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De la luz y de las sombras: GoyaIn the work Of the Light and the Shadows: GOYA, its author, Daniel José Carrasco de Jaime, embarks on an investigation in which we are presented with a different way of understanding art. As an expert in Goya, these pages constitute a true and...
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Ser(t) arquitectoThis is the biography of Josep Lluís Sert, a Spanish architect with international acclaim. The book tells how he went to university in a Rolls Royce with a chauffeur, but developed a social conscience that he revealed in his architecture. The civil war and...
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Miguel Angel, escultor de sueñosThis is the updated biography of one of the great artists of our history who reached to transcend his time, Miguel Ángel Buonarroti. A man who triumphed in his time, who was revered by pope, princes and cardinals. / Hay figuras que atraviesan los...
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Koba el temibleKoba the Fearful is a memoir, a chronicle, a meditation on Stalin and his legacy; a political book while remaining personal. It focuses on an important weak point of twentieth-century thought: the tolerance of Western intellectuals to communism. Between the personal start and the...
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Ibn Arabi. El maestro sublimeLifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by...
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Opus Gelber. Retrato de un pianistaThe Argentinian Bruno Gelber is one of the best pianists of the 20th century. He started playing at three years old, and his vocation was so strong that at seven, when he contracted polio, he asked his parents to fit the piano in bed....
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En Camping-carThis is a book about a French family in the eighties, vacationing in a motorhome through Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Morocco... A personal story about the author in his youth. It’s about his childhood as a lost paradise; a tribute from Ivan Jablonka to...
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Un día en la vida de un editorThis book starts with the meticulous description of a day in the life of an editor. And, from there, a complete journey through the secrets of the publishing sector and the evolution and the entrails of Anagrama since founded in 1969 until the present....
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Tesla, inventor de la modernidadNikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind. Nikola Tesla, uno de los...
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Honrar al cuerpoThis book is the autobiography of Alexander Lowen, creator of the therapeutic system known as Bioenergetics, and author of over a dozen books. The extraordinary experience in his rich life, the depth of his knowledge, and his sense of humor make this reading a...
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Informe del interiorHaving recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. It’s an intellectual journey as he inches his way...
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Nelson Mandela - (1918-2013)The biography of Nelson Mandela, one of the great leaders of our time, an icon mainly because of his long struggle against apartheid, is still controversial. His efforts to bring the democracy to South Africa were not totally compensated during the four years he...
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Mick JaggerMick Jagger, in his five decades at the forefront of the Rolling Stones, has been viewed as the most arrogant and narcissistic of all superstars; with a sexual appetite and whose reckless--and alleged--drug use sparked the most famous scandal in the history of rock...
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Mientras llega la felicidadJuan Marse is one of the best Spanish writers of the late 20th Century. His books are real classics of our contemporary age like: Ultimas tardes con Teresa, Si te dicen que caí, Un día volveré, El embrujo de Shanghai o Rabos de lagartija....
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El perfeccionista en la cocinaJulian Barnes, one of the most famous contemporary English writers, tells an exquisite story about his funny experiences and adventures among pans, his successes and defeats. This is a pleasant book cooked with clever humor and it is an essential reading for those who...
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La caídaThe story begins with a devastating quote: «Tito has a cerebral palsy». The Fall tells the fight on the disease of his son Tito and the attempts of a father to communicate with him and to make him walk. This is an emotional literary...
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Una mariposa en la máquina de escribirThis is a story about John Kennedy Toole, an author of a very special novel in 20th century American literature: A Confederacy of Dunces. Cory Maclauchlin has written the biography that this genius writer deserves, going deep into the details of his life, constructing...
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A los actoresIn this book you will find a constellation of stars: Spanish movie stars such as Ángela Molina, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Coronado, Ana Belén, Eduardo Noriega and Alfredo Landa. Spanish film director Gutiérrez Aragón describes the actors that he has worked with in his...
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El anzuelo del diabloA strong and revealing essay that represents a literary milestone, putting Leslie Jamison on the same level as Susan Sontag and Joan Didion. The author writes about her own experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students...
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Bernardo de GálvezThe Biography of one of the great unknowns of history, Bernardo de Galvez. He marched on the right side of George Washington on the Independence Day of the United States in 1776, in recognition of his work and support for the American cause. Barack...
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