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La figura de Mahoma, un humilde caravanero de La Meca que puso los cimientos de una religion de alcance mundial, ha suscitado siempre inacabables controversias. La experta Karen Armstrong comienza esta fascinante biografia explicando como, en la Arabia del siglo VII, en un ambiente politeista y politicamente desunido, Muhammad ibn Abdallah, Mahoma (570-632), vivio una experiencia mistica que cambio el curso de la historia: las revelaciones que pronto fructificarian en el Coran. Estudia despues los inicios de la nueva religion, el islam -palabra que significa "sumision" y "paz"-, y las...

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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....

Basada en una serie de entrevistas personales y exclusivas con Alexander Solzhenitsyn, la biografía de Joseph Pearce sobre el famoso disidente ruso proporciona una visión profunda de una gran figura literaria y política del último siglo. Este libro recorre la vida del genial escritor ruso, viajando al corazón de un hombre que sufrió las peores torturas físicas y psicológicas: Desde su juventud procomunista hasta su encarcelamiento en campos de trabajos por criticar a Stalin, desde su exilio en Estados Unidos hasta su regreso a Rusia como un héroe, y sus críticas a los gobiernos de...