Biography & Memoirs
Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788419036742
How to Be A Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Fear and violence are not enough for any dictator to govern: these strategies may be essential to achieve power and even to maintain it for a time, but they are not usually effective in the long term. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support, since on..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433980908
In the Dream House
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological..
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Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788491113164
Nikola Tesla
The Earth could be illuminated with free electricity and without wires! Nikola Tesla knew how. The most important inventions for the development of humanity (electricity, radar, radio, etc.) as we know it today have a forgotten father, Nikola Tesla. Discover his fascinating life through thrilling an..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441442207
Autobiography of a Yogi
One of the Top Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, Autobiography of a Yogi is one of the best-selling Eastern philosophy titles of all-time, with millions of copies published. Yogananda was the first yoga master of India whose mission brought him to live and teach in the West. His firsthand a..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788419738226
Letters II (1914-1920)
This volume continues the publication in Spanish of all of Franz Kafka's letters that have been preserved. Letters here are understood to mean all the letters written by Kafka throughout his life, whether postcards, telegrams or letters themselves, without excluding those of an official, commercial ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788419979162
Joseph Ratzinger
Joseph Ratinzger was, in addition to a profound pontiff and rigorous theologian, one of the most consistent and important thinkers of the last century. This book aims, in addition to discovering the main milestones of his career, to explain to a wide audience his main contributions. Starting from th..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433908063
The Younger Sister
Silvina Ocampo is one of the most exquisite, talented figures of literature in Spanish. The meaning behind much of her work is a mystery; similarly, very little is known about her private life. In this book, Mariana Enriquez looks intensely at the life of someone that lived with the desire to remain..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788495359667
The Little Virtues
In 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 of the loss of..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433929778
Hannah Arendt
This new biography, the first since 1982 based on archival research, explores Hannah Arendt’s multifaceted life and enduring influence. It offers a rich portrait of her as a thinker, activist, and provocateur, revealing why she remains a singular intellectual force of the twentieth century...
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Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788491115151
Dr. Hamer
In August 1978, a man killed Dirk Hamer, 19, while he was sleeping. Two months after his death, his father was diagnosed with testicular cancer. It could have been a normal diagnosis, if the patient wasn’t Dr. Hamer, a doctor who began to wonder if his cancer could be related to his son's death. / ..
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Brand: Atico de los Libros
EAN: 9788417743628
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age.The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more land and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788492917310
The Age of Magical Overthinking
From Amanda Montell comes a work that combines cultural criticism with personal narrative, exploring our cognitive biases and the power, drawbacks, and highlights of magical thinking. Montell directs her attention to the inner workings and biases of the human mind. "Magical thinking" is defined as t..
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