También ese día, aunque en tren y en dirección opuesta, salía Elizabeth Bisland, otra joven periodista de The Cosmopolitan con la misma intención. Cada una de ellas estaba decidida a emular la hazaña de Phileas Fogg, el famoso...

This book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most famous earl of all time in his novel Dracula.

Carlos Lozano, a multifaceted artist, had an intimate relationship with Dalí and was one of the few people who managed to join his, almost impenetrable, circle of friends. From that privileged proximity he narrates what he saw and felt: the phrases and extraordinary reflections of the painter, the wild and crazy parties, the luxuries and the capacity that Dalí had to turn everything into gold. Much more than a simple biography, these memoirs –written by the prestigious writer Clifford Thurlow- can be read with the pleasure and emotion.