Levántate Mujer

Los últimos días de Immanuel Kant sigue siendo uno de los textos más singulares y elaborados de Thomas de Quincey. Gracias en buena medida a las memorias firmadas por Ehregott Wasianski, el ensayista inglés pudo prestar sus palabras al fiel amigo de Kant y relatar los últimos momentos del célebre filósofo ilustrado. Siguiendo meticulosamente el flujo de los acontecimientos, De Quincey nos da cuenta en sus páginas de las preocupaciones que invaden ahora a ese pobre espíritu en otro tiempo brillante. Atrapado por su vejez y por sus problemas de salud, el filósofo aparece retratado...

Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacher. Then Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple, and Michaela begins to take dance lessons. But life in the States isn't without difficulties. Unfortunately, tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America, too, and her past can feel like it's haunting her. The world...

Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and scandalised society. In 1933 she took her sister Unity to Germany; soon both had met the new German leader, Adolf...

La biografía de Cicely Saunders es una historia apasionante; es la historia de un compromiso, personal y profesional, para asumir el reto de no abandonar al enfermo al que la medicina ya no puede -porque no sabe- curar. La generosa determinación de esta inglesa del siglo XX ha sentado las bases de una revolución pacífica que ha cambiado el rostro de la muerte para miles de personas, gracias al nacimiento de los cuidados paliativos modernos y a un concepto novedoso de centro asistencial, conocido en todo el mundo como Movimiento Hospice. Cicely Saunders, Dama del Imperio Británico,...