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InstituciónThis 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....
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DesenmascaradosWhen Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets of Portland by antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the...
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Vida escaparateTo see or to be seen? That is the question this book poses. Before seeing a monument, tasting a delicacy or hugging our beloved ones, we need to immortalize them in that great Showcase Life that social networks are. A lifestyle rooted in our...
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La gran conspiración de QanonQAnon, Pizzagate, Plandemic, Agartha,... are some of the conspiracies that have been appearing on the social networks in recent years. This work analyzes and explains them in all their dimensions, revealing all the nuances of one of the most surprising social phenomena of the...
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La virtud de pensarIn a troubled world of climate emergencies, addictive technologies, radical politics, cultural conflicts, vertiginous consumption and news that confuses us, we need to stop and think. This book tells us about a great forgotten virtue, the virtue of thinking. It directly addresses what it...
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No le tememos al aguaIn 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who...
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Nuestros cuerpos, sus batallasIn Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb shares about the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she’s never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars—the “bang-bang” war and the story of how the people...
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PsicopolíticaByung-Chul Han continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. Han elaborates a framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology...
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AngrynomicsWhy are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer in the world, most of us feel...
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La esquina (Pocket)The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a...
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Se vende cuerpoThe great advances in medicine and surgery offer the possibility of saving lives and considerably improving the quality thanks to organ transplantation. Today, there are many more patients waiting for a transplant than there are donors. This means that, in many societies, each deceased...
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Etica de la ecología integralIn this work, the author presents the dimensions of the environmental challenge posed to humanity, and reviews the solutions that have been adopted since the ecological alarm was triggered. The Industrial Revolution brought with it a considerable development of economic production and a notable...
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Sin marcas visiblesIn No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don’t know we’re seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths―that if things were bad enough,...
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Lo que estábamos buscandoBaricco reflects on the pandemic: beyond the health figures a mythical creature emerges that expresses fear and changes... Baricco understands the pandemic as something more than a health emergency: as a mythical creature, a collective construction (very real: there is no denial here) with...
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MoneylandFrom ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Once upon a time, if an official...
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Salud emocional en tiempos de crisisThis work tries to bring us closer to understanding what is happening to us on a psychological level as protagonists of a crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond fear, the emotions that move in a crisis like this span a broader spectrum. What...
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La sociedad paliativaIn this essay, Byung-Chul Han criticizes how the excess positivity of happiness forces us to negate any glimpse of pain and subjects us to a state of permanent anesthesia.Today we live in a society that has developed a phobia of pain, in which there...
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Lecciones de una pandemiaIdeas to face planetary health challenges...What have we done wrong during the covid-19 pandemic and how should we organize ourselves to respond to the next emergency that threatens the health of humanity? Salvador Macip is convinced that we have the resources to do it,...
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El capital sexual en la modernidad tardíaEva Illouz and Dana Kaplan offer an interesting sociological analysis of sexualities as a new form of inequality under neoliberal capitalism. Given the increasing commercialization of sex and sexual identities, Eva Illouz and Dana Kaplan use the idea of sexual capital as a prism...
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Como un ladrón en pleno díaTechno-scientific progress is utterly transforming our world--changing it beyond recognition. Philosopher Slavoj Z?iz?ek looks at the world of Big Tech, revealing how we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into...
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