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  • Cartas
    Cartas
    Oliver Sacks in his letters: a riot of talent, wit, curiosity, empathy, and passion. Sacks's correspondence evokes traumatic episodes from his childhood, discusses his hobbies—weightlifting and motorcycles—his travels, his scientific research into the mysteries of the brain, the upheavals of his private life, and...
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  • Gratitud
    Gratitud
    No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a...
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  • Hannah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt
    This new biography, the first since 1982 based on archival research, explores Hannah Arendt’s multifaceted life and enduring influence. It offers a rich portrait of her as a thinker, activist, and provocateur, revealing why she remains a singular intellectual force of the twentieth century.
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  • Grita
    Grita
    Saviano pays tribute to exemplary people who have stood up to injustice and tyranny. What do Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Émile Zola, Martin Luther King and Anna Politkovskaya have in common? They all fought against injustice, each with their own tools. They raised their voices...
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  • Los fracasados de la aventura
    Los fracasados de la aventura
    A story of the foolish adventurers, the inept pioneers, the incautious naturalists, the wild explorers, the obtuse navigators, the reckless pilots, and the brainless mountaineers...
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  • El español que enamoró al mundo. Una vida de Julio Iglesias
    El español que enamoró al mundo. Una vida de Julio Iglesias
    An image of seduction, success, wealth, and fame, Julio Iglesias has achieved global celebrity like no other Spaniard—except for Dalí and Picasso—in modern times. His career, however, has been marked by contradictions: with more popular impact than approval from cultural elites, Iglesias has faced...
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  • Dickinson y las violetas
    Dickinson y las violetas
    Author of 1,789 poems, Emily Dickinson is considered one of the pillars of modern American literature and one of the best poets in universal literature. Her work denotes an extraordinary ability to observe the world around her, from the subtle buzzing of a bee...
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  • Björk. Una constante mutación
    Björk. Una constante mutación
    Our book presents a collection of essays on the life and work of the Icelandic artist, composed of articles and interviews from national and international media and from different periods. A work that serves both for beginners and fans, to frame and amplify knowledge...
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  • Fiesta bajo las bombas
    Fiesta bajo las bombas
    Elias Canetti exiled himself to the United Kingdom in 1939 with his wife, Veza, both of Jewish origin, to escape the Nazi yoke. They lived through World War II in London and the countryside, where they were evacuated when German bombings hit the city....
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  • Dos o tres cosas que tengo claras
    Dos o tres cosas que tengo claras
    After the extraordinary Bastard, hailed as a masterpiece, Dorothy Allison returns as one of the most passionate and talented writers of her generation. And she succeeds with a work that links together, one after another, lyrical, cruel and sublime, a chain of hard-hitting truths:...
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  • La historia de un muro
    La historia de un muro
    Nasser Abu Srour, imprisoned in Israel since 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment, writes a testimony about his life and suffering. His story revolves around the "wall", symbolizing both separation and isolation as well as a source of resistance and protection. From his childhood...
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  • Eso no estaba en mi libro de Miguel de Cervantes
    Eso no estaba en mi libro de Miguel de Cervantes
    Who was Miguel de Cervantes really? A literary genius or an adventurer more interested in trade than in letters? Why was he a late writer? Was his goal to enter the court? This book challenges the classic version of the author of Don Quixote,...
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  • Memorias de caza de un maestro armero
    Memorias de caza de un maestro armero
    José Luis Varona, a master gunsmith, takes us into his world of responsible hunting, nature, and respect for the environment. Through his narrative, he immerses us in the majesty of the Spanish mountains, emphasizing the importance of ecosystem conservation and respect for animal life....
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  • Taylor Swift. Un libro para Swifties
    Taylor Swift. Un libro para Swifties
    A global phenomenon that appeals across generations, recounted in an informative book, enhanced by carefully selected photographs and a large-format poster. Much more than a music superstar, Taylor Swift is a true cultural phenomenon, evolving from a young country promise to a global pop...
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  • Carta al padre (Obelisco)
    Carta al padre (Obelisco)
    Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in...
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  • Houdini
    Houdini
    Houdini was a complete artist and an inexhaustible innovator. In addition to his spectacular escapes, he mastered the art of stage illusionism to perfection: he was a great propagandist and a master of publicity and knew how to take advantage of the emerging power...
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  • Seremos jaguares
    Seremos jaguares
    Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left...
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  • Vida y maravillas
    Vida y maravillas
    A child diagnosed with tuberculosis spends a long time in bed, where his family cares for him and entertains him with stories and books. From this experience, the child, who will become writer and filmmaker Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, begins his fascination with fiction. In...
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  • Maimónides
    Maimónides
    Moses ben Maimon, also known as Rambam or Maimonides (1138-1204), is a central figure in the history of philosophy and Judaism. His influence endures not only in medieval Jewish thought but also in Christian scholasticism and Islamic thought. This book offers a comprehensive overview...
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  • Thoreau, yogui del bosque
    Thoreau, yogui del bosque
    In 1844, a 28-year-old Harvard graduate decided to spend two years in the woods, on the edge of a pond called Walden, in the heart of Massachusetts, with Homer and the Bhagavad Gita in his luggage. He built a cabin, walked, smelled, contemplated, meditated,...
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