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Los DaltonStep into the thrilling true story of the last great band of outlaws, the brothers who became one of the most famous and feared families of the Wild West. In the 1890s, the Daltons, initially promising young men, became notorious outlaws, driven by ambition...
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Celia GámezFrom the vibrant streets of Buenos Aires to the most emblematic stages of Spain, Celia Gámez lived a life worthy of being told. This biography takes us in the footsteps of the undisputed queen of the Spanish musical revue, a woman whose talent and...
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Tres reinasThe world is a chessboard on which the pieces of the British monarchy play an essential role. Within that framework, three women have dominated the scene in a preponderant way. Elizabeth II, the queen that she was, was so by the random movement of...
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La era del sobrepensamiento mágicoFrom Amanda Montell comes a work that combines cultural criticism with personal narrative, exploring our cognitive biases and the power, drawbacks, and highlights of magical thinking. Montell directs her attention to the inner workings and biases of the human mind. "Magical thinking" is defined...
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Mago. La vida y la época de Nikola TeslaNikola 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 íntimosMarta 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 colinaThe 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 GastronomíaThe 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 mundoThis 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. 1914-1920This 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, nosotrosThis 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 EspañaAMÉRICO 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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Las firmas de Napoleón, Stalin, Hitler, Elvis... y otras historias de la grafologíaDid 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 HitlerAdolf 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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La mujer que rompió los códigosThis 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 StonesCould 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 MagdalenaWas 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 allíOn 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 RatzingerJoseph 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)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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