Hay Victorias Que Parecen Derrotas... Pero Siguen Siendo Victorias

Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca y Miguel Hernández son cuatro de las mejores voces poéticas de la España del siglo XX. Unidos no solo por su absoluta dedicación a las letras, sino por su lealtad a la Segunda República, enarbolaron una defensa acendrada de la libertad y la democracia. El hispanista Ian Gibson realiza un recorrido por las intensas vidas de estos grandes poetas, con su compromiso republicano -y las nefastas consecuencias que tuvo en sus vidas- como eje central. Cuatro pilares fundamentales de la sociedad española del siglo XX silenciados con...

During 1994's World Cup in the United States, Joe McGinniss develops a passion that changes his life forever, going against North America's historical lack of interest in soccer as a whole. He discovers the intense emotions brought on by the sport and Italy's "calcio," succumbing to Roberto Baggio's style, which impresses and fails spectacularly in equal parts during that particular World Cup. Soon after, now a full-blown soccer convert, McGinniss understands the achievements of an underdog team from Castel di Sangro, a town of fewer than 5,000 residents lost within the rural Abruzos of...

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...

The renowned gay figure skater describes how he overcome such painful times as the deaths of his loved ones and his struggle with drugs and alcohol while presenting his experience with the universal determination to never quit. Reprint.