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A biography of South America's great soldier and patriot who sacrificed his prestige, money, and life for the independence of South America from Spanish rule.

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Es un estudio de historia intelectual española a través de la biografía del salmantino Federico de Onís (1885-1966), que fue catedrático de Literatura española en las universidades de Oviedo y Salamanca, antes de incorporarse a la Universidad de Columbia (Nueva York) en 1916. Desde ese puesto docente realizó una enorme tarea de difusión de la cultura española a la vez que la integraba en el conjunto de las culturas hispánicas de ambos lados del Atlántico. En esa tarea actuó como representante español de la Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios, y se convirtió en figura clave...

American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. This biography details her childhood strife with an alcoholic father, life on the edge as a teenage R & B star in Destiny's Child, an ill-fated early solo career, and much more.