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Periodista deportivo y director del programa radial más escuchado en el país, Hernán Peláez se ha convertido en una de las voces más queridas en el país. Su amigo y por muchos años compañero radial, Édgar Artunduaga, hace la más completa biografía no solo del periodista sino del ser humano.
Hernán Peláez cumplió 75 años el pasado 29 de enero. De estos, 54 años ha estado vinculado al mundo de la radio y el fútbol. Jorge Hernán Peláez, su hijo mayor, se dedicó durante meses a escribir una biografía de su padre a partir de sus propios recuerdos, de los de otros familiares, colegas, jugadores, técnicos, humoristas y amigos. Todos destacaron del comentarista su rectitud, independencia, profesionalismo, franqueza y calidad humana. Este libro es una suma de cariño y anécdotas sobre un hombre que, con justa razón, es considerado un crack, una leyenda viva, y se ha ganado el corazón de millones de colombianos que cariñosamente lo oyen y lo llaman "doctor Peláez".
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital in Latin America, and has often been rhetorically deployed by governments for various ends; rarely, however, has football’s power and potential been used in such a deliberate, strategic and active way towards a national peace process and targeted such enduring divisions that have historically impeded a sen...
World band radio boasts a listening audience of six hundred million people worldwide. This book is the world's #1 selling shortwave publication, zeroing in on news, sports, and entertainment, from Afghanistan to Zambia, and including award-winning ratings of world band radios and "how-to" articles by experts. 100 photos, 50 in color.
Elegant rusticity meets unpretentious luxury in the work of this award-winning architecture firm. Howard Backen, award-winning principal of the architecture firm Backen Gillam Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes comfort over pretension and elegant simplicity over complication that tends to serve the ego of architects. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of that this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa Valley, hilltop homes, seaside retreats, and lakeside hideaways. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades. Natural materials, such as wood, stone, and brick form th...
Passport to World Band Radio is the world's #1 selling short-wave publication. Like the Energizer bunny, it keeps on pulling in tens of thousands of readers year after year -- 800,000 copies of past editions have already been sold. Now expanded to nearly 600 pages, Passport covers news, music, sports and drama in English and other languages from hundreds of public broadcasters and private stations: Radio Australia to the BBC, Radio France to the Voice of Vietnam. Passport provides listening schedules in all three formats: -- Country-by-country-- Channel-by-channel-- Hour-by-hourIt includes award-winning tests and rankings of all world band radios, with detailed reports on new models. Rounding out this soup-to-nuts title are addresses, helpful how-to articles, and on-the-spot global reportage by leading personalities. Passport to World Band Radio has been hailed in hundreds of publications and broadcasts worldwide. It is richly illustrated with colorful graphics and cover artworkto entice browsers.
Parece que fue ayer cuando siendo niños nos decían: "tranquilo que apenas estás empezando a vivir". Como si fueran instantes, ya pasaron siete décadas y, aunque sabemos que no hay una segunda oportunidad para volver a vivir, tenemos el privilegio de la memoria que nos permite recordar el pasado de quienes hoy somos padres y abuelos, y pensar en cómo fueron nuestra infancia, adolescencia y juventud.