Julio Romero de Torres

Of all the figures throughout history, probably none have had so many assassination attempts made on their life as Fidel Castro. This book gives detailed overview of some of the more than 600 plots to assassinate him, where exploding cigars, poisons, political plots, mafia and other methods have been used.

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

Lifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by the different ramifications of knowledge.

Manuel Álvarez, un leonés emigrado a México, fue una figura singular, omnipresente en todos los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en el que primero fue departamento de Nuevo México y con posterioridad territorio de los Estados Unidos de América. Álvarez recurrió a actuaciones cercanas a la picaresca y la piratería para lograr sus objetivos políticos y económicos. Su labor de relaciones públicas, políticas y diplomáticas resultó indispensable para que se diera una transición pacífica entre gobiernos durante las primeras luchas por la obtención de la condición de estado de...