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The day Víctor and Ur break up their relationship, he buys the Internet domain Monstruopedia.com and creates a tool that allows you to identify your ex with a type of monster based on the answers to a test. A few days after settling in...

Girl Meets Boy was published in 2007 and is one of his most appreciated books by critics and readers. An unforgettable revisitation of Ovid's Metamorphoses that tells us about the transforming power of love.

Dacia Maraini was one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's closest friends, with whom she shared readings, film projects and even a house, when Dacia had the writer Alberto Moravia as a partner. The three traveled the world and especially Africa, trips to which Maria Callas...

Timandra is one of the most fascinating female figures of Greek antiquity. A woman of exceptional beauty, she knew how to congregate in her house the best minds of her time, from Socrates to Euripides. But she, above all, she transcended for, as the...

Knowledge has never been so important and at the same time so suspicious. In the era of triumphant rationality, institutionalized science, technological advances and intelligent systems, a strange constellation appears: while science enjoys enormous recognition, many people distrust it, from mere distrust to extreme...

In the fourth century a. C., Aristotle founds his school in Athens, a much-improved version of the Platonic Academy, where he himself studied in his youth. Aristotle's teachings do not expire, the author tells us. Extensively tracing the work of Aristotle, inserted in the...

In 1994, Stephen Cooper, biographer of John Fante, scholar of his work and preparer of this edition, visited the writer's widow, who after many conversations allowed him to enter a secret room where manuscripts, drafts, numbers of old magazines and other papers were kept....

A terrible event took place during the childhood of the great-grandmother and the consequences will spread throughout generations. It is a book about the impact of political and family events, about the way in which memories are transmitted, about how History influences private stories......

A hypnotic narrative essay, travel book, and non-fiction novel that takes place during one hundred days of the year 2020. From mid-February, when Reinaldo Laddaga contracted the coronavirus, to the demonstrations that caused the murder of George Floyd. During those strange months, the author...

This book tells the troubled and overwhelming story of Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), a French aristocrat converted to Christianity thanks to the faith and devotion he saw in Islam. Few biographies as moving and emblematic as that of this strange missionary, who had to...

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes...

Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the...

Victor Klemperer's will to testify to his life under Nazi terror was reflected in about five thousand pages of newspapers. Written under constant threat of death due to his Jewish status -his marriage to an Aryan woman saved him from deportation-, several decades after...

Dr. Mukwege, in his book -part autobiography and part a call against sexual violence in times of peace and war- highlights the role of the extraordinary women who shaped and inspired him. The book also denounces the rapes and sexual violence suffered by women...

Year 2027. France is preparing for a presidential election that is very likely to be won by a TV star. The strong man behind this candidacy is the current Economy and Finance Minister, Bruno Juge, for whom Paul Raison, the protagonist of the novel,...

Why a handbook? Because it aspires to be easy to handle and easy to understand and its intention is fundamentally practical. Why portable? Because it is a tribute to walkers. Portable philosophy is an effort to liberate thought from the seclusion to which it...

The figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shines like lightning in a post-war European culture. A poet, essayist, and filmmaker, his freewheeling intellectual attitude allowed him to be a lucid, astute, and compassionate commentator on the Italy of his day. For Pasolini, poetry was...

This small manual is an introduction to the use of the pendulum. From their extensive experience, the authors review the different techniques that exist within this art and put in the hands of the reader numerous ways of using it and different types of...

Eva Ki confesses that she is capable of retaining the memories of many of her past lives: a life in Persia, in which, for a thousand and one nights, she told stories to her husband, King Sahriyar; life with her favorite mother, with whom...

"The so-called «normal thinking» culture has its codes and its logic, which are generally beyond the understanding of atypical people (the over efficient, the hypersensitive, those that «think-too much»). Like all cultures, this one has its strengths and weaknesses, its immovable founding myths, a...