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Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile--no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccer's brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the world's most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan, and Paris Saint-Germain. But his life wasn't always so charmed. Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mother's household was engulfed...

En este libro Jacques Lafaye se avoca en desentrañar la trayectoria personal e intelectual de Octavio Paz, desde sus años de infancia en Mixcoac hasta su enfrentamiento ideológico con los poderes fácticos a través de las revistas Plural y Vuelta, sin dejar de ahondar en la influencia que tuvieron en él sus años como diplomático en Francia (entre 1945 y 1961) y que le permitieron dialogar con las más grandes figuras intelectuales de la época. Lafaye -quien fuera amigo y colaborador de Paz- no se limita al análisis poético, ni al simple relato biográfico, sino que logra adentrarse...

The renowned gay figure skater describes how he overcome such painful times as the deaths of his loved ones and his struggle with drugs and alcohol while presenting his experience with the universal determination to never quit. Reprint.

A Colombian politician kidnapped by the FARC guerilla group recounts her daily life in the jungle, where she has been locked up, tortured, and tormented by several leaders of the group.