Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (1607-1681)

El caso de Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) supone un buen ejemplo del papel secundario que siempre se ha otorgado a la mujer. Y es que, en lugar de por su propia obra, se la conoce por haber sido esposa de Ernest Hemingway.

I "write my songs/ so people can sing them to me/and the day people fail me/ that day I 'm going to cry... These are famous verses whose origin we are going to find out in this book, which rescues unknown anecdotes from the composer. Reading it is, in the words of his daughter Paloma, "go on singing his songs to do not fail him."

More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to inspire and mystify rock fans around the world. Pink Floyd FAQ, by pop culture author Stuart Shea, lays out the band's strange, winding history through a new series of prisms. What were the band's most memorable gigs? What are their greatest moments on record, as a group and individually? What contemporary records influenced them, and which performers follow in their wake? What was it like to be at a Pink Floyd show in 1967, in 1973, in 1980? Pink Floyd...

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,...