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Dava Sobel, autora del best-seller de culto Longitud, recrea la vida de Copérnico, el hombre que se atrevió a decir, hace casi quinientos años, que la Tierra no era el centro del universo. Cómo lo supo, cómo lo intentó demostrar, cómo lo escribió... es una historia que Sobel convierte en una narración llena de encanto, la crónica de un hombre enfrentado a la ciencia, la religión y la sociedad de su época. Pero entonces aparece un segundo personaje, un joven admirador, aspirante a científico y astrónomo amateur, que oye aquella extraña teoría, lee lo que Copérnico ha escrito...

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Pope John Paul II is now universally considered to have been one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and possibly the most politically influential pope since St Peter. His achievements are well documented, yet he once said, 'I can only be understood from the inside.' In this vivid and accessible living portrait, O'Connor investigates the inner man, including Karol Wojtyla's life before he became Pope and his friendships with men and women, subtly analysing the Pope's own poems, plays and philosophical works for clues as to what made him tick. It also dramatically follows his life,...

Un hombre dotado del genio de Balzac, que gracias a una fantasía exuberante consigue colocar al lado del cosmos terrestre otro cosmos completo de su entera creación, muy rara vez será capaz de atenerse con todo rigor a la verdad cruda y desnuda en no pocos episodios de su vida privada, carentes por demás de toda importancia. En él, todo se subordina al arbitrio de su voluntad soberana y transformadora. Esta autocrática metamorfosis de muchos episodios de su existencia terrenal se inicia ya de modo característico en el hecho fundacional —digamos inalterable— de una existencia...