Memorias de la Condesa de Espoz y Mina

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

La biografía de Elisa Giambelluca (1941-1986), corta en extensión y densa en contenido, podría ser semejante a la de cualquier mujer profesional de su época: una profesora de matemáticas y física en centros de Enseñanza Media y después directora de un Istituto Magistrale, semejante a lo que en España sería entonces una Escuela Normal para estudiantes de Magisterio. Nada de particular en esta italiana bajita y simpática, pero sus familiares y amigos, sus compañeros profesores y sus alumnos, reconocían en ella una difícil sencillez, una naturalidad, una ausencia de protagonismo,...

Vincent Sheean, a groundbreaking American foreign correspondent and author, is known for reporting from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, writing news reports, articles, and books. A few books and articles have described Vincent Sheean’s life, and briefly discussed his major nonfiction books. However, no book-length study or article has closely examined his nonfiction books. 'Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent Sheean', textually analyzes his five nonfiction, journalistic books to examine them for characteristics of literary journalism. Spanning nearly the entirety ...

From the graphic novel experts Brian Williamson and Jim McCarthy comes a new explosive book about the legendary heavy metal band Metallica that captures the essence and the troubles of the most successful metal band. From their initial underground success to a more commercial recognition, on into their Grammy wins and selling over 100 million albums, Metallica: Nothing Else Matters takes an emotional journey over two decades on the road and in the recording studio.