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  • Mago. La vida y la época de Nikola Tesla
    Mago. La vida y la época de Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to...
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  • Los íntimos
    Los íntimos
    Marta Sanz reflects on writing and the profession of a writer, with mentions of book fairs, readings from childhood and adulthood, meetings with famous writers and colleagues or her collaborations in El País. She has in her hands the reader a very free, combative...
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  • Desde esta colina
    Desde esta colina
    The Ozarks Mountains are a mythical territory in the North American imagination: a place where, since the mid-20th century, those who fled from the impositions of society, the law, money or themselves were found. Thus, in just a few decades, in that abrupt and...
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  • Grandes maestros de la historia de la Gastronomía
    Grandes maestros de la historia de la Gastronomía
    The most original history of universal gastronomy through its protagonists: from Apicius to Julia Child. Apicius, Brillat Savarin, Buddha, Carême, Julia Child, Dumas, Escoffier, Grimod, Hippocrates de Cos, Jefferson, Catherine de Medici, Montezuma, Moses, Parabere, Pardo Bazan, Parmentier, Ziryab... Great masters of the history...
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  • De un mundo a otro mundo
    De un mundo a otro mundo
    This book mixes impressions of Viennese and European life before the World War I with Zweig's personal recollections and detailed anecdotes. It chronicles the final days of Austria-Hungary under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, including the educational system and sexual morals of the...
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  • Cartas. 1914-1920
    Cartas. 1914-1920
    This volume continues the publication in Spanish of all of Franz Kafka's letters that have been preserved. Letters here are understood to mean all the letters written by Kafka throughout his life, whether postcards, telegrams or letters themselves, without excluding those of an official,...
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  • Yo, nosotros
    Yo, nosotros
    This book addresses the struggle for equality, focusing on masculinities in crisis, seeking new ways of being and living. Octavio Salazar Benítez reflects on the human being we aspire to be, free from dogmas and stereotypes. In a world marked by artificial intelligence and...
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  • Américo Castro y la historia de España
    Américo Castro y la historia de España
    AMÉRICO CASTRO AND THE HISTORY OF SPAIN is a work that rethinks the ideas of the Spanish historian and philologist Américo Castro Quesada (1885-1972) and his school, highlighting their influence on Spanish intellectual thought during the exile. The essay places Castro within a historical...
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  • Sé tu mismo (Navona)
    Sé tu mismo (Navona)
    In the mid-nineties, 18-year-old Hua Hsu was designing fanzines and exploring record stores, while Ken, obsessed with Dave Matthews and Abercrombie & Fitch, was from a long-established Japanese-American family. Despite their differences, both felt excluded by American culture. Their friendship grew through deep conversations,...
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  • Las firmas de Napoleón, Stalin, Hitler, Elvis... y otras historias de la grafología
    Las firmas de Napoleón, Stalin, Hitler, Elvis... y otras historias de la grafología
    Did you know Shakespeare's handwriting reveals his pedantry, Franco's will reflects his insecurity, and Dalí had 678 signatures? This book uses graphology to uncover the personalities of historical figures from Napoleon to Queen Letizia, including Carlos II, Felipe V, and John Lennon. Discover how...
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  • El linaje de Hitler
    El linaje de Hitler
    Adolf Hitler died in the Berlin bunker in 1945, leaving no grave or memorial. Journalist David Gardner investigated what happened to Hitler's family, burdened with a cursed surname. Gardner's research uncovers the lives of Hitler's siblings and relatives, revealing a troubled childhood marked by...
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  • Vendrán a detenerme a media noche
    Vendrán a detenerme a media noche
    A moving account of the brutal persecution of the Uyghur community in China and the author’s escape. Since 2017, the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic group in Xinjiang, have faced horrific repression under a sophisticated surveillance system. Tahir Hamut Izgil, a Uyghur poet and...
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  • La mujer que rompió los códigos
    La mujer que rompió los códigos
    This book should be the next Hidden Figures—a must-read for those interested in the era, says the Washington Post. In 1916, tycoon George Fabyan hires Elizebeth Smith, a Quaker teacher and poet, to find secret messages in Shakespeare’s plays. Her mission shifts as she...
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  • Eso no estaba en mi libro de los Rolling Stones
    Eso no estaba en mi libro de los Rolling Stones
    Could a devoted Rolling Stones fan conceive of their hometown of Dartford being considered the thieving capital of England? Did they imagine that a band branded Satanic would record a blues that rescued a church minister from destitution? In these pages we will not...
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  • Historia desconocida de María Magdalena
    Historia desconocida de María Magdalena
    Was Mary Magdalene really a repentant sinner? Was she the sister of Lazarus and Martha of Bethany, as Catholic tradition claimed? Or has her image been distorted over the centuries? This book immerses the reader in an exciting journey through the enigmas, hidden truths...
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  • Las montañas siguen allí
    Las montañas siguen allí
    On December 22, 1972, the world discovered that 16 of the 45 passengers of the Uruguayan Air Force plane, which had crashed in the Andes ten weeks earlier, remained alive. No one could escape their astonishment. Without food, enduring extreme temperatures, facing all kinds...
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  • Joseph Ratzinger
    Joseph Ratzinger
    Joseph Ratinzger was, in addition to a profound pontiff and rigorous theologian, one of the most consistent and important thinkers of the last century. This book aims, in addition to discovering the main milestones of his career, to explain to a wide audience his...
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  • Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)
    Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)
    It is not by chance that I bring together in a single book these three essays on Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky. With a common purpose I try to show the three great novelists of the 19th century as prototypes because of the contrast of...
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  • Memorial Drive. Recuerdos de una hijaMemorial Drive. Recuerdos de una hija
    Memorial Drive. Recuerdos de una hija
    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...
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  • Enseñarle a hablar a una piedraEnseñarle a hablar a una piedra
    Enseñarle a hablar a una piedra
    The great writers of nature writing are capable men and women, observing nature with a singular acuity and, then, constructing a story that allows the reader to travel to those worlds normally so foreign to our civilized everyday life. Annie Dillard, however, goes further....
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