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Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

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

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.

Estudiar la vida y la obra del benedictino Martín Sarmiento, un gallego de Pontevedra que no nació en Galicia, que ni se llamaba Martín ni se apellidaba Sarmiento, supone, en buena medida, escribir una historia de ausencias, olvidos, renuncias, incomprensiones y ambigüedades. Martín Sarmiento, educación, ilustración y utopía en la España del siglo XVIII pretende ilustrar esa historia, intentando buscar el lugar que al gallego berciano le debe corresponder en la historia de la Ilustración española. De la más conocida y estudiada -la funcionarial, pragmática y utilitarista- y de la ...