Biography & Memoirs
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788415732334
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
Nikola Tesla invented the radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories, yet he has been largely overlooked by history. In Tesla, Richard Munson presents a comprehensive portrait of this farsighted and underappreciated mastermind.
Nikola Tesla, uno..
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Brand: Koan
EAN: 9788410358096
Thoreau, Yogi of the Forest
In 1844, a 28-year-old Harvard graduate decided to spend two years in the woods, on the edge of a pond called Walden, in the heart of Massachusetts, with Homer and the Bhagavad Gita in his luggage. He built a cabin, walked, smelled, contemplated, meditated, immersed himself body and soul in the “wil..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788410354142
Three Queens
The world is a chessboard on which the pieces of the British monarchy play an essential role. Within that framework, three women have dominated the scene in a preponderant way. Elizabeth II, the queen that she was, was so by the random movement of the succession chains. In her own way, she exercised..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433916365
A Cinephile at the Vatican
In 1990 Román Gubern met Enrique Planas who turned out to be the leader of the Vatican Film Library. When Gubern settled in Rome as director of the Cervantes Institute, the Catalan priest contacted him and proposed to participate in the Vatican preparations to celebrate the centenary of the cinema. ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433908094
A Day in the Life of an Editor
This book starts with the meticulous description of a day in the life of an editor. And, from there, a complete journey through the secrets of the publishing sector and the evolution and the entrails of Anagrama since founded in 1969 until the present.
Este libro arranca precisamente con la minucios..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433998699
A Certain Age
Throughout these workbooks there’s a list of flashes of childhood, adolescence and past days: short chronicles, articles, notes, micro-stories, small poems... And also thoughts about writing, theater, criticism, music and other arts. / A lo largo de estos cuadernos des?lan destellos de infancia, ad..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433907981
Butterfly in the Typewriter
This is a story about John Kennedy Toole, an author of a very special novel in 20th century American literature: A Confederacy of Dunces. Cory Maclauchlin has written the biography that this genius writer deserves, going deep into the details of his life, constructing the story from the historical ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433973306
Travels with Herodotus
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent. He was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Travels with Herodotus is an excep..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433999207
Living Ain't so Much Fun and Getting Old a Pain in the butt
Oscar Tusquets was writing a book "about the pain of growing old and the acceptance of dying" when the pandemic broke out and, of course, he could not resist the temptation to include some of his reflections, always insightful and politically incorrect: the government’s obsession to prohibit, the ae..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418346491
Vlad Draculea
This book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most famous earl of all time in his novel Dracul..
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Brand: Sélector
EAN: 9789706434470
Yes, I am gay
Yes, I am gay! is the crude, but true, recapitulation of the life of a homosexual. Alberto Sánchez, in this autobiographical work, shares as an actor and witness, a reality in which feelings and thoughts will have to face a society full of prejudices and rejections. Alberto, at only seventeen years ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433980656
West of Eden
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic EdiePraise for West of Eden“Compulsively readable, capturing not just a vibrant part of the history of Los Angeles—that uniquely ‘American Place’ ..
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