Paul Johnson

Continuación de Creadores, el presente Héroes ofrece una galería de perfles, escritos con sabiduría e intuición, sobre hombres y mujeres de cuyos logros aún nos benefciamos: de Alejandro Magno, Tomás Moro, Julio Cesar o Juana de Arco a Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe o Juan Pablo II.Una refexion sobre la esencia de ser heroe hecha por un historiador britanico de referencia.

Socrates concibió la filosofía no como una actividad académica, sino humana. Un lider filosófico tenía que ser mucho más que un pensador. Tenía que ser una buena persona para que la cuestión de la virtud no fuese una idea abstracta sino un asunto practico. Quienes la practicaban tenian que ser poseer el coraje para sacrificar todo, incluida la propia vida, para perseguir la excelencia de la mente. Esto es lo que Socrates hizo, y esta es la razon por la que le honramos y saludamos como la filosofia personificada.

El afamado historiador británico Paul Johnson aborda en este libro el misterio de la creación desde distintas perspectivas, que le sirven para ofrecernos una semblanza clara y efectiva de la historia del arte y de su papel en nuestra sociedad: explica, por ejemplo, como Jane Austen, Madame de Stael y George Eliot lucharon para que sus voces fuesen oidas en una sociedad eminentemente masculina; Victor Hugo le permite plantearse hasta que punto genio e inteligencia son sinonimos; mientras que el ensayo final se detiene en Picasso y Disney, y plantea cual de estos dos genios tuvo mayor influencia en las artes visuales del siglo XX.

Johnson ilumina las distintas fases de la carrera de Churchill: sus andanzas como joven oficial de caballería al servicio del Imperio Británico, su brillante preparación de la Marina como primer lord del Almirantazgo durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, su profetica denuncia de Hitler y su heroico papel como primer ministro en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, hasta llegar al anciano estadista que vaticino el advenimiento de la Guerra Fria.

WICKET! 1st over: Ponting c Swann b Anderson 0 (Australia 0-2) Ponting has gone first ball! I dont believe it! An unbelievable start for England! Ponting has gone for a golden duck in his 150th Test and England have gone wild. Stop the clocks! Shout it from the rooftops! Australia are in utter disarray!The Ashes 2010-11 saw the coming together of the old foes in Australias backyard. Back in freezing, snowy England, untold numbers huddled around their TV sets to watch the struggle into the early hours of the morning. But for many the joy was only complete with the accompaniment of guardian.co.uks Over By Over.Around the globe they joined in from unlikely locations, offering stories of emotional drinking, marital predicament and witty observations as the series built to an astonishing climax. Could England really be about to crush Australia - in a manner not witnessed for a generation? There were Cooks runs - all 766 of them, Andersons wickets, Priors catching and the power of Pietersen. We saw established stars like Graeme Swann and Andrew Strauss, unpredicted stars like Tim Bresnan, spasmodic stars like Mitchell Johnson and fading stars like Paul Collingwood and Ricky Ponting.Now 766 and All That allows us to savour again the sweet taste of that absolute victory - exactly as it happened, Over by Over.

Este libro es un examen de las bases morales y racionales desde las cuales los intelectuales aconsejan a la humanidad ¿Con qué cuidado examinan las evidencias? ¿De qué manera llegan a sus conclusiones? Estas preguntas son respondidas en el estudio

Edición especial de La historia de cristianismo de Paul Johnson. Desde los tiempos de san Pablo, pasando por los primeros concilios de la Iglesia y llegando hasta nuestros días, Johnson ofrece una amplia panoramica de la religion que durante mas de dos milenios ha ejercido una influencia mayor en el destino de la humanidad que cualquier filosofia. El autor hace gala en este libro de su maestria en el arte de contar la historia de una forma accesible, rica en detalles, apreciaciones y anecdotas, y al mismo tiempo ofrece los datos necesarios para responder a cuestiones esenciales sobre la evolucion de la fe cristiana.

El racionalismo ilustrado del siglo XVIII engendró una minoría, los llamados “filósofos”, cuya denominación más exacta sería la de “intelectuales”. El filósofo o intelectual no restringía su mirada a

A leading historian examines his faith in God, in the light of the historical evidence and his own personal experiences.

A history of the English people.In this much-acclaimed book, Paul Johnson looks back on two thousand years of English history and provides a radical interpretation of a remarkable people.Provocative and incisive, Johnson applies his journalistic skills to a shrewd analysis of the evolution of the English nation, charting the growth of the small but newly independent state, enveloped in the myths of the Dark Ages, into its modern-day status as a prominent player upon the world stage.

A fresh and vigorous appreciation of the intellectual liberation and artistic triumphs of the Italian Renaissance.The development of the first universities from the 12th century onwards, growing wealth and patronage in certain cities, and above all the invention of printing and cheap paper, provided essential conditions for the Renaissance. And it was in literature and scholarship that it began, in the rebirth of classical culture that loosened the Churchs iron grip on visual art. Paul Johnson tells the story, in turn, of Renaissance literature, sculpture, building and painting. Despite the critical importance of inventions outside Italy - printing in Germany and oil painting in Holland - he locates the Renaissance firmly in Italy and in Florence above all, between 1400 and 1560. There are memorable sketches of the key figures - the frugal and shockingly original Donatello, the awesome Michelangelo, the delicacy of Giovanni Bellini. The final part of the book charts the spread and decline of the Renaissance, as the Catholic Church repositioned itself to counter the Reformation which the Renaissance had itself helped to produce.

Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for everPaul Johnson, the celebrated historian, grew up in Tunstall, one of the six towns around Stoke-on-Trent that made up `the Potteries. From an early age he was fascinated by the strange beauty of its volcanic landscape of fiery furnaces belching out heat and smoke. As a child he often accompanied his father - headmaster of the local art school and desperate to find jobs for his students, for this was the Hungry Thirties - to the individual pottery firms and their coal-fired ovens. His adored mother and father are at the heart of this story and his older sisters who, as much as his parents, brought him up. Children made their own amusements to an extent unimaginable today, and his life was extraordinarily free and unsupervised. No door was locked - `Poverty was everywhere but so were the Ten Commandments. The book ends in 1938 as the 11-year-old author queues at the town-hall for a gas mask.