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

Porque nuestro mejor aliado contra los problemas de la vida cotidiana es nuestra capacidad de sonreír, este libro te enseña las claves para vivir con optimismo y buen humor.

Tras finalizar la Primera Guerra Mundial y la consiguiente derrota de los imperios centrales tuvieron que abdicar y exilarse por diversos países de Europa. La prematura muerte de su marido impuso a la emperatriz la obligación de cuidar y preocuparse del futuro de sus hijos de modo personal y con poca ayuda. La profunda formación cristiana que había recibido fue su baluarte para sobreponerse a las difíciles circunstancias. "Lo que siempre me impresionó de ella fue su serenidad, nacida de un total abandono en la Divina Providencia, de su obediencia a la enseñanza de la Iglesia y de su...

Here is the dime-novelesque biography of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the ñForty-Ninersî who flooded into the region during the California gold rush. In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various...

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...