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A century later, the uncomfortable prophetic clarity of The Crisis of the Modern World remains urgent reading. In these pages, René Guénon (1886-1951) lays bare the root of our time: a spiritual aberration so profound that it turns modernity into a veritable "Dark Age."...

Why do many of us wake up some days with headaches, fatigue, or irritability, as if something invisible were affecting us all at the same time? Why do hospitals experience spikes in emergency room visits for no apparent reason? What elements of our environment...

Stroller books accompany your baby in their first sensory discoveries related to touch and sight. Attach me to the stroller and take me with you on your first outdoor walks... you'll meet lots of nice friends! Little ones will discover the different elements found...

Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from...

A child bitten by a bat, a Victorian lady stroking her harmless lapdog, a soldier surprised by a rabid wolf in remote mountains... stories separated by centuries and geography, but united by the same outcome: death. Rabies is still the most lethal virus known...

Being a mother, and being a mother at the same time as other mothers to accompany her, but also with whom to compare herself. Being a daughter, and being the daughter of a mother who fights to not only be a mother, and to...

As a very young child, Mario Obrero, from a Spanish-speaking family, asked his parents to buy him a Galician-Spanish dictionary so he could understand the language of the place where they went on holiday. Later, he immersed himself in Catalan - in its Valencian...

Few works have so brilliantly described the fragility of the individual in the consumer society of the 21st century as this text by Zygmunt Bauman. In a world marked by acceleration, obsolescence, and identity constructed by market offerings, education no longer forms individuals, but...

A Brilliant History of the Vikings and Their World. The Viking Age witnessed an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. Viking traders, pirates, explorers, and colonizers traveled from North America to the Asian steppes and sailed every sea. But for centuries, these peoples have...

David Trueba takes us back to 1969, the year he was born and "a defining symbol of all vice versas." Emerging from his mother's womb, he describes the place he is about to reach as the youngest member of a large family: the evolution...

Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that...

The Divine Comedy is not just a story with a beginning, development, and end. It is, first and foremost, an encrypted text in which the reader must bring order and detect the countless pearls scattered throughout the work, whether hidden or obvious. It was...

Human beings spend approximately one-third of their lives in solitude. Far from being wasted time or a cause for distress, loneliness can become a space of extraordinary personal potential. Based on the latest scientific findings, The Paradox of Solitude demystifies one of the most...

When Prince Xian was a boy, a white snake bit his mother and condemned her to a slow, painful death. The only known cure is an elusive spirit pearl—or an antidote created from the rare white snake itself. Desperate and determined, Xian travels to...

A powerful antidote to deadline dread, time guilt, and chronic rushing—from the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup. In a world obsessed with squeezing the most out of every moment, the fear of falling behind can trap us in a paralyzing...

Pirke Avot, or “Chapters of the Fathers,” is one of the most unique and cherished works in the rabbinic tradition. This treatise from the Mishnah compiles ethical and philosophical teachings from Judaism and is unique among Talmudic treatises because it focuses on morality and...

Year 2100. The Museum of the 21st Century opens. The text we read is from the permanent exhibition catalog, written with poetic and essayistic force by an artificial intelligence. It recounts humanity's ancestral relationship with technology; how hybrids and algorithmic consciousnesses were born; how...

In The Iridium Platinum Metro, Alvaro Pombo deploys an astonishing wealth of registers to portray the emotions and conflicts of a group of characters in 1980s Madrid. Love, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this exceptional novel, which won the Critics' Prize and established Pombo...

With a strong influence from German Expressionism, Nabokov constructs a cinematic satire about a prudish, provincial young man who bursts into the cold paradise of a nouveau riche Berlin couple. He becomes the wife's lover, and she convinces him to kill her husband. According...