Cómo ganar el premio Nobel

Gustavo Cisneros is one of the most successful business leaders in the history of Latin America. He took the major company built by his father, Diego Cisneros, and transformed it into a diversified, international powerhouse. Indeed, he was perhaps the first entrepreneur to see the potential of the U.S. Hispanic market, and he cofounded Univision, which would become the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States. In his book, Pablo Bachelet narrates an engaging tale about the growth of an influential and complex entrepreneurial organization and the evolution of its leader....

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

Por fin acabó la larga espera para los millones de católicos colombianos: santa, tenemos una compatriota a quien encomendarnos. Y si alguien ha estado al tanto de este importante acontecimiento, anunciando incluso de forma anticipada su canonización, ha sido el autor de este libro, quien de manera amena y profunda indaga en las vicisitudes no solo de la vida de la madre Laura, sino en todas las circunstancias que han dado como feliz resultado el evento que se desarrolló en la plaza de San Pedro en Roma el 12 de mayo de 2013, del cual el lector encontrará acá los entre telones. Laura...

Excerpt from Apuntes Sobre la Vida y Viajes del Marino Alicantino D. Jorge Juan Santacilia: Memoria Así amaneció el siglo XVIII. Los pueblos como los individuos, necesitan una... fuerte sacudida. Que determina un movimiento de reacción, si han de verse libres del maras mo y de la indiferencia. Que les conducen á un inevitable aniquilamíento. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...