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Don Bosco: Historia y Carisma es una documentada reconstrucción de la vida y la época de san Juan Bosco. En su edición castellana la obra consta de tres volúmenes. El primer volumen de Don Bosco: Historia y Carisma abarca los treinta y cuatro primeros años de la vida del santo, es decir, desde su nacimiento en I Becchi (1815) hasta la consolidación de su obra, el Oratorio de Valdocco (1849).

Primera biografía completa del compositor Jaume Nunó (1824-1908), autor del himn o nacional de México, sumamente apreciado y admirado en este país, pero escasame nte conocido en su Cataluña natal. El hallazgo prácticamente fortuito de un arch ivo familiar de las afueras de Nueva York ha permitido a Cristian Canton y Raque l Tovar recuperar a esta interesante figura de la historia de la música. Coincid iendo con el año del bicentenario de la independencia mexicana, Casa América Cat aluña publica esta obra en colaboración con el Ayuntamiento de Sant Joan de lesA badesses y el...

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos's empire, once housed in a garage, now spans the globe. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos's ownership of The Washington Post, it's impossible to go a day without encountering...

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...