Sal de tu tierra

Tells the story of Cayetano, the patron saint of gamblers and good fortune, who is a special favorite in the working class district of Liniers, northwest of Buenos Aires, where a church in his name is visited by thousands of pilgrims on his Feast Day of August 7 to pray for peace, food, and work.

"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."

"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...

La biografía de Mark Reinhard Mohn, fundador de Bertelsmann, en su centenario. Reinhard Mohn (1921-2009) está considerado como uno de los empresarios europeos de medios de comunicación más importantes del siglo XX. Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se hizo cargo del grupo editorial Bertelsmann y en las décadas siguientes marcó el rumbo para que la compañía se convirtiera en un grupo internacional de medios de comunicación. Desde la fundación del Círculo de Lectores de Bertelsmann en 1950 y su expansión internacional, hasta la compra de RTL o del grupo estadounidense Random House, su ...