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With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest...

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly...

Pharmaceutical companies represent an all-powerful, profit-oriented entity that either directly controls, or works with government regulatory agencies to the detriment of the general consumer. In this book, Marco Pizzuti reveals astonishing facts about pharmaceutical industry. / Descubrimientos médicos no autorizados examina una serie de...

The Art of Always Being Right catalogues the 38 subtle tricks businessmen, negotiators, politicians, and lawyers use to gain advantage. It may well be that you are in the right. But once you enter into a debate with someone else being right is not...

Lisa Magano is an illustrator with extensive experience in creating patterns and drawings to eliminate stress, tension, anxiety and achieve relaxation. Charlotte Legris is a popular therapist who has worked in this collection by creating unique phrases and reflections for each of the titles....

To believe or to not believe is the great existential question. It is the choice that every human faces from the minute he is aware of his existence. Who is better prepared to confront the great problems of life, the believer or the non-believer?...

In this book you will find the masterliness of quartz crystals according to their qualities and applications. The mastery of quartz crystals has always accompanied the human being in all countries and cultures. In this fully illustrated book you will learn everything about these...

Roberto Calasso explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived over three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma, their likely hallucinogenic...

Slavoj Zizek analyzes the social and political movements which reject the false dichotomy between liberal capitalism and religious fundamentalism. Epignosis, which proposes new organizational forms to combat what has turned the economy into a gigantic casino, is also covered. / El «paraíso» del título...

What is the significance of bookshops in the collective imagination? In this brilliant and accessible essay, Jorge Carrión creates a possible chronology of the development of books. How do they become cultural myths, centers of intellectual conversation, or fortresses of political resistance? / ¿Cuál...

Throughout this book we have tried to objectively and concisely address the topic of drugs in today's society, focusing on their most characteristic aspects to try and give consistent news coverage with a preventive context, in order to be useful for professionals and scholars...

In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect-a minority with its own rich culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication. /...

Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter who spent a decade studying the UFO phenomenon, has reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, and radar case studies, corroborating physical evidence of encounters and investigations from first hand accounts about the incidents. / El tema de los...

For many years, Parker Palmer has worked on behalf of teachers and others who choose their vocations for reasons of the heart but may lose heart because of the troubled, sometimes toxic systems in which they work. Hundreds of thousands of readers have benefited...

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on just about everything. / Pienso como un genio, escribo como...

This work gathers material from the newspaper La Nación between 2006 and 2011, covering the great events that occurred to Liniers in that period, but also small details of his daily life. An approach full of sensitivity, intelligence, and humor. / ¿Pueden las mujeres...

Baggini's insightful book celebrates the power of reason, our best hope for dealing with the intractable quagmires of our time. The author calls for commitment to the notion of a “community of reason,” where disagreements are settled by debate and discussion, not brute force...

The passionate ranger Peter Wohlleben directs deep glances at a world barely investigated: the complex behaviors of forest and farm animals, including their emotional and conscious lives. This book allows us to understand that we and animals are closer than we imagined. / Amor,...

In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Color tells the vivid story of our culture. / La...

This essay goes into the reasons behind the systemic exploitation of human vocation and enthusiasm by a system that encourages anxiety, conflict, and dependence. / El entusiasmo es un libro generacional sobre quienes nacieron a finales del siglo XX y crecieron sin épica pero sí...