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Disobedient
At a time when European citizens are increasingly detached from their political representatives while uncertainties are growing, Tzvetan Todorov makes us discover or rediscover figures who, each in their own way, have managed to reconcile moral demands and public action. They lived in different cont..
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EAN: 9788419075536
Love and Longing
Christo has left his parents in Athens and moved to Stockholm. In his early twenties, a scholarship from the Swedish government gives him the opportunity to study the history of ideas at university, something he had always dreamed of. But he is too lonely in Stockholm, where he survives with precari..
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EAN: 9788418807961
Eclipse Atlas
A hypnotic narrative essay, travel book, and non-fiction novel that takes place during one hundred days of the year 2020. From mid-February, when Reinaldo Laddaga contracted the coronavirus, to the demonstrations that caused the murder of George Floyd. During those strange months, the author dedicat..
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EAN: 9788419075482
Solving Public Problems
The challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful ..
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EAN: 9788418218347
The Spirit of Enlightenment
After the death of God and the dismemberment of utopias, our time seems to be thrown into uncertainty. Many of the intellectual efforts today are aimed at finding a common framework on which to base acts and speeches. And history shows us that we are not alone in this task. An intellectual project, ..
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EAN: 9788419075550
The Great Journey
At the beginning of the 21st century, a man obsessed with invisibility takes the same boat trip that his grandparents did in the middle of the last century on their honeymoon. In Patagonia they met a unique woman, Graciela Pavic, whose mysterious story contains a painful secret. But the origin of he..
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EAN: 9788419075673
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ri..
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EAN: 9788418526213
Jack
After "Gilead", "At home" and "Lila", Marilynne Robinson returns to the world of Gilead with "Jack", the fourth component of one of the most important contemporary novel cycles. "Jack" tells the story of John Ames Boughton, who was already one of the leads in "At home". Prodigal son of Reverend Boug..
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EAN: 9788419738233
Death in Common
The book explores "common death" beyond mere mortality, focusing on losing someone who defines us and its impact on the community. It questions if a society unskilled in grieving faces collective pathological grief and examines the effects of losing communal rituals and reduced mourning time. By lin..
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EAN: 9788419075611
Exiled Shadow
In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misa..
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EAN: 9788419075512
The Woman Upstairs
Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people’s achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family -dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena, an Italian artist, and their son, Reza- draws her into a complex and exciting new worl..
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EAN: 9788418807718
The Lives of Others
Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take c..
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