La hora de Tomás Moro

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

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....

Este libro cuenta la vida de Richard Morales. Una vida signada por el sacrificio constante, algo de suerte y diversas casualidades. Pero es también la pintura de una época del fútbol uruguayo, muy distinta a la actual.

Es un estudio de historia intelectual española a través de la biografía del salmantino Federico de Onís (1885-1966), que fue catedrático de Literatura española en las universidades de Oviedo y Salamanca, antes de incorporarse a la Universidad de Columbia (Nueva York) en 1916. Desde ese puesto docente realizó una enorme tarea de difusión de la cultura española a la vez que la integraba en el conjunto de las culturas hispánicas de ambos lados del Atlántico. En esa tarea actuó como representante español de la Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios, y se convirtió en figura clave...