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Testimonios de las protagonistas de la Revolución Mexicana Imposible entender la Revolución mexicana sin las soldaderas que la hicieron posible, que asumieron el momento histórico con bravura y que no sólo enfrentaron con entereza la sangrienta cara de la insurrección, sino que también...

La marquesa de Gange es una joven adornada con todas las virtudes (porque en Sade, tanto las virtudes como los vicios sólo se manifiestan en sus casos más estremos) y casada con un hombre igualmente encantador, a la que el destino no deja de perseguir con tristezas. Su cuñado, que es sacerdote, la desea y la persigue continuamente, reteniéndola incluso contra su voluntad.

Per chi non la conosce personalmente, Lucrezia è un'attrice, una donna bellissima, la figlia della scandalosa Marina Ripa di Meana e del blasonato Alessandro Lante della Rovere. Nata nell'agio e sotto una buona stella. Una donna cui sembra che la vita abbia regalato tutto. Invece se si entra nelle pieghe della sua storia, si scopre un'infanzia difficile dominata da una madre "a piede libero" e un padre ingoiato dai suoi demoni: Lucrezia cresce spostata come una pedina da una casa all'altra e inizia a fare la modella, quasi per gioco.

La condesa Marga d'Andurain protagonizó una vida propia de la mejor novela de aventuras. Nacida en el seno de una familia de la burguesía vascofrancesa, fue una mujer adelantada a su tiempo, rebelde y apasionada, que viajó a ciudades legendarias como El Cairo, Beirut, Damasco o el Tánger de entreguerras, donde llevó a cabo increíbles hazañas. Espió para los británicos, regentó junto a su marido un hotel en el desierto sirio y se propuso ser la primera occidental que entrara en la Meca. Para ello, ya divorciada, se casó con un beduino y se convirtió al islam.

Remedios Varo fue una artista con una imaginación fecunda que cruzó la alquimia, el surrealismo, el subconsciente. En este libro, Silvana Ávila le rinde homenaje.

At 45, Lucky finally feels like she has achieved her dreams – a lovely life with a successful career, beautiful son, adoring husband, two dogs and house in the ‘burbs. But when Lucky’s mother and 100-year-old grandfather violently attack her home, it sends her spiraling out of control. Her delicately crafted double life begins to collapse, and she is finally forced to confront decades of terror, abuse and secrets she has been hiding from everyone – including herself. Lucky breaks the silence of generations, threatening her sanity and the safety of those she so carefully protected.

Este libro narra la Conquista de México de una manera peculiar. Por una parte, presenta datos, citas, láminas, ilustraciones y narraciones de los hechos históricos, pero va más allá, ya que presenta la vida y la visión de la Malinche.

Cresciuta da una madre divorziata che lavora in una casa editrice, V. colma con la lettura il vuoto lasciato dalla figura assente del padre. A tredici anni, durante una cena, incontra G., un celebre scrittore cinquantenne che, sin dal primo sguardo, la colpisce per il suo carisma e le attenzioni che le rivolge. Rassicurata dai suoi modi gentili e galanti e dallo sguardo clemente della madre, lei si offre a lui, corpo e anima.

Close your eyes and get ready to see the world in a new and more positive way. As a child in Toronto, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world. She speaks with authenticity and candor about how she tackles the preconceived notions we have around blindness; Molly has made it her mission to make us see her - and ourselves- in a wholly empowering way.

La biografía de una mujer excepcional. Desaparecida trágicamente tras un vuelo sobre el Océano Pacífico, el 2 de julio de 1937, fue una aviadora estadounidense, célebre por sus marcas de vuelo y por intentar el primer viaje aéreo alrededor del mundo sobre la línea ecuatorial.

Of all the great movie stars, there may be none more enigmatic than Greta Garbo, who remains internationally famous despite the fact her life and career raise more questions than answers. How did a Swedish actress with very little film acting experience in her native land arrive in the United States and achieve instant stardom? Most actresses had to wait years before they were offered starring roles in major films, yet Garbo was ushered to the front of the line and perched atop the MGM pantheon.

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, in addition to finding herself the star of a local TV soap opera.

Trapped in a brutally violent marriage, Foroozan makes an unthinkable choice to protect her children. When her decision puts her behind the bars of an Afghan women’s prison, she is surprised to discover her first taste of freedom. But freedom proves fragile. As American troops begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Foroozan faces new threats: her husband's vengeful family and the encroaching shadow of the Taliban. With everything at stake, she must navigate a maze of harrowing choices to survive and secure her children's future.

My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon, begins Shame, the probing story of the 12-year-old girl who will become the author herself and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.

Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes listeners from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front to Southern California in the early '70s, where she continued in the battle for gay civil rights. We see her helping to organize the takeover of The Ladies Home Journal and “ogle-ins” - where women staked out Wall Street and whistled at the men.

Juana I la Loca (1479-1555), reina de Castilla de 1504 a 1555, era hija de los Reyes Católicos. De acuerdo con la política exterior de su padre, contrajo matrimonio con el archiduque Felipe el Hermoso, primogénito de Maximiliano I. En 1504 aparecieron los primeros síntomas de enajenación mental, que se acentuaron a la muerte de su esposo en 1506. Su vida estuvo llena de intrigas y luchas por el poder. Esta referencia, puramente histórica, no explica el extraordinario y dramático destino de esta reina, a quien el pueblo llano tituló «doña Juana la Loca de amor».

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. 

«E noi, che cosa stiamo diventando? E io, cosa sono diventato?» si chiede Paolo Nori. E la risposta viene da una lontananza che in verità brucia distanze e porta con sé, come fosse turbine di visioni, di fatti, di sentimenti, e naturalmente di poesia, la vita di Anna Achmatova. «Vogliamo raccontare» dice Nori «la storia di Anna Achmatova, una poetessa russa nata nei pressi di Odessa nel 1889 e morta a Mosca nel 1966.

Notable actriz norteamericana nacida en 1938, fue junto a Elizabeth Taylor uno de los grandes íconos femeninos del séptimo arte del siglo XX gracias a su enorme belleza, su capacidad expresiva y su talento actoral. Muerta trágica y misteriosamente en 1981, su estela continúa brillando hasta hoy.

Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, nominally survived as pharaoh by her son Caesarion. She was also a diplomat, naval commander, polyglot, and medical author. As a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder, Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.