Non Fiction

Do you unlock your cell phone using your fingerprint or with facial recognition? Do you shop using your bank card on the Internet or with contactless technology in stores? Do you ever wonder what it means that some messaging platforms encrypt your messages end-to-end?...

Yony Leyser developed the idea for Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution during a tour with a group of queer artists. Years later, the knowledge gained would be translated into the acclaimed documentary project of which this book offers an English translation for the...

In the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, a misanthropic and pessimistic thinker reviled for his bitter invective, the reader will not find candid thoughts which peacefully accompany the passing of days. However, he will be mistaken if he looks for in the author only a...

In this book the reader will find the keys to understand what philosophy is and the meaning it has in our lives. Various philosophical approaches, as well as their topics, are broken down and explained in a clear and entertaining way to understand that...

In a series of 28 brief arguments, Blair deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women’s bodies and instead directs the focus on men’s lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies. Highly readable, accessible, funny, and unflinching,...

Recent studies into the minds of canines show that they have a rich social intelligence and a physical and vocal language as complex and subtle as our own. In this fun and fascinating guide, world-renowned trainer Victoria Stilwell explores the inner world of dogs....

Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement and innovation in art, science, technology, business, sports, and virtually every activity. It has fueled human progress on a global level, but it equally is the source of profound personal satisfaction for individual creators. Yet the...

Based on John Donne's famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his "ideal library" by inviting us to read—and reread—more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can arouse the reader's curiosity and encourage them to read the work from which it came,...

In this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism—for the fundamental importance of the liberal arts and against the damage caused by their neglect. Inspired by the reflections of...

Filled with amazing stories, step-by-step exercises, and thought-provoking discussions, Bark, Neigh, Meow shows how animal companions help you transform your life and fulfill your purpose. Animal intuition expert Lynn McKenzie is the perfect guide to creating meaningful connections with your beloved animals. You'll find greater passion,...

OK--- The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An...

Why, for what and how does a journalist write? What is his vocation made of and what gives it meaning in these times? Works Zone brings together columns, conferences and essays that the Argentinean Leila Guerriero put together around these questions and that, published...

Would you like to understand your cat? Know how their brain works to achieve an unbreakable friendship? Do you think that your cat is not one hundred per cent happy, but you don't know exactly what could be failing? Have you ever thought about...

Drugs with which to treat diseases, venoms to hunt and kill, narcotics, aromas, materials, dyes... Nature contains an abundance of all of this be relatively familiar to the reader, such as penicillin, morphine, rubber or cocaine, and others will not, although that does not...

The plant world is fascinating. Approaching the study of botany is something truly magical and is loaded with symbolic connotations, many of which have been maintained to this day through time. On occasions, these mystical-fantastic narratives keep within them the atavism of ancestral or...

Who doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the...

Our memories of infancy and childhood among the old photographs that are at home, classic films or video clips, are entering the world of fashion. It is looking with a certain benevolence at who used to dress in a strange way. To look at...

What if life isn't just a part of the universe? What if it determines the very structure of the universe itself? The theory that blew your mind in Biocentrism and Beyond Biocentrism is back, with brand-new research revealing the startling truth about our existence. What is consciousness? Why...

The idea of a trained cat is a contradiction in terms, isn't it? Naturally solitary, wary, easily threatened by newcomers, they are attached to place rather than people, and much of their 'antisocial' behavior arises in situations where that attachment is threatened. But, as...

Only by putting the climate crisis at the center can the illustrated project The legacy of the Enlightenment is in crisis be renewed. His blind trust in reason and technology is naive in the face of the ecological emergency we are experiencing. Faced with...