Non Fiction
Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964298
The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his ..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788492921638
The Boiling River
When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, Ruzo -now a geoscientist- sets out on a journey deep into the Amazon. / En esta emocionante aventura mezclada con..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964342
The Rub of Time
Martin Amis turns his piercingly observant eye on Donald Trump, whom he finds “scowling out from under an omelette of makeup” in the run-up to the 2016 Republican Convention, and at a post-election rally, regarding his crowd of supporters with a “flat sneer of Ozymandian hauteur.
Martin Amis fue cro..
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Brand: Obelisco
EAN: 9788497777254
The Occult Significance of the Blood
This book goes beyond the mere symbolism that is often associated with "blood." It takes you right to the heart of its esoteric essence and will have you reconsidering and valuing, in a way you never have before, just what it is that is coursing through your veins. / La sangre no es únicamente un g..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441440043
The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who challenged the beliefs of his age. His book, The Subjection of Women, is one of the earliest written on this subject by a male author. Mill stresses the importance of sexual equality, attempts to make a case for perfect equality and role changes within m..
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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..
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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: 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..
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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: 9788417547165
That was not in my History of Radioactivity Book
Radioactivity has been on our planet since it was formed about 4.5 billion years ago and we have realized that a little over a century ago. But what is it? Who discovered it? How did we realize that it existed? If you want to discover the most surprising facts of radioactivity, you have to read this..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433964083
Studies of Discomfort
When misfortune kills citizens by stripping them of their material well-being, this discomfort is called poverty." In the current landscape, populism spreads across America and Europe. A lucid and argued warning about the discontent in which we live and the one that awaits us. / La crisis económica..
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