La Suramrica que Recorr

Susan Sontag was an American celebrity intellectual whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. In this biography, Daniel Schreiber portrays Sontag as a glamorous woman full of contradictions and explores the roles that she played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.

La asombrosa historia del colombiano que llegó a trabajar hombro a hombro con Bill Gates. Orlando Ayala fue durante más de dos décadas pieza fundamental de Microsoft, tuvo cerca de 40.000 personas a su cargo en decenas de países y respondía por un presupuesto equivalente a la mitad del que controla el Gobierno de Colombia. Con un compromiso ético y humanitario, trabajó hombro a hombro con Bill Gates, a quien además aconsejó durante crisis y momentos coyunturales atravesados por el gigante tecnológico. Julio César Guzmán, autor de este libro, le siguió la pista a Ayala durante...

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Excerpt from Historia del Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion de Lima (1569-1820), Vol. 1 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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however,...