Diario de una diva desquiciada

One of the closest disciples of Yogananda Paramhansa, the author of the best-selling classic Autobiography of a Yogi, shares the notes he took during his personal training by Paramhansa and during conversations by the Yogi with others, along with his own insightful commentaries.

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease. Thirty years after his death, AA continues to help millions of alcoholics recover from what had been commonly regarded as a hopeless addiction. Still, while Wilson was a visionary for millions, he was no saint. After cofounding Alcoholics Anonymous, he stayed sober for over thirty-five years, helping countless thousands rebuild their lives. But at the same time, Wilson suffered form debilitating bouts of clinical...

Lifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by the different ramifications of knowledge.

En este libro, Roland Barthes pretende explicarse a sí mismo a través de pequeños fragmentos sobre su vida y su obra. Estamos lejos, pues, del Barthes erudito y mucho más cerca del hombre que se ocultó tras aquellas obras fundamentales que, en el contexto de la Francia efervescente de los años sesenta y setenta, revolucionaron la visión de la literatura y el arte, el cine y la vida moderna en general. A través de imágenes escogidas por él mismo y de palabras certeras y concisas, Barthes dibuja un autorretrato completo y fascinante, en el que pasa revista a sus temas favoritos --los...