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The main idea of this book, which abounds in words, dates and data, is basically very simple. It is about continuity. Not in the sense of a culture that ends after a time, of gods that disappear and, in their place, other cultures appear...

At the age of thirteen, I was a project of a cursed poet and misguided philosopher. In a tattered notebook I recorded a terrible discovery: the only two sure things in life are death and suffering. Unfortunately, ‘adolescence’ - which is a suffering for...

A “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts,...

When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial...

Here, premier translator Thomas Cleary presents a rich collection of writings on bushido by warriors, scholars, political advisors, and educators from the fifteenth century through the nineteenth century that provide a comprehensive, historically rich view of samurai life and philosophy. Training the Samurai Mind gives an...

In the face of terrorist attacks, Israel, although it has the recognized right to defend itself, cannot find a way to act that guarantees the protection of civilians. Which brings us back to the Bible: “When a man strikes a pregnant woman in a...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) occurs when there is an abnormal increase in the entire bacterial population in the small intestine. It is the consequence of a prolonged imbalance of our microbiota, and, in most cases, it must be properly addressed, as it is...

Our hormones regulate everything from our sleep, to the way we eat, our stress response and our moods. In Hack Your Hormones Davinia Taylor, entrepreneur and biohacking pioneer, breaks down how best to optimise all of our hormones. Davinia gives symptom-led advice, backed up...

‘I created biological decoding in 1993, then swarmed it, today, in twenty-three countries, enabling women and men to become psycho-bio-therapists and thus help heal thousands of women and men [...], I created a new form of psychotherapy oriented towards the transformation of the body,...

Losing weight is, above all, a question of hormones. They are our body's chemical messengers, the ones that regulate hunger and satiety, the ones that modulate the digestive capacity to absorb calories, but also mood, serenity and sleep, conditions that push us to eat...

Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days...

The mechanisms of attraction and desire through an absorbing play of mirrors… With her newly acquired driver's license, Gabriela drives to her grandfather’s village in Ampurdán, where she will spend the summer filling in at the municipal library—her first job. It’s the day of...

Greta Helsing inherited her family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills: vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although she barely makes ends meet, this...

These magnificent and strange tales suggest that, in times of war, the main battle is maintaining humanity despite everything. In urban settings and in spaces far from civilization, through a broad and original mix of realistic, fantastic and science fiction registers, the beings that...

Cairo's Liberation Square is the scene where a large mass of people demonstrate, confronting the authorities: we are immersed in one of the main episodes of what is known as the Arab Spring. Four and a half centuries earlier, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn...

In 1980 a group of guerrillas take up arms in the Andes and declare war on the Peruvian state. Their leader, a university professor who calls himself Chairman Gonzalo, harangues his armed group, Sendero Luminoso, to unleash a bloodbath to end the oppression of...

Another coming-of-age novel? The most caustic, funny, provocative and fierce novel of adolescence, without concessions... Franki is 15 years old and a virgin, he is eroticized, sex occupies his entire mind. While masturbating with a Treatise on Sexual Psychopathy from 1888, Franki transforms into...

An eccentric and resentful abbess, whose mysterious death is announced from the first pages, a friar who has exhausted his life searching for God through reason, a quarrelsome marquis, his wife, Doña Hilda, who goes to the convent to swear her virginity, a strange...

At the dawn of the 20th century, the name of Antonio Meulener resonates in Spanish military circles and the media as that of a visionary and audacious inventor. This military man not only possessed exceptional talent, but also an unwavering determination to change the...

A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many...