Santa Teresa de Lisieux

Actriz de cine mudo en Hollywood, que más tarde sería fotógrafa de fama internacional. Inmersa en el frenesí del México postrevolucionario, Tina es amada por poetas y celebrada por Diego Rivera en sus murales.

The lives of Rita Marley and her husband Bob Marley are intimately shared in this look at their youths, their marriage, and the music that has made them legends. Beginning with her youth in the Trench Town ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Rita narrates her early encounters with the Wailing Wailers and how her relationship with Bob developed and changed as he transformed from local musician to international icon. This memoir emphasizes Rita's own musicianship, first as part of Bob Marley's backing vocalists, the I-Threes, and later her career after his death carrying on the musical legacy he began.

Legends with a turbulent past, Deep Purple is considered one of the most fundamental bands of Hard Rock. They have sold more than 100 million albums all over the world, but the ambition of some members--who went off on their own or formed new groups--has caused Deep Purple to go through numerous changes. Despite this, the purple machine has yet to stop, and this book chronicles their career from the original formation to the numerous acts created by old members.

La obra y el legado del excepcional hispanista George Ticknor (1791-1871) es el objeto de estudio en este volumen colectivo. Su amor a las lenguas clásicas y modernas comenzó en Dartmouth College (1807) y continuó durante su estancia de tres años en la universidad alemana de Gotinga, donde completó su educación con el notable historiador Friedrich Bouterwek. Tras una serie de viajes por Europa, incluida una estancia de seis meses en España, regresó a su Boston natal para hacerse cargo de la primera cátedra de lenguas románicas (francés y español) en Harvard. Durante casi dos...