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The Histories Book 9: Calliope
by HerodotusHerodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. The Histories, were divided into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the "Muse of History", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.
The Age Of Napoleon
by J. Christopher HeroldTHE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects -- political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon’s rise from common origins to enormous political and military power, as well as his ultimate defeat, influenced our modern age in thousands of ways, from the map of Europe to the metric system, from styles of dress and dictators to new conventions of personal behavior.
Mistress To An Age: A Life Of Madame De Staël
by J. Christopher HeroldJ. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's father was Jacques Necker, the finance minister to Louis XVI, and her mother ran an influential literary-political salon in Paris. Always precocious, at nineteen Germaine married the Swedish ambassador to France, Eric Magnus Baron de Stael-Holstein, and in 1785 took over her mother's salon with great success. Germaine and de Stael lived most of their married life apart. She had many brilliant lovers. Talleyrand was the first, Narbonne, the minister of war, another; Benjamin Constant was her most significant and long-lasting one. She published several political and literary essays, including "A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations, " which became oneof the most important documents of European Romanticism. Her bold philosophical ideas, particularly those in "On Literature, " caused feverish commotion in France and were quickly noticed by Napoleon, who saw her salon as a rallying point for the opposition. He eventually exiled her from France.<P><P> Winner of the 1959 National Book Award
Intensive Care: The Story of a Nurse
by Echo HeronIlluminates the day-to-day routine and texture of a nurse's life through an account of the author's career that spans from training to practice to burnout.
Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front
by Echo HeronAs the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their experience. Now Echo Heron, New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care, draws truths far stranger than fiction out of her colleagues--and allows the nurses to speak to us in their own words.Ranging from inspiring to tragic to outrageously funny, these narratives are real life medical dramas as experienced by nurses across the country--each practicing in a variety of specialties, including cardiac care, labor and delivery, burns, the ER--even a nurse who works in dolphin care.Tending Lives portrays a penitentiary nurse responsible for orchestrating a murderer's execution; a stroke victim who rose out of his depression when his nurses began telling him jokes; and, perhaps the most riveting testimony, the moment-by-moment memories of several nurses who served in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing--gripping accounts that give us new perspectives on the horror and heroism of that nightmare day.Pediatric nurses, psychiatric nurses, home-care nurses, intensive care nurses--all with distinct voices and unique stories to tell. Filled with both tears and laughter, and charged with the issues that afflict nursing care today, Tending Lives is a gripping, moving, inspiring book, a fitting tribute to a noble profession.From the Hardcover edition.
The Last Holiday: A Memoir (Canons #61)
by Gil Scott HeronThe stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday has been praised for bringing back to life one of the most important voices of the last fifty years. Now in paperback, The Last Holiday provides a remarkable glimpse into Scott-Heron's life and times, from his humble beginnings to becoming one of the most influential artists of his generation.The memoir climaxes with a historic concert tour in which Scott-Heron's band opened for Stevie Wonder. The Hotter than July tour traveled cross-country from late 1980 through early 1981, drumming up popular support for the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. King's birthday, January 15, was marked with a massive rally in Washington.A fitting testament to the achievements of an extraordinary man, The Last Holiday provides a moving portrait of Scott-Heron's relationship with his mother, personal recollections of Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Clive Davis, and other musical figures, and a compelling narrative vehicle for Scott-Heron's insights into the music industry, the civil rights movement, governmental hypocrisy, and our wider place in the world. The Last Holiday confirms Scott-Heron as a fearless truth-teller, a powerful artist, and an inspiring observer of his times.
You Know What You Could Be: Tuning into the 1960s
by Mike Heron Andrew Greig'Mike Heron, as part of the Incredible String Band, changed the way I looked at music. Read it!' Billy Connolly'Mike Heron's lyrics always sparkled with wit and warmth and his prose is a delightful continuation. The book evokes a smoky, unheated eccentric Edinburgh that was a crucible for so much creativity.' Joe Boyd, author of White BicyclesThis singular book offers two harmonising memoirs of music making in the 1960s. Mike Heron for the first time writes vividly of his formative years in dour, Presbyterian Edinburgh. Armed with a love of Buddy Holly, Fats Domino and Hungarian folk music, he plays in school cloakrooms, graduates to rock, discovers the joy of a folk audience, starts writing songs, tries to talk to girls, wishes he was a Beatnik all while training as a reluctant accountant. When asked to join Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer, the Incredible String Band are formed - and their wildly innovative, astounding music became indelibly linked with the latter Sixties.Andrew Greig was a frustrated provincial schoolboy when he heard their songs. It changed everything. Undaunted by a lack of experience and ability, he formed a band in their image. Fate & Ferret populated back-country Fife with Pan, nymphs and Apollo, met the String Band and caught the fish lorry to London to hang around Joe Boyd's Witchseason office, watching at the fringes of the blooming Underground scene. It was forty years later that he and Mike became friends.These entwined stories will delight anyone who has loved the Incredible String Band; and their differing portraits of that hopeful, erratic and stubborn stumble towards the life that is ours will strike a chord with everyone.
Prisoner of the Rock
by Héron-MimouniMonaco et le prisonnier du Rocher. Luigi Ciardelli En collaboration avec Corinne Héron-Mimouni, agent pénitentiaire. Placé sous les verrous en France pour braquage, Luigi Ciardelli est en route, extradé vers l'Italie, pour purger sa peine, lorsque le camion pénitentiaire dévie vers Monaco. La justice monégasque veut le récupérer. Considéré comme l'ennemi numéro 1, LUigi Ciardelli se retrouve emprisonné dans l'une des prisons la plus discrète du monde : celle de Monaco. On suit le confit qui, dès le début, l'oppose à l'administration monégasque qui refuse de l'envoyer dans une prison italienne. Le bras de fer est inégal, et Luigi Ciardelli n'aura dès lors qu'un seul but : s'évader. Dans son projet d'évasion, il entraîne un ancien marine américain. L'auteur devient alors le personnage d'un réel roman d'aventure. L'évasion est réussie. Le Rocher est ébranlé. Des explications s'imposent. S'est-il évadé sans aide extérieure ? Une rumeur de complot commence à planer sur la Principauté. Ce document vécu, d'un homme qui accepte de témoigner, est l'occasion de réfléchir au thème de la justice sous un aspect jamais abordé. La peine de prison, seule réponse à la délinquence, n'est plus vue à travers le délabrement des prisons françaises et laisse ainsi l'auteur s'exprimer sur la notion d'enfermement. Un sujet intemporel. Luigi Ciardelli a prêté sa plume à Corinne Héron-Mimouni, auteur notamment de Matonne aux éditions Ramsay.
De gevangene van de Rots
by Héron-Mimouni Jeanine EradesAls Luigi Ciardelli aan Italië wordt uitgeleverd om een gevangenisstraf uit te zitten voor een overval, waarvoor hij in Frankrijk werd veroordeeld, wijkt de transportwagen onderweg uit naar Monaco. De Monegaskische justitie wil hem spreken. Luigi Ciardelli wordt als vijand nummer 1 beschouwd en verdwijnt achter slot en grendel van een van de meest geheimzinnige gevangenissen ter wereld: die van Monaco. We volgen hem in zijn conflict met de Monegaskische autoriteiten die weigeren om hem naar een Italiaanse gevangenis over te plaatsen. Het is een ongelijke strijd en vanaf dat moment heeft Luigi Ciardelli nog maar één doel: ontsnappen... Een Amerikaanse ex-marinier raakt betrokken bij het ambitieuze ontsnappingsplan en dit maakt van de auteur een personage in zijn eigen avonturenroman. De ontsnapping slaagt en doet de Rots schudden op zijn grondvesten. Discussies branden los. Is hij ontsnapt zonder hulp van buitenaf? In het Prinsdom komen de complottheorieën op gang. Dit is het unieke ervaringsverhaal van een man die getuigenis wil afleggen. Het zet de lezer aan tot nadenken over het thema rechtvaardigheid, vanuit een tot nu toe onderbelichte invalshoek. Het opleggen van een celstraf is nog steeds ons enige antwoord op criminaliteit, maar dit keer is het geen oude, vervallen Franse gevangenis die de auteur uitdaagt om zich uit te laten over het begrip opsluiting. Een tijdloos onderwerp. Luigi Ciardelli vroeg Corinne Héron-Mimouni, gevangenisbewaarder in een penitentiaire inrichting en auteur van de boeken Matonne (Éditions Ramsay) en Matonne de jeunes (Éditions de l'arbre), om zijn verhaal vast te leggen. Jeanine Erades verzorgde de vertaling naar het Nederlands.
Illumination Rounds: from Dispatches
by Michael HerrFresh in his boots and three days in-country, Michael Herr is in a Chinook when a young soldier across from him is gunned. “It took me a month to lose that feeling of being a spectator to something that was part game, part show.” Written in unforgettable and unflinching detail, Herr captures the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Selected from Dispatches, one of "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review) and an instant classic straight from the front lines.A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure
by Patricia Ellis HerrWhen Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-sized mountains.In Up, Trish recounts their always exhilarating--and sometimes harrowing--adventures climbing all forty-eight of New Hampshire's highest mountains. Readers will delight in the expansive views and fresh air that only peakbaggers are afforded, and will laugh out loud as Trish urges herself to "mother up" when she and Alex meet an ornery--and alarmingly bold--spruce grouse on the trail. This is, at heart, a resonant, emotionally honest account of a mother's determination to foster independence and fearlessness in her daughter, to teach her "that small doesn't necessarily mean weak; that girls can be strong; and that big, bold things are possible."
Hidalgo: Maestro, párroco e insurgente
by Carlos HerrejónDe joven prodigio a desastre militar. De bon vivant a encadenado. De rector a seductor de masas. De párroco celoso a excomulgado. Y —ahora, 200 años después— de héroe mítico a hombre de carne y hueso. Al señor Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor le bastaron seis meses para convertirse en el mayor héroe de la historia nacional: fue capturado tan sólo medio año después de haber dado el Grito de Dolores. Desde su fusilamiento, su leyenda no ha hecho más que aumentar. Pero los «altares civiles» y los monumentos han ocultado toda la complejidad de un ser humano fascinante. ¿Qué pasó durante los 57 años que antecedieron al Grito? ¿Cómo fue que el joven violinista y luego cura alfarero llegó a liderar un ejército de 80 mil hombres? ¿Cómo pasó de hablar otomí, francés, latín y español a balbucear el lenguaje de la revolución? ¿Por qué su mayor aliado -Allende- quiso matarlo? ¿Cómo fueron los dos juicios que lo llevaron a la degradación y al fusilamiento? En esta magna obra ilustrada, el doctor Carlos Herrejón -tal vez el mayor especialista en Hidalgo- nos presenta la biografía más acuciosa que se haya hecho del guanajuatense. Mientras pinta cómo era la vida en la Nueva España, disecciona los años de formación y los de esplendor académico y clerical de Hidalgo, igual que los meses de guerra y prisión. Nos muestra, en fin, que el Padre de la Patria es un gran desconocido para sus hijos. miguel hidalgo y costilla;josemaria morelos y pavon;mexico;independencia; nueva españa; corralejo; penjamo;insurgentes, insurgencia;historiade mexico; historia; historia mexicana; hidalgo;allende;miguel allende; Abasolo;la corregidora; josefa ortiz de dominguez; abad y queipo;grito de dolores; España;virreinato;colonia; colonialismo;estandarte;virgende guadalupe;morelia;Valladolid;guayangareo;vicente guerrero;Iturbide; agustin de iturbide;mina;sentimientos de la nacion;juan o’donoju;guanajuato; michoacan;apatzingan;charo;colegio de san nicolas; umsnh;universidad michoacana de san nicolasde hidalgo;criollo;mestizaje;ejército trigarante;napoleon; napoleon iii;felipe vii; guerra de independencia; alhondiga; alhóndiga de granaditas; cerro de las cruces; Riaño; ignacio lopez rayon [Críticas/Reseñas]
Morelos: Revelaciones y enigmas
by Carlos HerrejónPiense en un joven estudiante, inteligente, disciplinado, con madera de líder y sentido del humor. Póngale nombre: José María. Póngale rostro: rasgos duros, cruce de etnias y mirada penetrante. Ese muchacho escucha a su rector, Miguel Hidalgo. Juntos entrarán en la historia. Esta biografía de Morelos -la más acuciosa hasta ahora- revela el camino que siguió ese arriero, ese estudiante y cura. Lo aleja del bronce, del mármol y de los mitos. Y nos entrega una de las vidas más fascinantes, más humanas y enternecedoras que puedan imaginarse. Entre la ilustración y la pobreza, entre el ansia de libertad y el afán por reordenar la insurgencia, entre la genialidad militar y la ingenuidad seria y socarrona a la vez, ahí se ubica José María Morelos. Justo entre lo sublime de los Sentimientos de la Nación y la brutalidad de la guerra sin cuartel. Con esta obra, el investigador Carlos Herrejón ha pintado el mejor retrato de uno de los héroes más mencionados y poco conocidos en algunas de sus facetas: revelaciones y enigmas.
Todos tenemos un lado (oscuro) rosa
by Herrejón Lili¿Todavía hay alguien que piense que las chicas no saben contar chistes? Eso es porque no conocen a Lili y Herrejón (o Lilirrejón), dos jóvenes influencers de redes sociales que son capaces de arrancar 400.000 carcajadas en seis segundos. Lili y Herrejón no pueden ser más distintas. A Herrejón le gustan las películas de acción y a Lili las románticas. Herrejón prefiere la montaña y Lili la playa. A Herrejón le gustan los chicos como vikingos, tatuados y barbudos, y a Lili le gustan los chicos tiernos que tocan la guitarra. Herrejón prefiere salado y Lili, dulce. Sin embargo, son grandes amigas y compañeras de piso. En Todos tenemos un lado (oscuro) rosa hablan de amistad, de relaciones sentimentales, de la experiencia de compartir piso y, por supuesto, de sí mismas: la música que les gusta, sus peores y mejores citas, lo que les hace reíry llorar... Rompen con las ideas preconcebidas del mundo femenino mostrando mujeres que saben reírse de sus defectos y que prefieren quedarse en casa comiendo una pizza a tener una cita. Todo con el toque dulce que le pone Lili y con un poquito de mala leche, como le gusta a Herrejón.
Basketball Junkie: A Memoir
by Chris Herren Bill ReynoldsI was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat. At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's All-American, featured in a Sports Illustratedcover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams,an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship. Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stoneprofiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kid - but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control. Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die. In his own words, Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, Basketball Junkieis a remarkable memoir, harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return.
Frida: Una biografía de Frida Kahlo
by Hayden HerreraLa mejor biografía que se ha escrito sobre Frida Kahlo, la pintora mexicana por excelencia. Edición revisada con prólogo de Valeria Luiselli Frida fue una figura mítica creada por sí misma, el centro exótico de una esfera que incluía a amigos como León Trotski y Nelson Rockefeller, Isamu Noguchi y André Breton, Dolores del Río y Paulette Goddard. Fue esposa del gran muralista Diego Rivera y artista brillante por derecho propio. Esta edición ampliamente revisada de la biografía de la pintora mexicana por excelencia nos revela a una mujer con un magnetismo y una originalidad legendarios, cuya vida fue tan dramática y obsesiva como las imágenes que pintaba. La sensualidad de sus cuadros, el ambiente extraño y denso que los impregna, surgieron directamente de sus propias experiencias: su infancia durante la Revolución, el devastador accidente sufrido a los dieciocho años, su vínculo con el Partido Comunista a través de Diego Rivera, su pasión por el folclore y la cultura de México... Frida realizó una fascinante obra autobiográfica plasmada en la pintura: una irresistible serie de autorretratos que representaban el desarrollo de su urgente necesidad de conocerse a sí misma, creados entre 1926 y 1954, fecha en que murió. Quienes la conocieron relatan la historia de su vida como una novela llena de encanto y joie de vivre, hasta el trágico final. Pese a que la verdad es más desoladora, la historia de Frida Kahlo sigue siendo tan extraordinaria como la leyenda que creó. Reseñas:«Una biografía íntima fruto de una concienzuda investigación e ilustrada con numerosas imágenes de sus cuadros. Ya era hora de que se recuperara.»Sunday Times «Herrera no solo nos regala una descripción detallada del carácter sensual y apasionado de Frida Kahlo, sino que comenta sus cuadros con la destreza crítica de una verdadera experta. Insuperable.»Janet Kaplan «Frida pasará a la historia como la primera gran biografía de una de las artistas más viscerales de todos los tiempos.»The Observer «Es admirable como Hayden Herrera rehúye del mito y a la vez logra capturar a esta desdichada mujer en toda su grandeza.»The Independent «Una historia cautivadora sobre el arte radical, una visión romántica de la política, los grandes amores y un profundo dolor.»TIME Magazine
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (The\last Interview Ser.)
by Hayden Herrera"Through her art, Herrera writes, Kahlo made of herself both performer and icon. Through this long overdue biography, Kahlo has also, finally, been made fully human." — San Francisco ChronicleHailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood near Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution; a devastating accident at age eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children; her tempestuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and intermittent love affairs with men as diverse as Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky; her association with the Communist Party; her absorption in Mexican folklore and culture; and her dramatic love of spectacle.Here is the tumultuous life of an extraordinary twentieth-century woman -- with illustrations as rich and haunting as her legend.
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
by Hayden HerreraThroughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle—as both an artist and a man—was to embrace his conflicted identity as the son of a single American woman and a famous yet reclusive Japanese father. "It's only in art," he insisted, "that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all." In this remarkable biography of the elusive artist, Hayden Herrera observes this driving force of Noguchi's creativity as intimately tied to his deep appreciation of nature. As a boy in Japan, Noguchi would collect wild azaleas and blue mountain flowers for a little garden in front of his home. As Herrera writes, he also included a rock, "to give a feeling of weight and permanence." It was a sensual appreciation he never abandoned. When looking for stones in remote Japanese quarries for his zen-like Paris garden forty years later, he would spend hours actually listening to the stones, scrambling from one to another until he found one that "spoke to him." Constantly striving to "take the essence of nature and distill it," Noguchi moved from sculpture to furniture, and from playgrounds to sets for his friend the choreographer Martha Graham, and back again working in wood, iron, clay, steel, aluminum, and, of course, stone. Throughout his career, Noguchi traveled constantly, from New York to Paris to India to Japan, forever uprooting himself to reinvigorate what he called the "keen edge of originality." Wherever he went, his needy disposition and boyish charm drew women to him, yet he tended to push them away when things began to feel too settled. Only through his art—now seen as a powerful aesthetic link between the East and the West—did Noguchi ever seem to feel that he belonged.Combining the personal correspondence of and interviews with Noguchi and those closest to him—from artists, patrons, assistants, and lovers—Herrera has created an authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors. She locates Noguchi in his friendships with such artists as Buckminster Fuller and Arshile Gorky, and in his affairs with women including Frida Kahlo and Anna Matta Clark. With the attention to detail and scholarship that made her biography of Gorky a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Herrera has written a rich meditation on art in a globalized milieu. Listening to Stone is a moving portrait of an artist compulsively driven to reinvent himself as he searched for his own "essence of sculpture."
Upper Bohemia: A Memoir
by Hayden HerreraA poignant coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of artistic, bohemian parents—set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico.Hayden Herrera&’s parents each married five times; following their desires was more important to them than looking after their children. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York City to live with their mother and their new hard-drinking stepfather. They saw their father only during summers on the Cape, when they and the other neighborhood children would be left to their own devices by parents who were busy painting, writing, or composing music. These adults inhabited a world that Herrera&’s mother called &“upper bohemia,&” a milieu of people born to privilege who chose to focus on the life of the mind. Her parents&’ friends included such literary and artistic heavyweights as artist Max Ernst, writers Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, architect Marcel Breuer, and collector Peggy Guggenheim. On the surface, Herrera&’s childhood was idyllic and surreal. But underneath, the pain of being a parent&’s afterthought was acute. Upper Bohemia captures the tension between a child&’s excitement at every new thing and her sadness at losing the comfort of a reliable family. For her parents, both painters, the thing that mattered most was beauty—and so her childhood was expanded by art and by a reverence for nature. But her early years were also marred by abuse and by absent, irresponsible adults. Herrera would move from place to place, parent to parent, relative to family friend, and school to school—eventually following her mother to Mexico. The step-parents and step-siblings kept changing, too. Intimate and honest, Upper Bohemia is a celebration of a wild and pleasure-filled way of living—and a poignant reminder of the toll such narcissism takes on the children raised in its grip.
Luis Miguel: La verdad sobre la vida del cantante mexicano más exitoso de todos los tiempos
by Javier León HerreraAmado en Argentina, Colombia, Estados Unidos, Chile, España, Italia... Luis Miguel es el artista más admirado y al mismo tiempo más desconocido en cuanto a su vida privada se refiere. En este libro impactante y revelador, el notable periodista y escritor bestseller, Javier León Herrera, recorre un caminode dolor, amargura y esperanza para ofrecer la verdad sobre la vida del cantante. Cuenta sucesos intensos de su durísima infancia , pasajes conmovedores de su adolescencia marcada por los secretos y los ultrajes familiares, además de los conflictos terribles que rodean al cantante, al ser humano detrás de los escenarios: - ¿Qué sabemos de su niñez? - ¿Quiénes fueron realmente sus padres, abuelos y tíos? - ¿Qué misterio rodea la desaparición de su madre? - ¿Cómo fue su relación con su padre?Esta biografía, que el autor actualiza en este nuevo libro, recoge opiniones de parientes que se valieron de la cercanía con el cantante para vivir de su éxito, de personas alejadas del medio artístico que mantuvieron un trato cercano con el inigualable artista en momentos turbulentos de su vida y,además, se profundiza en estas páginas en el misterio de Marcela Basteri, madre de Luis Miguel y cuya ausencia en su vida marcó profundamente su carácter.
El Tigre de Dios
by Javier León HerreraLa vida de Falcao Para muchos, Radamel Falcao García es el mejor jugador colombiano detodos los tiempos. Desde muy temprana edad demostró que portaba losgenes del talento. precocidad nunca dejó de sorprender, y la ilustrantanto su debut en el profesionalismo, a la increíble edad de 13 años,como su partidad para partida para River Plate al que llegó cuandoentraba apenas a la adolescencia.Pero como todas las jóvenes promesas, tuvo que sorter la fragilidad dela ruta hacia el éxito. Enfrentó soledades, lesiones, dificultadesfinancieras, un sinfín de amarguras personales y deportivas que a lapostre, pudo superar gracias a la columna de su vida: su fé en Dios.A partir de una jugosa documentación, este libro se sumerge en labiografía del futbolista, del hijo, del esposo, del cristiano, delhombre, una vida ejemplar cargada de metas y sueños que Falcao, el Tigrede Dios, no dejará de acechar. La vida de Falcao Para muchos, Radamel Falcao García es el mejor jugador colombiano detodos los tiempos. Desde muy temprana edad demostró que portaba losgenes del talento. precocidad nunca dejó de sorprender, y la ilustrantanto su debut en el profesionalismo, a la increíble edad de 13 años,como su partidad para partida para River Plate al que llegó cuandoentraba apenas a la adolescencia.Pero como todas las jóvenes promesas, tuvo que sorter la fragilidad dela ruta hacia el éxito. Enfrentó soledades, lesiones, dificultadesfinancieras, un sinfín de amarguras personales y deportivas que a lapostre, pudo superar gracias a la columna de su vida: su fé en Dios.A partir de una jugosa documentación, este libro se sumerge en labiografía del futbolista, del hijo, del esposo, del cristiano, delhombre, una vida ejemplar cargada de metas y sueños que Falcao, el Tigrede Dios, no dejará de acechar.
Una intensa vida: Mi historia íntima como nunca antes la conté
by Paloma HerreraEstas memorias hablan de la verdadera vocación y de la importancia de seguir los sueños. Quienes las lean se encontrarán con anécdotas y vivencias íntimas pero también con reflexiones de una persona que llegó al máximo lugar al que podía aspirar en su carrera. «Para ser bailarín hay que tener fortaleza física pero, sobre todo, fortaleza mental. Los que no son fuertes, aunque sean muy talentosos, van quedando en el camino.» Es imposible abordar la vida de Paloma Herrera sin hablar de intensidad y de pasión. Su carrera fue una montaña rusa. Entre Buenos Aires y Nueva York, el Teatro Colón y el American Ballet Theatre, vivió cada minuto como si fuera el último. Su nombre la marcó para siempre. Nació sin ataduras. Comenzó a bailar a los 7 años por decisión propia, a los 9 ya empezaba a ganar los primeros premios en concursos internacionales. A los 15 años se fue a vivir sola a Nueva York, contratada por una de las compañías más importantes del mundo. Su exigencia no tenía límites. Nunca estaba conforme consigo misma. En este libro, por primera vez, Paloma Herrera cuenta todo: la compleja relación que tuvo con su maestra Olga Ferri, la intensidad que caracterizó su vínculo con los hombres, las maravillosas personas que se cruzó en el camino y las desventajas de estar en un medio tan competitivo. Esta autobiografía describe la trastienda de los ensayos, las luchas personales, las marcas de un cuerpo con horas y horas de entrenamiento, el apoyo incondicional de la familia en todo momento. Paloma Herrera es un hito en la danza, no solo en la Argentina sino en el mundo. Su presencia como latina abrió una nueva etapa en lugares como Estados Unidos, donde fue la primera figura del American Ballet Theatre con tan solo 19 años. Tras retirarse de los escenarios, a los 40, con una carrera impecable, se convirtió en un ejemplo de la excelencia, la entrega, el sacrificio y la disciplina que se necesitan para llegar a la cima. Estas memorias hablan de la verdadera vocación y de la importancia de seguir los sueños. Quienes las lean se encontrarán con anécdotas y vivencias íntimas pero también con reflexiones de una persona que llegó al máximo lugar al que podía aspirar.
Mango Elephants in the Sun: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin
by Susana HerreraWhen the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa--and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she's a rich American tourist, a nasara (white person) who has never known pain or want. They stare at her in silence. The children giggle and run away. At first her only confidant is a miraculously communicative lizard. Susana fights back with every ounce of heart and humor she possesses, and slowly begins to make a difference. She ventures out to the village well and learns to carry water on her head. In a classroom crowded to suffocation she finds a way to discipline her students without resorting to the beatings they are used to. She makes ice cream in the scorching heat, and learns how to plant millet and kill chickens. She laughs with the villagers, cries with them, works and prays with them, heals and is helped by them. Village life is hard but magical. Poverty is rampant--yet people sing and share what little they have. The termites that chew up her bed like morning cereal are fried and eaten in their turn ("bite-sized and crunchy like Doritos"). Nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, but even the morning greetings impart a purer sense of being in the moment. Gradually, Susana and the village become part of each other. They will never be the same again.