Pedro Dorado Montero

Fascinating story of billionaire Cisneros, who turned a family business into a multinational entertainment conglomerate.

Biografía de Simón Bolívar, el libertador y presidente de Colombia entre 1819 y 1830. Bolívar se muestra como una de las principales figuras políticas del siglo XIX y como una de las personalidades más grandes de todos los tiempos. Vivió bajo el principio de que la libertad es un valor, que es mejor morir en libertad que vivir en esclavitud. Toda la esencia de su pensamiento político y militar tiene una vigencia muy evidente en nuestra época. Este trabajo narra las batallas que sellaron su gran obra de libertad: dar existencia a la Gran Colombia, libertar Perú y fundar Bolivia.

Biography of David Small, who grew up in a dysfunctional family, survived cancer which took his voice, and became an award-winning illustrator of children's books.

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...