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Did you know what happened at the premiere of La traviata, or that Bach died blind and that Stravinski suffered from severe hypochondria? This book gives another type of answers to the chiaroscuros of some great composers, and it makes understandable many of the...

The book When we were Arabs is a declaration of principles. The complexity of our history requires postmodern approaches to recognize the liquid borders of realities such as Europe and Islam, especially if it is written from a European land where there was a...

The war between Spain and Morocco in 1957 and 1958 took place in two very different scenarios, Ifni and Western Sahara. It was a dark contest, hidden from the quiet and suffering Spanish public opinion. When the fighting began, the armed forces were in...

The myth of the Amazons comes from Ancient Greece. The ethnographic data on these equestrian warlike women influenced the Greco-Roman philosophy; went to the Islamic and Christian world, and reached the New World, where a river honors these female beings. / El mito de...

This introduction to Islamic philosophy aims to offer the readers, as a reflection, some critical tools in order to delve into the development of Islam from its earliest beginnings, dismantling fallacious clichés and offering an enriching and well-founded cultural vision. / Esta introducción a...

In recent years, no History of Spain has been published in a single volume that serves as a reading for the general public and, at the same time, as a manual for students. With the desire to seek the truth, this work appears in...

The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists, this book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies...

The history of science hides secrets all over the place: scientists with promising careers that were cut short by failed experiments with fatal outcomes, vile murders, executions, poisonings, overdoses... This book is a true black chronicle, with a bit of humor. / La historia...

Did you know that Engels, one of the great philosophers of communism, left a great inheritance? Or that Spinoza's books were burned at the University of Oxford after the author died? And that Santa Teresa is considered the first feminist in history? This book...

The first single voyage of global circumnavigation was that of the ship Victoria, between 1519 and 1522, known as the Magellan–Elcano expedition. This work recollects not only this incredible feat, but also explains in an entertaining way all the knowledge and technical and social...

An entertaining, informative and rigorous text that rescues anecdotes and lesser-known episodes of the greatest empire in history. Did you know that a fly had a funeral worthy of an emperor? That the first escrache of history was staged by Roman women? All this,...

From 1914 to 1918, the world was overwhelmed facing a battle in which the main powers of the time were involved and in which, for the first time in history, there were no geographical limits for the battlefields. This historical essay will help us...

Readers will learn about the bloody prologue that took place in 1937 in the Chinese city of Nanking, as a frightening advance of the Second World War, and some facts that are often overlooked by historians of the conflict, such as the systematic massacres...

In addition to the well-known battles, regular sieges and large-scale maneuvers, the medieval and early modern wars also included murders, kidnappings, betrayals and sabotages. This work by Yuval Hoah Harari examines a wide variety of special operations from the 11th to the 16th century....

Leander Knollis, Earl of Charrington, wants a home and a wife. As he’s unable to fall in love he encounters the perfect candidate, a woman so devoted to her late husband's memory that she could never love again. Judith Rossiter can’t turn down the...

Claudia knows she has no place in Joseph’s aristocratic world. Now, that world is about to be rocked by scandal, an arranged marriage, a secret that will shock the town, and a man from Claudia’s past conspiring to drive the lovers apart. Joseph is...

Michael Maellark is a dandy who is dedicated to squandering money and giving himself up to morphine, alcohol, and of course, sex. His life is a bewilderment of loud situations, where he struggles to stay on his feet and keep moving like an automaton....

This biographical novel or novelised biography reconstructs the life of a real character who seems as if he has come straight out of fiction. A rash and extravagant character, with an almost implausible life story allows the author to sketch a convincing portrait of...

Esther, who is member of a Jewish family, was born on the same day that the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War, was signed. His father, Dr. Paul Dukas, is obsessed with his personal and professional ascent, and after converting to...

In 1555, Emperor Charles V abandons his position to give it to his son Philip. Disappointed by an ideal impossible to achieve, exhausted by the incessant journeys through his kingdoms, he devotes himself to his last passion, worthy of a prince of the Renaissance:...