El fabricante de historias

Esta obra es una excelente biografía de uno de los personajes más carismáticos y conocidos de la historia europea de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, Napoleón Bonaparte, escrita con un estilo novelesco, propio de la pluma de Ludwig.

An oral history of four generations of Hispanic women in New Mexico. Twenty-one Hispanas recall life experiences spanning a period from the time when New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory until today. Themes include: the shift from a rural to an urban environment ; the struggle to preserve culture and traditions ; efforts to cope with discrimination ; changes in family relations ; the striving for education, job, and careers ; service to family and community ; dedication to social change.

Desde su participación en los productos que cambiaron las reglas del juego en las comunicaciones: el Apple II y la Macintosh; su terrible caída del pedestal y su regreso triunfal a la cima de Apple; hasta su relación con Pixar y el desarrollo del iPod, iPhone y iPad. El camino de Steve Jobs presenta las experiencias, los logros y los retos de este hombre que transformó al mundo de las comunicaciones, y ofrece al lector la oportunidad de aplicar esta gran experiencia en su vida personal y profesional.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...