Present Chronicles
Brand: Errata naturae
EAN: 9788417800079
The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts
As ice melts and sea levels rise, threatening human existence as we know it, climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. Philip Kitcher and Evelyn F. Keller, two of today's most renowned scientists, could have written a "conventional" book on this issue, fu..
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Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425431890
The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious (The Pursuit of Unhappiness)
Do you have the makings of an unhappiness expert? With the techniques in this book, you can raise yourself to the genius level. A word of warning, however. Along the way you may begin to ask yourself, "How did I manage to turn myself into my own worst enemy?" Fortunately, this tongue-in-cheek (but s..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788492917150
Belonging
We live in enormously polarized times. From politics to race, religion, gender, and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were “downright evil.” In 2019, hate crimes reached a ten-year high in the United States. One in fi..
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Brand: Acantilado
EAN: 9788419036940
Seventh: "Thou Shalt Not Steal"
This essay offers an insightful reflection on the market's origins in the West, highlighting its role from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age as a collective identity and autonomous value judge. Paolo Prodi argues that the mercantile system, often misunderstood, historically shaped the rule of law, d..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788417694128
No Visible Bruises
In No Visible Bruises, Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don’t know we’re seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths―that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave...
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433924308
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
On February 16, 2012, an accident occurred involving a school bus that was transporting a group of children on a field trip. A tragic event. But the place where it happened added a Kafkaesque dimension to the tragedy, an unbearable degree of unreason. The accident occurred on a road near Jerusalem a..
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Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425446313
The Palliative Society
In this essay, Byung-Chul Han criticizes how the excess positivity of happiness forces us to negate any glimpse of pain and subjects us to a state of permanent anesthesia.Today we live in a society that has developed a phobia of pain, in which there is no longer room for suffering. This widespread f..
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Brand: Herder
EAN: 9788425445484
Capitalism and the Death Drive
This book brings together 14 articles and 2 conversations by Byung-Chul Han about the expansion of capitalism and its consequences. What we call "growth" today is actually the consequence of an excessive increase in carcinomas destroying the social organism. These tumors ceaselessly metastasize and ..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433924230
Too Late to Awaken
The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament. We hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only way to prevent a catastrophe is to assume th..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433919205
The Intruders
In The Intruders, Carlos Manuel Alvarez dives into the recent protest organized in Havana by the San Isidro Movement, which brought together more than two hundred Cuban artists, intellectuals, and activists. In November 2020, the island's regime imprisoned rapper Denis Solís, which led to a peaceful..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411311052
Me, a Denier
The most overtly political novel Nabokov ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Profe..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411318921
Letizia and I
Discover Queen Letizia's secrets that could shake the stability of her marriage. Does Queen Letizia harbor a dark, hidden side? Is she playing a good role as mother to the heir to the throne, Princess Leonor? Is this really a love story of our King and Queen? What hidden decisions and actions have s..
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