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Discusses briefly the lives of well-known figures from ancient times to present and the events or accomplishments that made them famous.

A trip back to the world of Jane Austen and the homes she lived in with noted historian Lucy Worsley.

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...

Poseedor de una de las plumas más notables e incisivas de nuestra lengua y pieza clave en la consolidación de las instituciones educativas de México, Jaime Torres Bodet nos lega en sus memorias un fiel testimonio de su paso por dichas instituciones y por el Servicio Exterior Mexicano. Ofrece una perspectiva amplia de su época, las personas y los acontecimientos que marcaron tres cuartas partes del siglo XX mexicano, pero también en la escena internacional, fruto de su labor diplomática. Este volumen abunda en las experienias de Torres Bodet como director general de la UNESCO, sobre...