Nikola Tesla

The author narrates the life of Isabella I, Queen of Castile and Len. Isabella is known to generations as the queen who approved support of Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World and was involved in the expulsion of the Jews under the Inquisition. Along with her spiritual advisers, she reformed the Spanish churches.

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Escrito en primera persona, esta autobiografía es la presentación al mundo de la nueva vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos. "Estoy hablando". Con esa contundente frase dicha en medio de un debate electoral se daba a conocer la que más tarde acabaría siendo la primera mujer vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos. La primera mujer y la primera afroamericana. Una frase que resume como ninguna otra lo que ella es y, más importante aún, lo que representa su elección. En estas memorias, Kamala recorre una trayectoria personal que desde sus orígenes está impregnada de la lucha constante por la...

A look behind the scenes at Diana Vreeland’s Vogue, showing the legendary editor in chief in her own inimitable words. When Diana Vreeland became editor in chief of Vogue in 1963, she initiated a transformation, shaping the magazine into the dominant U.S. fashion publication. Vreeland’s Vogue was as entertaining and innovative as it was serious about fashion, art, travel, beauty, and culture. Vreeland rarely held meetings and communicated with her staff and photographers through memos dictated from her office or Park Avenue apartment. This extraordinary compilation of more than 250 pieces ...