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Explores Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa's days at a Lima military school, the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, which would become the setting for one of his most important early works, The Time of the Hero.

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...

A history of 2,000 years of the Catholic Church through an examination of the men who led it, this book focuses on 100 of the 265 popes, from Peter to the present. It includes profiles of men such as Pope Gregory I, who became the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers; Pope Innocent III, who organized for the Fourth Crusade, which ultimately led to the sacking of Constantinople; and the most recent pope, Benedict XVI. Readers interested in the history of one of the most powerful institutions in world history will find this an important resource. Una historia de 2,000...

Los 33 es más que una gran crónica, es un libro escrito de manera vibrante y comprometida, que trasciende la mera anécdota y nos descubre a los seres humanos que hay detrás de las grandes epopeyas. Una serie de casualidades, los caprichos del destino y algunas decisiones de última hora hicieron que 33 hombres entrasen en la mina de San José (Chile) el 5 de agosto de 2010. Ni ellos ni sus familias imaginaron los acontecimientos que se sucederían más tarde. La historia de los 33 es un testimonio de fuerza y de supervivencia en condiciones extremas que pone de relieve la lucha...