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LA VIDA EN MÉXICO EN TIEMPOS DE ECHEVERRÍA- El palacio del baile fino- María Félix nunca será pobreLA VIDA EN MÉXICO EN TIEMPOS DE LÓPEZ PORTILLO- En los ochenta años de Renato Leduc- Pellicer, ni igual, ni semejante, ni distinto- En la misma ciudad ante distinta gente- En Los Angeles. Rehabilitacion cultural de la rumba- Miss Universo. Alabaran con creces tu belleza- Los paseos de Charles Chaplin- Y si no se apantallan es porque ni eso saben- Si una nacion entera se averguenza...- Algun dia una lampara votiva- Sobre comicos y TV. Otro articulo que se me va por falta de tesis- Cine nacional (1). La crisis, de la industria de la crisis- Cine nacional (2). No hay peor sordo que el que no quiere ver- La reconquista de la calle. Un solo Señor, una sola fe- La Republica reunida en Acapulco Mexico año cero- Dios bendiga señores con gusto este dia de placer tan dichoso- La Ciudad de Mexico entre ruinas y entre fosas- El embute o la libertad de sumision- El teatro en Mexico. El albur vence a la elevacion de conciencias- El aborto no es un gusto, es un ultimo recurso Fragmento de: Carlos Monsivais. La vida en Mexico 1976-2010 Tomo 1 Echeverria/Lopez Portillo/De la Madrid.

“Mi reino por un cambio de paradigmas”“Proceso No. 1257, 3 de diciembre de 2000La frase más oída estos días, por lo menos en los círculos que cuentan, es el cambio de paradigmas, una manera como otra

Cadena de promesasProceso No. 631, 5 de diciembre de 1988A los dueños certificados del poder, no tiene caso (si es que se pudiera) regatearles las horas del triunfalismo. El triunfalismo es sano a su modo, convierte en multitudes civicas a los cuerpos de seguridad, agudiza el espiritu de elite, implanta en los camarografos el gusto por las tomas reverenciales, divide al pueblo en vallas secundarias (indiferentes y oposicionistas anexadas) y vallas de honor. Y concedasele a los priistas un tiempo en el sexenio de credibilidad-por-fatiga, y de triunfalismo. Se los merecen. Han soportado el 6 de julio con todo y caida del Sistema (ya tan famosa como el Sistema mismo), la injuria que es la existencia misma de la oposicion, los malos modos de la opinion publica, el huesped inesperado que es la sociedad civil. Es justa la tregua.El primero de diciembre en el Palacio Legislativo, en la toma de posesion de Carlos Salinas de Gortari, el triunfalismo es la psicologia inevitable. ¡Ya la hicimos! Una vez mas, estamos aqui todos juntos, y asi seguiremos, porque a la izquierda y a la derecha estan los abismos de la falta de poderes y honores del[]Fragmento de: Carlos Monsivais. La vida en Mexico 1976-2020 · Salinas de Gortari/Zedillo.

La autobiografía de Isabel Preysler.Como nunca lo había hecho, Isabel Preysler escribe sus memorias para romper de una vez por todas con los falsos mitos que desde hace años circulan sobre ella. En Mi verdadera historia, Isabel nos descubre no solo su mundo, tambien una epoca sorprendente de España de la que fue protagonista muchas veces de forma involuntaria.Con la elegancia que le caracteriza, recorre con sinceridad los diferentes capitulos de su pasado, desde su infancia en Filipinas hasta los grandes amores que marcaron su destino.Valiente, autocritica, tolerante, divertida y, sobre todo, defensora a ultranza de la libertad individual, expone su manera de ser y de vivir, y relata los momentos decisivos de su vida que la han convertido en la mujer que es hoy.A traves de su propia voz, descubriremos a una mujer que siempre lucho por su independencia y que se siente en paz con su presente. Y conoceremos los hitos de su biografia desde un angulo tan intimo que impactara a los lectores.

Guerreras olvidadas. Heroínas silenciadas.Durante siglos, la historia de la guerra ha sido contada de forma casi exclusiva en masculino. Pero desde los campos de batalla de la Antigüedad hasta las tr

Las vibrantes memorias del periodista que más veces ha estado —y sigue estando— en primera fila de la actualidad.Pedro J. Ramírez lleva 45 años siendo director de periódicos. Ahora lo es de El Españo

La biografía que revela los primeros pasos de Inge Feltrinelli, antes de ser una leyenda del mundo editorial.De niña, a Inge Schönthal la llaman Ingemaus, «ratoncita». Pero no hay nada diminuto en el

«Honesta, curativa e inspiradora... Me ha hecho sentir visto y menos solo».-Javier Zamora, autor de Solito, bestseller de The New York Times La fascinanante historia de cómo una mujer latina, hija de

Análisis político y testimonial de uno de los protagonistas en la transición de Alianza Popular a Partido Popular.Las memorias narran una parte que apenas se ha contado de la Historia de la Transición politica en España, centrada en la transformacion del partido Alianza Popular en lo que se convertiria en el Partido Popular, y el papel fundamental que desempeño durante la Transicion Española. El autor, ademas, ofrece un analisis politico y una serie de anecdotas reveladoras a traves de los debates internos, las luchas por el poder y las tensiones ideologicas que marcaron el camino hacia la conversion.

Government agencies and rival factions were closing in. His look-alike had already fallen victim to professional hitmen and his once-powerful allies in Cuban intelligence and the DEA could no longer guarantee his safety. How did a boy from Manchester revolutionise the criminal world and become the largest marijuana trafficker in American history?This is the never-before-told story of Harold Derber, the debonair British Merchant Navy veteran who invented the modern drug trade with his groundbreaking invention: the drug mothership. Through his ghost fleet of drug ships, Derber eventually become the chief supplier of marijuana to post-war America. This gripping true tale follows Derber from humble beginnings in Manchester, England to his assassination in the sun-kissed streets of Miami. Along the way, Derbers story takes in some of the most significant events of the twentieth century - the Second World Wars Battle of the Atlantic, the Cuban Revolution and the murky shadows of the Cold War.Shedding light on a litany of plots including arms and refugee smuggling, large-scale stock fraud and Derbers rise to the pinnacle of the drug world, this remarkable transatlantic story paints a complex picture of a singular figure and brings his extraordinary life into focus for the first time.

Since their fairy-tale wedding in 2011 and the announcement in December 2012 that William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were expecting their first child, the British have taken the young couple into their hearts. The first decades of the 21st century have seen a surge of pride for our Royal Family as never before and the birth of HRH Prince George of Cambridge, our future king, has been greeted with genuine joy. This celebratory and beautifully illustrated guide not only commemorates this Royal birth but looks at the history of children of the monarchy from Queen Elizabeth II to her great-grandchildren. Age-old customs, ceremonies, christenings, toys and pastimes, nannies, nurseries and the Royal line of succession are also explored, presenting an illuminating portrait of Royal children through the ages.

A fresh look at Labours greatest ever Prime Minister

A true story based on a false storyLate one night in February 2018, the award-winning Irish journalist Olaf Tyaransen returned home to find his name trending on Twitter.To his horror, he discovered that Brooke Magnanti - controversial author of the Belle de Jour books - had published an article accusing him of physically and sexually assaulting another woman a few years earlier.Tyaransen had never met Magnanti, and the woman in question had recently died in tragic circumstances. While the allegation was completely untrue, it was already going viral. Hundreds of people were rushing to judgement and sharing Magnantis article.In a painfully honest and compelling memoir, Tyaransen details the emotional, social and professional impact of that false accusation.His lacerating, unflinching account highlights the importance of due process, the mindless cruelty of crowds and the potentially fatal consequences of online vigilantism

Blending biography, memoir and art criticism, Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives explores the ever-shifting tensions between family, labour and gender through the history of embroidery, or fancy work. At the heart of the book is Alice Hattricks encounter with the embroidery designer May Morris and her circle: from her father William Morris to her mother Jane, an artists model and embroiderer herself, and M.F., Mays gender non-conforming partner for twenty years. Searching for guidance, Hattrick looks to Mays life alongside others who have found, in textiles, a means of resistance to understand better their own queer identity, family ties and fractious working conditions in an ableist society. In the ephemeral nature of textiles, Hattrick finds a mirror to archival research. How can the past help us to imagine alternative domestic circumstances and create unconstrained lives of our own, especially when not all traces remain? Expansive in thought, form and time, Fancy Work is a radical and thrilling work that reminds us that we can think differently, inviting us to place the needle in our own hands and stitch ourselves a loop in the chain.

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, posing a singular question: What were you doing on October 7, 2023? She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, who have witnessed what history may one day remember as one of the most savage wars of our time. Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable loss homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated and many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their stories, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate. The title, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, is adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombing.

In 1999 my expedition found George Mallorys body on Mount Everest. The intense public interest in his tragic fate obscured the other actors in that dramatic story.The pioneers who attempted the first climbs in 1922 and 1924 knew nothing about the mountain other than its height. They had to learn the hard way about the lack of oxygen, the jet-stream winds, the illnesses of altitude, and the vital importance of the Sherpas. They fought cerebral oedema, frostbite, hypothermia and raging thirst in the cold, thin air. They had to find a route, avoid avalanches, and work out what to do when confronted by an insuperable rock climb at extreme altitude. Many of them died.Howard Somervell was Mallorys closest friend on the mountain in 1922 and 1924. He was an exceptionally gifted man: he had a double first at Cambridge, he was a talented artist and an accomplished musician. He served as a surgeon at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War and was one of the foremost alpinists of the day when he was invited to join the 1922 Mount Everest expedition. After Everest he was awarded an Olympic gold medal for Alpinism in 1924. But in India he will be remembered as a surgeon who dedicated the remainder of his life to healing the sick.Those pioneers showed the way. Somervell took part in the first attempt to climb the mountain, and his oxygen-free height record in 1924 stood for over 50 years. On his descent he sat down alone suffocating from a frost-bitten larynx. He prepared to die, but at the last moment performed a medical manoeuvre which cleared his airway. He survived to struggle back down.Howard Somervell was my cousin, and I am one of the last Everesters left alive to have spoken with a climber from George Mallorys party.

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art and ideas. Could academia live up to the hopes and dreams he had invested in it? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of reading and writing seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. Its at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. In vivid present-tense fragments, Dillon describes his first encounters with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. He recalls being seduced by ambivalence, ambiguity and androgyny on the page and in the life he hoped his reading would transfigure. The era he describes seemed to demand new ways of thinking about aesthetics and politics. Today, when rights are fragile, arts and humanities attacked, and students dismissed as radicals or narcissists, Ambivalence is an argument for the poetic and revolutionary force of changing yourself and even the world by changing what you know.

On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym hall of a primary school in Dunblane armed with four legally owned handguns and in less than four minutes fired 105 bullets, killing 16 young children, their teacher and injuring many more. It was a crime that first shocked the world then changed the nation.Based on original archival research and exclusive interviews with parents, politicians and police, One Morning in March tells for the first time the incredible and powerful true story of how, in their darkest hour, a band of parents used their grief as fuel in a fight to forever ban handguns in Britain, and create the tightest gun laws in the world.

The Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and his cruelty to women, nonetheless lived a life dominated by them - his charismatic mother, iron-willed mother-in-law, and his wife. A wife who, despite her husbands peccadilloes, and although their marriage was arranged in order for their families to combine financial and social capital, loved him devotedly for thirty years, through betrayal, imprisonment, and national turmoil.This biography reveals how Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, endured the chaos caused by her frenetically dissolute husband with grace, and how she carved out her own independence in an era when women were entitled to little of their own. She bore the Marquis three children, loved him, put up with his wild behaviour, edited his manuscripts for him, tried to help him escape prison by means legal and illegal, and acted throughout the decades of their marriage as his only reliable friend.Their complex relationship, set against the last years of the Ancien Regime in France, the Revolution and its aftermath, are brought to life with humour and compassion by Margaret Crosland, also the translator of Sades Gothic Tales. She shows how the Sade marriage symbolized the decay of the old aristocracy and conveys the struggle of one individual to establish her personal identity at a time when women in France had virtually no rights of their own.

Published ahead of the centenary of the Queens birth, this is a beautifully illustrated and exquisite hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars.Unlike her distant ancestors, a queen isnt shielded from enemies by suits of armour. The women of the House of Windsor - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, Wallis Simpson who would become Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced abdications and assassinations, revolutions, the rise of fascism and war. Their sartorial decisions projected power and perpetuity, diplomacy and even defiance. In this cinematic, vivid story of soft power and couture, Picardie uncovers the fascinating, little-known lives of the couturiers behind the clothes, figures like Hardy Amies, Edward Molyneux and Norman Hartnell, and traces the ways in which visual iconography safeguarded the monarchy even when their reign seemed to be hanging by a thread.