Mar: 1984 books

El Padre Pío de Pietrelcina nació en 1887 y murió en 1968 en el convento capuchino de San Giovanni Rotondo. Allí dedicó medio siglo, casi exclusivamente, a confesar a decenas de miles de personas que acudían a verle, atraídas por su fama de santidad y por los numerosos milagros y hechos extraordinarios...

¿Estuvo Agatha Christie enamorada de Alfonso XIII? ¿Hizo el violinista Paganini un pacto con el diablo? ¿Qué gran misterio descubrió Albert Einstein que todavía ignorábamos? Las páginas secretas de la historia es un apasionante recorrido a través de hechos históricos insólitos, misterios,...

Desde el primer Borbón hasta el actual príncipe de Asturias, este fascinante libro es una invitación a recorrer las pequeñas y grandes tragedias que han azotado a esta dinastía. Enfermedad, locura, voracidad sexual, endogamia... son sólo algunos de los estigmas que jalonan la crónica...

Over the past two decades, due to dramatic advances in molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, and genetics, our view on mitochondria as a relatively static cellular powerhouse has changed radically. We now know that these organelles play a critical role in the normal and in the damaged heart. Written...

En la primera parte de este libro, José María García Martín establece las bases para la edición académica del Fuero Juzgo, traducción romance del Liber Iudiciorum visigodo ordenada en 1241 por Fernando III para otorgarlo a Córdoba. Durante la Alta Edad Media, el código legal visigodo no dejó...

José María Blanco White (Sevilla 1775 - Liverpool 1841) es uno de los pilares fundamentales del romanticismo español. Hijo de una familia irlandesa afincada en Sevilla, fue canónigo de Cádiz y en Sevilla. En 1810, en desacuerdo con la Junta Central, se exilia a Inglaterra, abandona el catolicismo...

The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of the medical profession. During this tumultuous period of transition, physicians and surgeons merged in an effort to monopolize the field and ensure their...

I didn’t blame my parents’ death for my bad behaviour. Oh, I’m sure some do-gooding psychiatrist would be able to lay the blame at someone else’s door – but the truth was – I just enjoyed being bad. It made me feel better for a while. It was just when Will looked at me with disappointment...

Conner raised an eyebrow. “Did you do something stupid?” he asked with the ghost of a smile. I nodded maintaining my no-eye-contact façade, “Yup,” I sighed. He brightened and sat forward in his seat, “What? You mean… did you actually tell him?” he sounded pleased and incredulous all...

I stared at Dad with my mouth open, horror-struck. Gabriel Stewart was the captain of Springfield Academy’s football team and had been the object of my desire forever... Gabriel Stewart was my new step-brother…? “His name’s Gabriel,” Dad said unnecessarily, since I was already having a meltdown...

Daphne Collins can't believe her bad luck. She's been pitched in the Genie challenge with none other than her very good looking, but very bad tempered lab partner, Leon Macklin. Even though he's rude and surly, there's something about Leon that she can't help being attracted to - suddenly the idea...

I stared at him. His mouth was moving – which was a total turn on, by the way – but the words he was saying wouldn’t process in my confused brain. What the hell was he talking about? He couldn’t have found the one – because I was the one… “He’s totally awesome, dude – I know this...

I blamed my parents. What sort of a name was Angel for a guy anyway? They’d set my future in stone with that decision. And no. I wasn’t gay... I just liked guys, that’s all. I liked the way they looked. I liked their bodies... It didn’t make me gay. “You coming, Angel?” I looked up. Harry,...

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle...