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Nikolái GógolThis biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and...
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La cautiva de la AlhambraTaking advantage of emir Muhammad V´s overthrow, a group of North African warriors of the Sultan of Granada mug and kidnap a family of millers on the hills of Sierra de Cordoba. Fadrique, the miller´s son, who professes as Franciscan at the Monastery of...
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La esposa joven (Compactos)A scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family. The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family’s villa,...
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Juegos mentales para niños listosWith over 100 brain games to play against the clock, this book is the best way to exercise your mind. You'll find sudoku, mazes, word ladders, naval battles, minesweepers, and memory challenges. It's time to put your brain to the test!
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Juegos geniales para niños listosGetting bored is impossible with this book in your hands: it is the definitive game book. It contains more than 100 games with which to challenge the neurons of the smartest children, from naval battles where strategy is everything to sudoku puzzles or math...
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Lo quiero!Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful―yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others,...
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La metamorfosis (Obelisco)The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), first published in 1915, is one of the fundamental works of 20th century fiction. In this short novel, Franz Kafka tells us the story of Gregorio Samsa, who one day wakes up transformed into an insect.
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La especie desbocadaThe Runaway Species is a deep dive into the creative mind, a celebration of the human spirit, and a vision of how we can improve our future by understanding and embracing our ability to innovate. David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt seek to answer the...
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El nuevo BarnumThis book collects the articles that Alessandro Baricco has published in various journalistic media in the last twenty years. The title refers to the famous businessman PT Barnum, creator of the show based on "geeks" phenomena, since Baricco approaches contemporary culture as if it...
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La inteligencia de los bosquesAnyone who has visited a forest will have been overwhelmed by the sounds and smells that it emits. Discover, from the hand of Enrique García, engineer and naturalist expert in forests, what there is beyond magnificent trees, science and incredible stories from the first...
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Pequeños cuerpos de aguaHome is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans.Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through...
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La directora de orquestaWilly Wolters dreams of conducting an internationally renowned orchestra, although there is a slight downside: Willy is a woman. In 1926, few have seen a woman conducting an orchestra and conservatories rarely admit them, unless she is studying one of the instruments considered "feminine."...
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La amante de RembrandtIt is a warm day in July 1650. A woman returns from the market on a country road outside of Ransdorp. Her name is Geertje Dircx. Unexpectedly, a carriage approaches her, and two bailiffs get out of it and arrest her. The next twelve...
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Cómo escribir una buena historiaThis book is based on a compelling idea: we can all be writers. Obviously, to get to work, we must develop our skills of observation, reading, dedication, and follow, step by step, certain teachings of great passionate writers who have preceded us. To the...
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Sobre la obligación políticaThis stimulating collection of lectures by the late Judith Shklar on political obligation is paired with a scholarly introduction that offers an overview of her life, illuminates the connections among her teaching, research, and publications, and explains why her lectures still resonate with us...
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El mito de las generacionesMillennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z—we like to define people by when they were born, but an acclaimed social researcher explains why we shouldn't. Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the...
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Agua. Una biografíaWriting with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti —honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford— shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris,...
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La madre del ingenioAn illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, and historyIt all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the 1970s that...
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Un mundo mejor para nuestros hijosOn January 20, 2009, after one of the most participatory elections in American history, Barack Obama became the nation's 44th president and the first African-American to reach the White House. In all that time, eight years of intense mandate, Obama, who received the Nobel...
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Chernóbil 01:23:40Andrew Leatherbarrow, driven by an insatiable curiosity, brings together in this book all the aspects to understand what happened, what it meant and what Chernobyl means today: the technical details, clearly explained; human stories, through the biographies of its protagonists and a multitude of...
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