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Cities, life, writing. A seductive book, halfway between the chronicle, the autobiography and the narrative. This is a book about cities, about lived experiences, about writing and literature. The common thread that sews these texts is the trip through cities that have been relevant...

This is a book about the body. A body that loves and is loved. A body that is also abused, violated through sex and childbirth, abortion and blood, filth.Non-artistic materials in the hands of a painter who writes, a writer who watches. The eel...

The most overtly political novel Nabokov ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor...

Body alignment expert Lauren Roxburgh believes that problems can be solved by first unlocking the foundation of your mental and physical health: the pelvic floor. Located at the root of our pelvis, it determines how firm our core is, how we handle stress, and...

Illustrated book that explains through a girl, the experience of prolonged breastfeeding and shared breastfeeding.

In our biblical interpretations we hardly ever side with the voices that were silenced and excluded from the biblical text itself.This book dares to give voice to these marginal groups. To achieve this goal, Manuel Villalobos has selected texts from the pastorals dealing with...

One of the most illustrious and influential rabbis in the world confronts a crucial issue in the philosophy and religion of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three lectures, which he originally gave at the "Raymond Fred West Memorial Lectures"...

For some decades now, the development of cybernetic machines has brought with it the elimination of millions of jobs in the areas of production and services, to the point that many economists estimate that there will never be a return to a full-employment society....

This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep....

How has digitization affected traditional media? What can be done about the organizational culture to promote the digital transformation of the newsroom? Many thought that digital journalism was a passing fad. But that wasn´t the case. Then came the crisis and there was no...

Sun Yat-sen's shadow is a Chinese box. A story within another story, within a new and different one... In its pages we will discover the life of Sun Yixian or Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the man who transformed the Chinese empire into a republic. He...

With an attentive look and firm pulse, Villoro unfolds into a journalist, passerby, pen buyer, nostalgic adult, responsible father, emergency brigade, and offers us a testimony of the many experiences that the city holds for each and every one of its members. Whether from...

What species is really hiding behind most of the cinnamon we consume? Did you know that the Antarctic carnation is capable of withstanding temperatures below fifty degrees Celsius or that some mosses are found in volcanoes with temperatures above sixty? Or even that, behind...

This is a series of daily reflections, one for every day of the year, on spirituality and the spiritual path. They help concentrate the attention during the day on a relevant subject.

When a wolf is locked up, it begins to spin around in its cage, his defense mechanisms are activated, his natural cunning sharpens in order to escape… and finally, he howls. If a documentary zoologist is confined, he will immediately investigate the reason for...

Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore’s defense of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein’s reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

I was our mother's despair. But when Dad gave me the keys to his library, my heart filled with joy. In the middle of all those books! I couldn't wait to read them all!" At 42 years old, and at a time close to...

Instead of allowing ourselves to embrace our hurt, we numb it and dismiss it so that we never have to face it. Written with warm compassion and profound wisdom, Tears to Triumph offers us a powerful way forward through the pain, to a deeper awareness of...

Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically...

Did you know that Frank Sinatra claimed the piece "Something"- composed by George Harrison - to be the best love song ever written? That the Beatles were the first group to lead the conquest of the world by British music? That Quino, the creator...