Libros de Otros géneros narrativos, página 8 de 39

Sé tú; sé tú mismo. Y prepárate; no te sorprendasMás que un pensamiento, deseaba tener un secreto: así todo pensamiento podría tener lugarEl vértigo de la soledad no siempre es fácil de distinguir de

En 100 raons per ser ateu (i trobar sentit a la vida), l"autor es llança en una profunda exploració del complex entramat de creences religioses, rastrejant la seva evolució des dels mites antics fins als memes moderns. Aprofundint en les bases cognitives, culturals i historiques de la fe, el lli...

En las páginas que siguen, se va a mostrar por qué es esencial que la tradición de la cultura sindical democrática debe evolucionar con absoluta independencia de ideologías partidistas y religiosas; de lo contrario, se corre el riesgo de que el efecto negativo de estas influencias externas inte...

A Guardian Financial Times New Statesman The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world THE TIMES A work of great confidence empathy learning and imagination RORY STEWART Bold beautifully written and filled with insights Extraordinary PETER FRANKOPAN One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThe West the story goes was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance But what if that isn t true In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe So much of our shared history has been lost drowned out by the concept developed in the Victorian era of separate civilisations Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration How the World Made the West reveals a new narrative one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West as societies met tangled and somet

El asturiano Miguel Ángel Alonso Treceño persevera en el género más breve con estas Afonías donde consolida su propuesta personal, que aúna las dosis justas de ironía y compasión, sabiduría vital y c

La soledad es una palabra que cada día toma más presencia en nuestras vidas. Cada vez más personas viven y mueren solas, pero también cada vez más personas deciden viajar sin compañía o criar en solitario. La soledad es un problema, pero tambien hay qu

El autor se erige en testigo y transcriptor de todo tipo de experiencias y mensajes con los que se cruza en el mundo real, reproduciendo un mundo convulso y casi apocalíptico en el que el hombr

En la presente obra se realiza un análisis del fenómeno de lo cómico, para ello se recogen reflexiones de diversos autores, pero en especial está centrado en Henri Bergson, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez y Marcel Proust. En la obra se trata de responder a algunas de las multiples preguntas que surgen al pensar en lo comico. ¿Por que nos reimos cuando alguien se tropieza? ¿Por que resulta tan gracioso ver a dos personas vestidas igual y haciendo los mismos gestos en la acera de una calle cualquiera? ¿Por que nos reimos cuando un orador en una pausa del discurso saca un bocadillo de un portafolio? ¿Por que en algunas series comicas hay risa ``enlatada`` y no hay ninguna melodramatica con llanto ``enlatado``? Nos extrañaria muchisimo que en la escena de una pelicula en la que se narra un hecho dramatico se escuchara de fondo el llanto pronunciado por un grupo de personas para invitar al espectador a llorar.

Este libro cuenta la historia de amor entre un funcionario de prisiones y una presa, destrozada por un sistema institucional arcaico y corrupto. A través del diario del funcionario Luis Miguel Vela Arevalo conoceremos todas las trabas e impedimentos que puso Instituciones Penitenciarias para impedir primero su relacion y mas tarde su matrimonio con la interna Carmen Beatriz Banha, natural de Guinea Bissau, encarcelada en Las Palmas y posteriormente trasladada a Jaen, donde se conocieron y enamoraron. La lista de ilegalidades de la Direccion General de Instituciones Penitenciarias cometida sobre la interna es larga: impedir las comunicaciones, restringir las llamadas telefonicas, prohibir los permisos, falsificar la firma de Luis Miguel en Correos para sustraer el certificado de nacimiento de Carmen Beatriz, trasladarla de prision hasta en dos ocasiones para impedir que se vieran y, por ultimo, para culminar la tropelia, suspender sin motivo legal las practicas de funcionario a Luis Miguel, tras dos años de trabajo sin una sola falta en el expediente, a base de mentiras inventadas sin ningun tipo de escrupulo. Una injusticia que arruino y destrozo la vida de dos personas cuyo unico delito fue enamorarse, por el simple hecho de que para la Direccion General estaba mal visto y no podian permitir la relacion entre un funcionario de prisiones y una presa.

Intensely readable poetic truthful wise and wonderful STEPHEN FRY An extraordinary book SUNDAY TIMESStruggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm In July 2019 Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen year old daughter Iris in an accident on their family farm in Somerset Iris s death left her family reeling Grasping for answers Ben threw himself into searching for some ongoing trace of his beloved child exploring ideas that until then had seemed too abstract to mean much to him Missing his daughter terribly and struggling to imagine how he would face the rest of his life in the shadow of this loss Ben found solace in nature the object of a lifelong fascination As Ben set about rewilding his farm nature became a vital source of meaning and hope This book is the story of a year of soul searching that followed a terrible loss In an instant Ben s world had turned dark Yet unbelievably to him the seasons kept on turning and as he immersed himself in the dramatic restoration of nature in the place where it happened he found healing In God is an Octopus Ben tells a powerful immersive and inspiring story of finding comfort and strength in nature aft

A little optimism goes a long way Wise wonderful Betsy I am blown away by her courage and wisdom Fearne Cotton Betsy is the most gloriously wonderful positive cute inspiring girl Her disabi

Personajes es un libro de auto ficción, donde fotografía, realidad y un poco de fábula se funden para convertir las palabras en escenas descriptivas de los recuerdos que la autora conserva de su familia y de otras personas menos conocidas; sucesos que, lejos de ser insignificantes, acaban siendo entrañables, porque la vida es un entramado que se teje con las historias de la gente comun y, una vez contadas, se engrandecen y dejan de ser anonimas.

ESTE LIBRO ES UNA EXPRESIóN DE RECONOCIMIENTO Y DE RESPETO HACIANICOLáS GONZáLEZ RUIZ, COETáNEO DE LOS PRIMEROS PROPAGANDISTAS Y FIELAMIGO DE HERRERA ORIA, DEL QUE SE CONSIDERABA DEUDOR Y SEGUIDOR. SIRVA ESTE LIBRO DE HOMENAJE A AMBOS EN LA CONCURRENCIA D

Ses Salines, 1906. A una casa de només ’una habitació, a una Mallorca profundament rural, neix Gabriel Vicens i Bonet. Els seus records d’infància ens fan viatjar cap a carrers sense asfaltar, a figu

From the author of Addlands and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris an immersive and evocative non fictional journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation on the nation s past present and

The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE This book is the one Think Sapiens and triple it Julia Hobsbawm author of Fully Connected We all have ten types of human in our head They re the people we become when we face life s most difficult decisions We want to believe there are things we would always do or things we never would But how can we be sure What are our limits Do we have limits The Ten Types of Human is a pioneering examination of human nature It looks at the best and worst that human beings are capable of and asks why It explores the frontiers of the human experience uncovering the forces that shape our thoughts and actions in extreme situations From courtrooms to civil wars from Columbus to child soldiers Dexter Dias takes us on a globe spanning journey in search of answers touching on the lives of some truly exceptional people Combining cutting edge neuroscience social psychology and human rights research The Ten Types of Human is a provocative map to our hidden selves It provides a new understanding of who we are and who we can be The Ten Types of Human is a fantastic piece of non fic

No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a detective of the highest order and can we harness his genius In Mastermind psychologist Maria Konnikova shows us how we can all channel Holmes s famous powers of deduction observation memory and imagination Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that can help sharpen our perceptions improve our logic and enhance our creative powers Mastermind is a remarkable and entertaining guide to upgrading the mind

Vast and arresting SPECTATOR A remarkably human take on the geological world NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years Nothing is ever lost just transformed Marcia Bjornerud s life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world As one of few women in her field she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth from solid object to an entity in a constant state of transformation In the most tumultuous times of her own life a deep understanding of our rocky planet imbued her life with meaning The lives of rocks are long and complex spanning billions of years and yet shaping our own human lives in powerful invisible ways Sandstone that filters out pathogens creating underground oases in aquifers of clean water Ecologite is the chosen rock whose formation keeps the planet running Earth is not just a passive backdrop or a source of resources to be mined extracted and carved out Rocks are full of wisdom but somewhere along the way many of us have forgotten how to hear it When we are uncertain about where to find truth a geocen

Discover the cookbook you ll never want to live without filled with the secrets to creating delicious home cooked meals every single day I want to eat every single recipe in this book NIGELLA LAWSON There are wonderful tales and recipes here and lots of wisdom It s approachable anchored in real life and a joy to read I want more DIANA HENRY A wonderful book full of inspiring simple and time saving recipes This should be an everyday book for everybody TOM KERRIDGE Debora Robertson home cook and renowned food writer tells how from the least promising of culinary starts she learned to love cooking and transformed her cosy kitchen into the beating heart of her home Through her stories and recipes she will whisk you away to hot summers in Languedoc and balmy weeknights in London revealing the life changing dishes that made her Bound together with life and dinner saving lessons Debora has written the essential kitchen companion for every home cook From the tastes of Debora s childhood to the recipes she discovered on her travels to the food she cooks every day Leek and ham hock steamed pudding Slow roast lamb with Durham salad Meemaw s Texan margarita pie The best recipe for roast chicken Delicious plum cake Debora

Stefano Maderno y su Cecia de Roma, Bernini y su Santa Teresa en éxtasis, las cosas que tenía en su cabeza Camile Claudel; las chicas pintadas por Modigliani, el gabinete de curiosidades de Remedios Varo, los colores segun Klein.... Algunas pwersonas son hermosas. Persisten en su gesto de alumbrar hermosura, esa flor rara que hace la vida soportable. Porque la hermosura es finalmente de quien lee. Y de lo que ha perdido.