Física

Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind.

Rigorously objective, journalist Joaquín Bardavío pens this monumental biography, the most complete among those that have been published about Franco and his time.

Re-creates the journey of an extraordinary heroine through the twentieth century and the realities of life in the American spotlight, with the help of many of her never-before interviewed family and friends.

Publicado originalmente en 1973 con el título El desertor, por la editorial venezolana Monte Ávila, la biblioteca de Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza crece en Planeta con esta reconocida colección de relatos. Los textos configuran la crónica nostálgica de cierta juventud intelectual que, deseando cambiarlo todo, terminó cambiando ella misma y que –cuando no desapareció o asumió un destino mediocre– ha quedado a la deriva, sintiéndose desertora, vagamente culpable. Fragmentos de historia, ellos exponen algunas formas de la vida política latinoamericana en la década de los sesenta e...