El inocente

El Profe, como es conocido Álvaro González en el universo radial y sus alrededores, combina en Canciones para astronautas, su primer libro, la literatura y la música, sus dos grandes pasiones. En cien relatos cortos les rinde homenaje a los grupos y canciones que han sido importantes en ciertos momentos. Una selecta banda sonora que sirve de telón de fondo a palabras que evocan amores, viajes, lugares, emociones, personas y todo aquello que le recuerda al autor "qué imperfecta, pero qué interesante es la vida". "Esta visión de Álvaro González a lo largo de estas cien canciones me...

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the cancer survivor who became a four-time Tour de France champ. ?In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he's a new father and a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. The book features a disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memoirs.? ?Publishers Weekly

Giuseppe Verdi es uno de los compositores mas famosos, apasionantes y longevos de la historia de la musica. Un siglo despues de su muerte, muchas de sus operas siguen apareciendo en todos los repertorios del genero, e incluso algunas de ellas como RIGOLETTO, IL TROVATORE, LA TRAVIATA Y AIDA se encuentran entre las mas populares jamas compuestas. Escrita en colaboracion con la familia Verdi y gracias a un amplio abanico de fuentes, esta biografia autorizada pasa exhaustiva revista a una vida larga, vigorosa y variada. La autora sabe captar con todo lujo de detalles la tremenda energia, la gran ...

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...