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El pensamiento de MileiIf there is one word that characterizes Javier Milei's political thought and action, it is liberal, although his perspective encompasses variants that include libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism and minarchism. Political analysts have also labeled him as paleolibertarian or liberal populist, reflecting the complexity of his ideas...
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Y vimos cambiar las estacionesAs ice melts and sea levels rise, threatening human existence as we know it, climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. Philip Kitcher and Evelyn F. Keller, two of today's most renowned scientists, could have written...
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Séptimo: No robarásThis essay offers an insightful reflection on the market's origins in the West, highlighting its role from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age as a collective identity and autonomous value judge. Paolo Prodi argues that the mercantile system, often misunderstood, historically shaped the...
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Los silencios de LetiziaWhat happened to Queen Letizia on the day of Princess Leonor's swearing in of the Constitution? Did she leave Marivent in August 2013, destination unknown, to meet someone? This book is the chronicle of what has happened to Jaime Peñafiel after the publication of...
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Solteros por naturalezaAll too often society issues dire warnings about the risks of living single. But is finding a spouse or romantic partner really a requirement for a full life? In Single at Heart, Bella DePaulo speaks on behalf of the millions of people across the...
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El niño de HollywoodAs a boy, Miguel Angel Tobar fled to a small town in El Salvador torn apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen in Los Angeles, he faced discrimination and beatings by joining a gang, MS-13. By the time the US...
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Pedro Sánchez y el síndrome de NarcisoSigns and traits converge in Pedro Sánchez's political personality that suggest a narcissistic syndrome, which influences and conditions his particular style of governance. While narcissism in its proper measure can strengthen personal self-esteem, in excess it can become detrimental. The author of this essay...
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El espíritu de la esperanzaWars, mass migrations, attacks, climate catastrophes, crises and pandemics: very diverse apocalyptic scenarios confront us with an imminent threat of collapse and extinction. And as we go from catastrophe to catastrophe, our true life is suffocated and reduced to pure survival. However, Hope opens...
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Un día en la vida de Abed SalamaOn February 16, 2012, an accident occurred involving a school bus that was transporting a group of children on a field trip. A tragic event. But the place where it happened added a Kafkaesque dimension to the tragedy, an unbearable degree of unreason. The...
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No soy un robotWe are already digital beings. We have gone from the Gutenberg galaxy to the digital galaxy. How does it affect our perception of reality? What is the role of books and reading in this new era? These pages show mobile devices, selfies and Twitter,...
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Demasiado tarde para despertarThe most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament. We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only...
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Disinformed: A History of Humanity's Search for the TruthIn this gripping narrative, Dr. Daniel William Lawrence explores humanity's troubled relationship with truth, from the propaganda tactics of King Sargon of Akkadia to the sophistication of present day hyper-targeted political advertising on social media. Dr. Lawrence shows how rhetoric is not just a...
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PertenenciaWe live in enormously polarized times. From politics to race, religion, gender, and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were “downright evil.” In 2019, hate crimes reached a ten-year high in...
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La venganza del campoThe revenge of the countryside is already here. Food prices are rising sharply and the forgotten food crises are threatening to reappear. Why is it that yesterday there was plenty of food and today there seems to be a shortage? Disdain for the countryside...
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Cómo resolver problemas públicosThe challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful...
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Necesidad de una política de la TierraThis book addresses a problem that is in the international spotlight: the climate change crisis and the devastating consequences it is having on our planet. The world is heading towards a new energy order, and that requires thinking about the 21st century from the...
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El fin del "Homo sovieticus"With the sole help of a tape recorder and a pen, Svetlana Aleksievich strives to keep alive the memory of the tragedy that was the USSR, to tell the micro-stories of a great utopia. Communism proposed the folly of transforming the old man, the...
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Letizia y yoDiscover Queen Letizia's secrets that could shake the stability of her marriage. Does Queen Letizia harbor a dark, hidden side? Is she playing a good role as mother to the heir to the throne, Princess Leonor? Is this really a love story of our...
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Nature, Culture and InequalityA comparative and historical perspective, a synthesis of his research on economic inequalities, this accurate text by Thomas Piketty analyzes issues such as education, inheritance, taxation and the persistent gender gap, while stressing the need to drastically reduce the North-South imbalances as a condition...
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Eleanor, Apprentice QueenDoes Leonor, Princess of Asturias, need defense or advice? To overprotect her, beyond the protection of Justice and her parents, would be to patronize her. "Condescend" is an inadequate verb for those who descend from kings. Juan de Mariana was the distinguished historian of...
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