Títulos en Biografías y memorias

La ternura es uno de los rasgos más característicos del papa Francisco y, sin duda, uno de los que más conmueven e interesan a los fieles. El papa de la ternura relata trece manifestaciones conmovedoras del afecto del papa con distintas personas: una prostituta esclava nigeriana liberada, las...

A leading industrialist of the 19th and 20th centuries, Andrew Carnegie was one of America's most successful and generous businessmen. The autobiography tells of his rise to power, from humble beginnings in Scotland to controlling the biggest steel empire in the history of the United States. Carnegie lays down the blueprint for success, with an abundance of inspiring life lessons, while also giving unique first-hand impressions of burgeoning 19th century America and some of the most prominent people of the age, including Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain.

This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun. After meditating for 12 years in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, she became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.

Figura clave en la revolución científica medieval, notable astrónomo y matemático alemán; y hombre fundamentalmente conocido por sus leyes sobre el movimiento de los planetas sobre su órbita alrededor del sol, Kepler figura con nombre propio en el Olimpo de la historia científica.

John George Haigh es un asesino y ladrón de apariencia impecable y gran frialdad de ánimo, que en el Londres de principios del siglo XX no va a poder evitar que su terrible maldad salga a la luz. Sin embargo frente a la sociedad es un hombre ejemplar: el director de una empresa de cosméticos con una exquisita educación, amable y cortés. Pero en la fábrica de Haigh se esconden muchos secretos... atrévete a encontrarlos....

En este lúcido ensayo, Alma Guillermoprieto se descubre interrogándose a sí misma sobre su feminismo. Su duda es a la vez un recorrido por su pensamiento, sus recuerdos y una serie de vivencias que van resignificándose a la luz del actual resurgimiento de la revolución de las mujeres: el #MeToo, las nuevas masculinidades, la ética.

In her late 20s, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy - only keeping her from meeting her goals - she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year. The Year of Less documents Cait's life for 12 months during which she bought only consumables.

La edición del audio libro plenamente definitiva de una época en La Habana. Una sátira enmascarada con una memoria erótica. Ésta audio novela es un museo de mujeres, con el narrador de guía completando cada boceto, detallando cada dibujo, y exhibiendo cada cuadro carnal.

Écoutez le nouveau best-seller recommandé par le New York Times ! La recherche unique de l'admirable résilience du cerveau humain présentée par Dr Jill Bolte Taylor dans "Voyage au-delà de mon cerveau : Une neurobiologiste victime d'un accident cérébral raconte ses incroyables découvertes." С'est un peu difficile de croire que le spécialiste du cerveau est devenu la victime d'un traumatisme cérébral. La femme incroyable qui a pu se remettre d'un AVC et écrire le livre.

Mordaz, imaginativo, de gran sentido del humor, sus obras reflejan, como pocos, su corrosivo pesimismo respecto a la condición humana. Principal exponente del teatro del absurdo junto a Samuel Beckett, este francés de alma irreverente se convirtió en un ícono y un autor de culto dentro del circuito teatral mundial. En este audiolibro, pretendemos que conozca sobre los avatares de su existencia.

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie...

José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, su verdadero nombre, fue un temerario y valiente caudillo líder de la mayor rebelión indígena anticolonial que se dio en América durante el siglo XVIII.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Unseen, written and read by Reggie Yates. From Grange Hill to Top of the Pops, Reggie Yates has been on camera nearly all of his life, but it's as a documentary filmmaker - and a pretty fearless one at that - where he has truly been making his mark, investigating everything from gun crime in Chicago to life as a refugee in Iraq.

Un memoir a quattro mani che racconta di amicizie perdute, di amori rubati, di vecchi fumetti e di torte di ricotta. I due protagonisti - e autori - sono fratelli e si ritrovano nella casa di villeggiatura della loro infanzia, prima di consegnare le chiavi al nuovo proprietario. Riemergono oggetti, luoghi, odori, storie, sapori che vanno a comporre un ricettario, non solo metaforico, dell'infanzia, dell'adolescenza e di un'età adulta ancora capace di riservare sorprese.

This #1 internationally bestselling and award-winning memoir about overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction by a Métis-Cree author as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture is “an illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and...

The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump provides a coherent and nuanced psychological portrait of Donald Trump, drawing upon biographical events in the subject's life and contemporary scientific research and theory in personality, developmental, and social psychology.  

Billy Collins, former United States poet laureate, and Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, return to the Y to read favorite poems from their new anthologies 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Mr. Collins) and Good Poems for Hard Times (Mr. Keillor).

De orígenes polacos, fue un temido mafioso que operó durante muchos años en los Estados Unidos de América y que junto al tristemente célebre hampón Charles “Lucky” Luciano, fue uno de los principales referentes del crimen organizado durante el siglo XX.

Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" - Smithsonian.

Cosa hanno in comune il fotoreporter spagnolo naturalizzato francese assassinato dalle gang salvadoregne che stava provando a raccontare, la giornalista maltese che aveva accusato il potere politico di gestire affari criminali, il prete di Casal di Principe che per amore del suo popolo aveva deciso di ribellarsi alla camorra, i giudici di Palermo che hanno continuato a fare il proprio lavoro sapendo che sulle loro vite pendeva una condanna a morte, l'agente italo americano sotto copertura che ha sacrificato sei anni della sua vita per smantellare la mafia newyorchese?