El Régimen de las Malvinas

This true story tells how twenty years after British troops died for democracy in the Falklands War, a British citizen would be forced to flee the Falklands to escape political corruption and death threats, to seek democracy and freedom of speech in Argentina. When a British biologist dared to connect the starvation of 5 million penguins to commercial fishing that was making the Falklands elite rich, a deadly game of cat and mouse was unleashed. Bungled attempts to deport, imprison and kill Bingham, landed the Falkland Islands Government in the Supreme Court, which ruled that the Governor,...

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

"Cuando se escriba su biografía -sugería Javier Echevarría, Prelado del Opus Dei-, entre otros aspectos relevantes de su personalidad sobrenatural y humana, este habrá de ocupar un lugar destacado: el primer sucesor de san Josemaría (...) en el gobierno del Opus Dei fue -ante todo y sobre todo- un cristiano leal". Con esta pauta, el autor ha llevado a cabo un hondo trabajo de investigación, construyendo el texto sobre cartas, documentos y testimonios hasta ahora inéditos, y logrando una biografía conmovedora y rigurosa. Álvaro del Portillo (1914-1994) fue el gran apoyo del Fundador,...

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Marta, con diecinueve años, tuvo que hacer frente a un cáncer inoportuno y terminal que se llevó sus sueños por delante. Su madre desde la cercanía y la experiencia nos va contando paso a paso cómo fueron aquellos días en los que sentía que todo lo conocido se iba a desvanecer y cómo, aunque no lo parezca, siempre hay un espacio para la sanación personal y la esperanza. Ángela Ortiz, psicóloga desde hace más de veinticinco años, se sincera con nosotros y nos relata en primera persona, con sencillez y honestidad, la parte más brutal y dolorosa de su vida. Huyendo del victimismo...