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In recent years, due to the great influence of social networks and driven by the COVID-19 crisis, denialist movements, pseudosciences and various anti-scientific attitudes have gained unusual visibility. To counteract the criticism that comes from these sectors, Antonio Diéguez proposes a defense of science...

Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children’s program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from...

Distractions are everywhere around you: that text you respond to quickly, just to get it out of the way. The newest money-making side hustle to cross your mind. The evening spent organizing your overflowing kitchen cupboards. Disruptions are the enemies of a life well...

"A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness." —RON CHERNOW, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton From “one of the crypto industry’s unlikely but most prominent critics” (Washington Post), an entertaining and well-researched account of the rise and fall of...

In a gray Earth where colors have disappeared, the only salvation is a little girl who must be protected. To counter the enemy's attempt to get hold of the "ancestral technology" contained in TChie's body, Avidya contacts the former professor Zashew. He is a...

In the latest story in the Waterstones Prize shortlisted series, Fergal learns how to deal with his anxiety about his friend coming to stay with one very simple tip . . Fergal’s friend Elspeth is coming to stay, and he is very excited ....

The passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, represents the central and indispensable foundations on which the Christian religion was built. What do we know for sure about these fundamental episodes? To answer this question, this work offers us an aseptic, documented and rigorous vision...

Written on a scale of Homeric proportions, Herodotus' The Histories is the first and greatest work of prose that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to us. In it, the traveler from Halicarnassus explores an entire era and a universe with an inquiring and deeply humanistic...

Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb...

Simple tools, extraordinary results. Everything we’re learning about how we function best as humans in the digital age is pointing towards one of our oldest technologies: the pen and the page. Exploratory writing – writing for ourselves, not for others, writing when we don’t...

Akela is eighteen years old. She will be eighteen forever, because there are monsters that are impossible to defeat. Although that's not what matters. Maybe that's not the story she wants to tell. Or maybe it is inevitable that, in order for her to...

At nineteen, Natasha Trethewey felt her world crumble when her stepfather killed her mother with two bullets. With penetrating acuity and a passionate voice, Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, delves in this dazzling work—her first in prose—into the unfathomable experience of loss...

Stephen King and the angry cars, Stephen King and the obsessive mothers, Stephen King and the fans he never wanted to have, Stephen King and the worse than failed writers, Stephen King and the very fathers with ax in hand, Stephen King and the...

We are all interconnected and dependent on each other to shape the world in which we live. Yet even though technology has allowed us to digitally share our lives with more people than ever, the result has been a growing pattern of personal isolation,...

This is the best introductory book you will find on the Enneagram. Wagner's guide is a clear and concise introduction to the Enneagram, useful for personal exploration and as a teaching ID for workshop presenters and counselors.This comprehensive book with charts, exercises, and bullet...

David Wolfheart is an author, lecturer and mentor specialising in the world of runes. Along his path of spiritual development he felt a small emptiness. His purpose was to be able to help personal development through energy work and meditation with the runes. His...

Until recently, we would not have even understood the meaning of these kinds of questions. But today, when the unstoppable globalization that homogenizes everything has sparked as a reaction the vindication of aggrieved indigenisms, no cultural debate is hotter and more delicate than that...

He who asks "what are you laughing at?" doesn't usually wait for a response: he wants someone to stop laughing. Laughter is language and, like words, it can be polite, false, friendly, biting, insulting and discriminating. Although education tries to discipline it and indicate...

We are made of time, inhabited by multiple and heterogeneous times that intersect, interfere, intermingle... Politics, according to Zenia Yébenes, has to account for this. Memory, understood as the inscription and transmission of different rhythms of life time and matter, is constituted as a...

A young couple with a daughter settles in a town in the interior of Spain that languishes next to a swamp among the remains of their dreams: a dismantled nuclear power plant, unfinished housing estates, faded advertisements for a city of leisure that never...