Non Fiction
Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425451041
On the Shortness of Life
In On the Shortness of Life, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) touches on a surprising topic: the feeling of loss of time. We have the false perception that life is short because it is determined by our way of living, full of vices and superfluous occupations. Dedication to wisdom is, for Seneca, the only way t..
$10.75 $11.95
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433927118
The Performer
Combining the sociological and philosophical essay with extensive erudition and a very juicy anecdote, as well as with multiple personal experiences, the author proposes a vast tour through the universe of interpretation. The evolution of performing spaces throughout history, the relationship betwee..
$25.16 $27.95
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433927156
The Executioner's Song
The story of Gary Gilmore, a man in the State Penitentiary of Utah who chose death over endless appeals and an anguished wait on death row. The incredible story, based on hundreds of interviews, focuses on the nine months from the day Gilmore is freed from jail in Indiana...
$31.46 $34.95
Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788415689928
The Usefulness of the Useless
In 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 refle..
$13.46 $14.95
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433927149
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound exploration of the oceanic..
$24.26 $26.95
Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441441033
Stoicism Handbook
Stoicism Handbook, by Epictetus - who grew up as a slave in Nero's Rome - offers the principles of Stoic philosophy. Epictetus, together with the emperor Marcus Aurelius and the philosopher Seneca, is the highest representative. Two pieces of his discourses have been added to the manual: how to act ..
$11.66 $12.95
Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788411720618
Nail Art
This beautifully illustrated exploration of nail art highlights the talents, tools and creativity behind this expressionistic art form. It also examines its impact on fashion culture. Featuring the work of leading manicurists from around the world, it offers freehand designs, avant-garde styles and ..
$17.96 $19.95
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788410523784
Butts: A Backstory
Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy or weird, consider them too big or too small or the complete opposite, humanity has a complicated relationship with butts. It's a body part that only our species possesses, key to its evolution and survival, and yet it has come to mean so much mo..
$21.56 $23.95
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411315364
The Art of Living Death
With a prologue by Carlos Javier González Serrano (sixty thousand followers on Twitter), this book is a literary-philosophical booklet written in adages or aphorisms, a composition of short writings whose themes - people, love, philosophy, literature, poetry, suicide, the West and the East, the dece..
$24.26 $26.95
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433927255
The Phantom Difficulty
Just after finishing her book The Call, one of the best non-fiction books of recent times, Leila Guerriero headed to the Costa Brava in the footsteps of Truman Capote, who wrote much of his famous In Cold Blood there. The result is this work of superb acuity, structure, style and rhythm that mixes f..
$14.36 $15.95
Brand: Koan
EAN: 9788410358034
Nigth Vision
Anxiety is not weakness. Depression is not laziness. Anger, sadness and affliction are not disorders of which we should be ashamed. In this work, existentialist philosopher Mariana Alessandri questions the dominant view that drives us to want to correct, overcome or heal our “dark” emotions. In the ..
$22.46 $24.95
Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425450655
Ethics of Artificial Intellige
The digital revolution has just begun and has a magnitude that is still difficult to measure. We are facing a new phenomenon, which is writing a new chapter in the history of humanity. Life has become unthinkable without the presence of digital services, products and practices; and artificial intell..
$44.06 $48.95