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Un año en Sand CountyAldo Leopold is one of the mythical figures of contemporary environmentalism. From that time when he was very young, a wolf died in his arms - and he understood that the disappearance of the wild will bring the end of our world - until...
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Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjauladoHere is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right....
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Hildegarda de Bingen (New Edition)The biography of this extraordinary woman written by Christian Feldmann, carried out with good historical knowledge and pulsating style, dares to look back to the distant 12th century, making evident the relevance of this figure. She called the archbishop of Cologne a bird of...
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San Ignacio de LoyolaA history review always ends up throwing up a handful of proper names that have influenced its own course, that of St. Ignatius of Loyola is undoubtedly one of them. We owe the founding of the Society of Jesus to him, whose intellectual and...
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Hernán Cortés (Almuzara)Ramón Tamames discusses Hernán Cortés with beautiful writing in this dazzling scenario. The story is surrounded by contemporary protagonists, such as Moctezuma, Malinche, Cuauhtémoc, Carlos V, Father Las Casas, Governor Velázquez, Pizarro, Alvarado, Sandoval, Bernardino de Sahagún, Vasco de Quiroga and many other characters...
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La transmisión del saborWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. What...
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La llamada / Un retratoThis is a true story, full of edges and shadows, about the human condition. The protagonist is Silvia Labayru, an Argentine woman kidnapped in 1976, during the military dictatorship in her country, due to her membership in the Montoneros organization. She was nineteen years...
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Animales metafísicosOxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, vehemently opposes it,...
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Unos meses de mi vidaBetween the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Michel Houellebecq became the center of two controversies. On the one hand, the philosopher Michel Onfray did an interview with him: in it the author expressed opinions about the Islamization of Europe and the...
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Cartas escogidas (1888-1922)Marcel Proust was, from his earliest youth until his death in 1922, a meticulous and prolific correspondent: he wrote to relatives, family, friends, defenders of his work and even his biggest detractors. In the thousands of letters he sent, in which the register and...
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Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe is one of the saddest and most enigmatic figures in world literature. He made his living as a poet, critic, editor, and journalist, and is recognized as one of the universal masters of the short story. He was a pioneer in...
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DictadoresFear and violence are not enough for any dictator to govern: these strategies may be essential to achieve power and even to maintain it for a time, but they are not usually effective in the long term. The paradox of the modern dictator is...
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ConfesiónIn 1879 Tolstoy came to believe that his achievements and existence were meaningless, plunging him into a state of extreme pain and restlessness that seemed to lead him fatally towards suicide. Written in a vital period that marks a change in his aesthetic trajectory...
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No me acuerdo de nadaNora Ephron is a genre unto herself. Renowned for her scathing and intelligent wit, her insightful and comedic analyzes of the female experience, and her ability to detect the absurdities of modern life, she is one of America's most beloved writers and filmmakers, and...
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Esa pieza que no encajaA conversation about creativity and talent with the leader of Love of Lesbian. Thousands of people have sung Love of Lesbian songs in Spain and Latin America, but how did those songs come about? On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the formation of the band,...
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Faith Of The ButterflyFaith of the Butterfly is Susannah’s two-year journey of reinvention and overcoming the pains of her past while, in her own words, deciding to be "done with boxes." It’s a story that begins with that first day in Sephora, and follows the transition from her...
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The Happiness of Running UphillMark's life is like one big sunny plain. A well-paying stockbroker job, a beautiful London home, a placid and long-lasting relationship with Susan, and the prospect of a career downhill. His is a perfectly planned life. He doesn't remember a single uphill step, not...
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Diarios. A ratos perdidos 5 y 6Third and last volume of Rafael Chirbes' essential diaries, the culmination of a literary event... Here are the annotations from various notebooks written between 2007 and 2015, the period in which he published the two novels that mark the culmination of his literary career...
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Pablo Picasso. Libro de las conversaciones50 years after his death, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) continues to be a benchmark, a synonym for Art. Eugenio d'Ors ended his essay on Goya with these words: "Any matter seems clear, until the day it is given a little study." This is probably what...
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The Uncaged SkyOn September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in...
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