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La liebre con ojos de ámbarMore than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which...
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La tía MameA ten-year-old boy is orphaned in the unedifying America of the 1920s and is placed under the control of an eccentric lady, obsessed with being à la page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Together with her, he will spend the next thirty years in...
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La utilidad de lo inútil. ManifiestoIn 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...
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LA VUELTA AL MUNDO EN OCHENTA JUEGOSWhere should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and...
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Las pequeñas virtudesIn this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes...
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Los comienzos del jazzEarly Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists...
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Los hombres no son islasBased 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,...
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Lucerna y AlbertWritten in 1857 and 1858, these two stories are a tribute to Tolstoy's passion for music and are inspired by episodes from his life. In "Lucerne" he offers evocative descriptions of the city by the lake and recreates in first person the conflicts of...
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MELANCOLIA DE LA RESISTENCIATragicomic and melancholic, this novel presents us with a leaden and totalitarian world, dominated by blind and impersonal forces. A bleak human landscape in which intelligence is nullified by brute force and violence, and in which chaos inevitably sweeps away characters who, between conformity...
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Momentos estelares de la humanidadThis is probably Stefan Zweig's most famous book. In it he brings to its peak the art of historical and literary miniature. Very varied are the events that he brings together under the title of "Stellar Moments": the decline of the Eastern empire, in...
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Novela de ajedrezWith no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the...
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Obligación impuesta y WondrakIn these two pacifist stories, Stefan Zweig condemns the horrors of the Great War that destroyed the freedom and dignity of Europe. In the first, Ferdinand, a young exile in Switzerland, resists being sent to war. In "Wondrak," Ruzena struggles to save her son...
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Papel negroWide-ranging but thematically unified, the essays address ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. Cole’s writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history...
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Para pensar mejorWe have been taught that the shortcut is not recommended, that it is a tricky resource, the lazy trick. However, for Marcus du Sautoy it is a legitimate tactic: in mathematics, the realm of strategic thinking that emulates the logic of nature, the shortcut...
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QUARESMA, DESCIFRADORFernando Pessoa's passion for the detective genre is well documented in his writings: "One of the few intellectual diversions that persists in what remains of humanity's intellectual life is the reading of detective novels. Among the inestimable and small number of happy hours that...
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Respira (Batiscafo)Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the wild coast of Western Australia. Loner by nature, he hates the quiet customs of his family, but everything changes when he becomes friends with Loonie, an impulsive and rebellious boy...
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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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TANGO SATANICOShortly after the fall of the communist regime, in a remote rural region of Hungary, battered by wind and incessant rain, a few members of a failed agricultural cooperative live a dull life in a now almost ghostly village, helplessly waiting for a miracle...
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Terra incognitaFor thousands of years, human beings ignored a large part of the planet's territories, landscapes and inhabitants, and on maps the unknown regions were called Terra incognita. Even in 1840, the seabed was a complete mystery. Thirty years later, scientists continued to defend that...
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Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)It is not by chance that I bring together in a single book these three essays on Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky. With a common purpose I try to show the three great novelists of the 19th century as prototypes because of the contrast of...
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