Non Fiction
Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788491116905
The Secret Network of Nature
Do living beings share that seventh sense of danger with animals? Is it possible that our smell is even better than that of a dog? Why does our immune system react to the colors and scent of the woods?..
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Brand: Koan
EAN: 9788418223198
Idleness
Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work and effort is flawed--and that idle aimlessness may allow for freedom. A thought-provoking reconsideration of productivity, Idleness shows that no theory of what it means to have a free mind can exclude idleness from the conversatio..
$21.56 $23.95
Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425449796
In Search of the Collective Goodness
Through revealing stories, this work aims to provoke reflection on the effects of incivility in our lives, becoming a concise guide on how to live better. We have many words to describe any act of incivility, but few to explain the opposite. The author proposes the term «civility», a way of improvin..
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Brand: Atico
EAN: 9788416222902
Reclaiming Conversation
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over 30 years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433916198
In the Presence of Schopenhauer
In the eighties, a twenty-year-old Houellebecq grabs at random a book of aphorisms by Schopenhauer and has a revelation: he discovers in him a soul mate, an alter ego of the past, a teacher. That fateful day ended up leading to this book, a kind of dialogue between two people separated by time. / T..
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Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425448973
Enrique Dussel
Enrique Dussel is one of the best-known Latin American philosophers with the greatest impact inside and outside the American continent. This book, which deals with his figure from his biographical, philosophical, historical and political aspects, is essential to get into the thinking of one of the f..
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Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788491119098
Essay on Words
How and why do language and thought arise in the human being? This is, perhaps, one of the questions raised in both anthropology and biology, theology and philosophy. Through a rigorous and eclectic approach, this book addresses not only some of the latest publications on the development of language..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441439306
The Complete Epistolary of Miguel Hernández
With this complete corpus of private letters and notes by the poet Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, 1910-Alicante, 1942), we can better understand the exemplary personality and concerns of a model and committed writer during a turbulent time in Spain. / A través de las misivas se conoce profundamente al..
$89.06 $98.95
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417547721
That wasn´t in my Botany Textbook
Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances b..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788494778698
That was not in my History of Physics Book
Physics is surrounded by many legends that are not true and we ignore realities. To get into these pages that start with the beginning of everything, The Big Bang, you do not need to have scientific knowledge. You just have to get carried away by the author's explanations and let your imagination fl..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417547042
That was not in my History of Chemistry Book
Alejandro Navarro brings us a funny work full of curiosities about the history of chemistry. We will check how throughout history we have used chemistry for good and for evil; to make war, to enrich ourselves at the expense of other people or to poison them, but also to cure ourselves or feed a popu..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417547752
That was not in my Textbook of the Dinosaurs
What was the first fossilized bone ever found? Who came up with the idea of calling them dinosaurs? How did scientists imagine them in the past? Since when are we obsessed with them? What relationship do the fossil remains of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures have with our legends? Did you..
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