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1) Chita
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"She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero--until the entertainment world renamed her. But Dolores--the irreverent side of the sensual, dark, and ferocious Chita--was always present and influential in creating some of Broadway's most iconic roles, including Anita in West Side Story, Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, Velma in Chicago, Aurora in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Claire in The Visit. Written in gratitude to her fans and with the hope that...
3) Memorias
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Lamar Odom es sin lugar a dudas el enfant terrible de la reciente historia de la NBA. Hijo de un padre ausente y drogadicto y una madre que murió muy joven de cáncer, tuvo que abrirse camino en el barrio neoyorquino de Queens, donde muy pronto empezaría a demostrar un talento portentoso para el baloncesto, deporte en el que se refugiaría para huir de sus demonios.
En estas reveladoras y turbulentas memorias, Lamar Odom no solo da cuenta de su...
5) Elon Musk
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2023.
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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--
As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after...
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2022.
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"Hannah Gadsby's unique standup special Nanette was a viral success--and to some, her worldwide fame may have seemed like an overnight sensation. But like everything else about Gadsby, there's more to her success than meets the eye. In her first book, the queer Australian comedian, writer, and actress takes us through the key moments in her life that ultimately led to the creation of Nanette and her startling declaration that she was quitting comedy....
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2021, c2014.
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"Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits. Aretha turned the industry on its head by refueling pop...
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2019.
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Las actrices de la epoca dorada del cine toman el relevo a las Divas Rebeldes y Reinas Malditas de Cristina Morato. Las historias de estas cuatro grandes estrellas de cine nos trasladan a la epoca dorada de Hollywood. Tenian el mundo a sus pies, contaban con una legion de admiradores y protagonizaron sonados romances con los galanes mas atractivos. Verdaderas diosas a los ojos del publico, fueron las mas deseadas y fotografiadas del mundo. La temperamental...
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[2016]
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"Renowned journalist Jorge Ramos shares insights and experiences from his long career in journalism with interviews with such luminaries as Fidel Castro, Barbara Walters, Desmond Tutu, Spike Lee, Hugo Chavez, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson"--
Después de treinta fascinantes años de estar desenmascarando la verdad, Jorge Ramos, el periodista ganador de varios premios Emmy, habla por primera vez de lecciones de vida fundamentales a través de cautivadoras...
11) Deberias hablar con alguien: una psicologa, su terapeuta y un viaje revelador por el alma humana
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2021.
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"Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change"--From English language edition.
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2021.
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Madonna: cantante y actriz, bailarina y escritora, madre y artista multidisciplinar. Esta biografia ilustrada es la merecida oda a una genia irrepetible e inabarcable y a una carrera unica llena de polemicas sonadas, hits atemporales, brillantes estrategias de marketing y decenas de canciones que forman la banda sonora de varias generaciones.Durante decadas, Madonna se ha mantenido viva en nuestros televisores, casetes, tocadiscos, CD, iPod y playlists....
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2021.
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Juana de Arco, Malinche, Sofonisba Anguissola, Mary Wollstonecraft, Victoria Kent, Jane Austen, Marie Curie, Simone Weil o Rosa Parks también estuvieron ahí. Con brillantez y elegancia, Cristina Oñoro construye un fascinante relato que desmonta las narraciones sobre la humanidad y derriba los discursos misóginos heredados.A partir de una maravillosa red de conexiones entre experiencias femeninas, Cristina Oñoro cuenta otra historia del mundo,...
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2019.
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Jane Goodall confio en la intuicion, en la paciencia y en todo lo aprendido de sus observaciones de campo para tambalear los cimientos de la ciencia. "Ahora tendremos que redefinir lo que es una herramienta, lo que es el hombre o aceptar que los chimpances son humanos", afirmo su mentor Louis Leakey. Gracias a sus descubrimientos, las personas nos vimos ante un espejo nuevo. Tras sesenta anos estudiando a los primates, Goodall descubrio que su don...
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2019.
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"La impresionante trayectoria de Trevor Noah, desde su infancia en Sudafrica durante el apartheid hasta el escritorio de The Daily Show, comenzo con un acto criminal: su nacimiento. Trevor nacio de un padre suizo blanco y una madre Xhosa negra, en una epoca de la historia sudafricana en que tal union era castigada con cinco anos de prision. Como prueba viviente de la indiscrecion de sus padres, Trevor permanecio los primeros anos de su vida bajo el...
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[2023]
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"Carmen Rita Wong--media entrepreneur, former national television host, author and advice columnist--has always craved a sense of belonging. First, in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women cheering on her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. Then, among the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire, after her mother married her stepfather, Charlie, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad. She had always believed...
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2020.
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En este libro, Juan Jose Tamayo nos invita a un fascinante paseo por la vida de Pedro Casaldadiga.Para nuestro protagonista, es el <>, todo el proceso de las comunidades eclesiales de base, de las luchas politicas. <>, no liderar, ni protagonizar, ni sustituir. El protagonismo en su liberacion le corresponde al pueblo. Pedro lo tenia muy claro. Por eso se presento siempre como companero, acompanante. ...
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2021.
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"Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. She went to school, played with her friends, and never thought of herself as being different--until the advent of the Holocaust. Torn from her home, Dita was sent to Auschwitz with her family. From her time in the children's block of Auschwitz to her liberation from the camps and on into her adulthood, Dita's powerful memoir sheds light on an incredible life--one that is...
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2021.
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Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, the biographies trace the ideas, friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired the great thinkers and influenced their work, providing revealing insights into what drove them to question the meaning of life and come up with new ways of understanding the world and the history of ideas
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