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Las doctoras británicas Flora Murray y Louisa Garrett Anderson lo dejaron todo cuando estalló la primera guerra mundial, incluyendo su lucha activa por el derecho al voto de la mujer, para trasladarse a Francia donde crearon dos pequeños hospitales militares. A pesar de que en su país las mujeres no podían atender a hombres, sus capacidades médicas y organizativas resultaron ser tan impresionantes que, en 1915, el Ministerio de la Guerra les pidió que regresaran a Londres y pusieran en marcha un nuevo hospital militar en un enorme y antiguo hospicio abandonado en la calle Endell de...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...

La proyeccion internacional de Almodovar ha hecho que intelectuales y criticos se interesen por su produccion. Su obra, reflejo de la sociedad actual, su personal narrativa, su estetica pop y los temas que trata han hecho de el uno de los realizadores mas originales de la decada. Estamos ante un genio del siglo xx consciente, inteligente, con un bagaje cultural propio que no admite imposiciones ni intromisiones en su obra. Seguido por el publico de forma incondicional, cada pelicula estrenada ha resultado mas y mas exitosa.