Present Chronicles

Do you have the makings of an unhappiness expert? With the techniques in this book, you can raise yourself to the genius level. A word of warning, however. Along the way you may begin to ask yourself, "How did I manage to turn myself...

Dear reader, do not be discouraged. A magnificent future awaits us, a clarifying solution (hybridization of clear solution and final solution) in which we can slide safely without pain, without bloodshed and in complete comfort. / Imagínate, dice un antropólogo a su colega, se...

It is a chronicle of the most relevant events that occurred during the PP governments in Spain that ran from 1996 to 2004. The author reviews this period with its light and shadow, a period that produced the most positive socio-economic balance of democracy....

They belong to the baby boom generation; they are over fifty years old. They are people who feel as if they’re filled with health, strength, and enthusiasm to develop multiple pending projects, while taking care not to lose their quality of life. They are...

The author reviews her well-known theories of redistribution and recognition, and introduces "representation" as a third "political" dimension of justice. Dialogue with thinkers such as Habermas, Rawls, Foucault or Arendt envisages a post-Westphalian political space that embraces transnational solidarity, and cross-border emancipatory projects. /...

Gilles Lipovetsky addresses an issue from two angles. The first is erotic seduction, from the mechanisms of courtship to using the internet to find a partner. The second is broader: in our current society, the techniques of seduction are also applied in domains that...

This book shows the paradigmatic case of populism in contemporary Islam that represents what is known as religious populism. A populism which is built not so much on the doctrine of Islam as on a new model centered on the Islamic ideology and the...

Emilio Sánchez lived in Bahrain for two years. When he returned to Spain and finished writing this book, he knew that he could no longer return there because journalists are not welcome in a country that ranks 167th out of 180 in the press...

The last era of viral feminism or debates around gender and inequality have transformed masculinity and its models. In parallel, the proliferation of gender stories questions our ideas about desire: what are we talking about when we talk about heterosexuality? How is our language...

As a pandemic sweeps the planet, Slavoj Zizek reveals its deeper meaning. We live in a moment when the greatest act of love is to stay distant from those we care about. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in spending can conjure up trillions....

This vigorous book by Michel Onfray exposes his libertarian political ideology. From his childhood and adolescence experiences in the cheese factory of his hometown, he develops the image of a capitalist society. He then exposes the principles of his social utopia on the basis...

My Seditious Heart collects two-decades of work from when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay, opening space for justice, rights, and freedoms in hostile environment. Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit marked by compassion, clarity, and...

How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don’t march fully-formed into government; they creep. Proposing alternative, global answers to the pressing political questions of our time, Temelkuran explores the insidious idea of ‘real people’....

The biologist Alvaro Luna takes us on a journey through our laminated planet. Plastic pollution has become an environmental problem of global dimensions and it is necessary to solve it as soon as possible. / ¿Sabes quién es el erizo McFlurry? ¿O que el...

During the night of the September 26th, 2015 in Iguala, Mexico, hundreds of students were victims of police aggression and were attacked by criminals. What came after that it is considered one of the biggest acts of modern brutality. In memory of the 43...

These are texts of extraordinary lucidity, some of which received the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award. They reveal the curiosity of the chronicler and the ability of a great writer that sees beyond the apparent, to a glimpse of the world to come. /...

Douglas Murray explores the issues behind the continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks and a global refugee crisis. He addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel’s U-turn on migration, and the fixation on guilt. A book with visions for...

Violence against women has been forced into silence. Not because of their reluctance to speak, but because of institutional imposition. The #Cuéntalo movement (a clear echo of the #MeToo hashtag) builds a collective memory of aggressions. Three million women participated in just two weeks....

In this book the author traces the path of the digital insurrection. It is not a mere technological revolution, but the collapse of the paradigms of twentieth century. In just over three decades, computers, smartphones and other devices, have become essential and have changed...

The Mediterranean is the scene of two shameful situations: the humanitarian crisis of the drifting immigrants and the legal harassment suffered by the NGOs that try to rescue them. Sandro Veronesi climbs aboard one of the rescue boats to talk with activists. / El...