Cien figuras de la ciencia en Cuba

�Qui�n es Francisco? �C�mo hace un papa, al que los cardenales fueron a buscar "casi al fin del mundo", para transformar a la Iglesia? �C�mo se explica que se convirtiera en un l�der mundial con una habilidad pol�tica que impuls� tanto el debate de problemas urgentes como la soluci�n de viejos conflictos? Desde la Santa Sede, Francisco ha alzado la voz para denunciar las feroces consecuencias del cambio clim�tico y del capitalismo salvaje, la vulnerabilidad de los pobres, la trata de personas, el narcotr�fico, las mafias y la desgraciada marcha de millones de...

"Economic hit men,"" John Perkins writes,"" are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."" John Perkins should know-he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were...

«L’età classica della corrida finì un giorno del 1914 dal barbiere. Un giovanotto dalla bazza pronunciata entrò in un famoso salone della madrilena calle Sevilla e sistemandosi sulla poltrona ordinò: “Barba e capelli. Ma prima mi tagli il codino” [...] Era un matador di 22 anni in rapinosa ascesa [...] Voleva solo cortarse la coleta, anacronistico cascame settecentesco, prolungando sin nel look la rivoluzione modernista che aveva appena avviato nelle plazas de toros. Di lì in poi la storia della tauromachia si sarebbe divisa in un prima e un dopo Belmonte [...]. Ma in che cosa...

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...