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Everything that happens in the present is derived from the past, and for that reason, knowledge of that past is essential if we wish to construct the future on a solid basis. These are the two central ideas of this book. We must understand the reason for our situation, assume our responsibilty and add our own effort, our own dream and even our courage to change the situation.
In 1969 the author begins his unusual journey east to save his girlfriend who is imprisoned in Beirut. When he doesn't achieve this, he decides to continue travelling. His open attitude to people and his positive poetic predisposition to marvel at everything is balanced by a sense of reality and justice which makes him rebel against the abuses he sees throughout his journey.
The historical event full of hope that took place on January 1, 1959, and which gave rise to so much joy and admiration and so many expectations, has at the very least become part of a mythical narrative that justifies relations and institutions in the so-called revolutionary world.
"Writing and publishing are acts of recycling that come from thinking and imagining, which are things we do with different purposes and different results: greyer and less subtle".
If you haven't yet thought about what you want to be when you grow up, use your imagination! You might be trying to choose between teaching the alphabet or curing grown-ups and children. A title in the "Oroneta" collection, composed of 10 stories that use fun and ingenuity to introduce young readers to everyday concepts in their world.
Carmen de Moering, the girl who lived in Paris at the turn of the century, and who, at the age of nine, escaped from a boarding school, was not really called Carmen, as they thought at her school. She was in fact called Sol. Sol was the daughter of Francisco Ferrer Guardia, autodidactic idealogue and man of action.
Madrid. Any Irish pub. Beer and more beer against a soundtrack spurned by two very different generations. He is a piano teacher in his forties, who escaped autism thanks to music. She is an ex-pupil in her twenties and has just signed the mortgage papers with her third-rate musician boyfriend.
Did you know that cutting paper helps children to think, aids the reading-writing process and encourages creativity?
In this book, you will find 28 projects to choose from, each more surprising and amusing that the next. All cut out techniques gathered in a single book: kirigami, origami, finger puppets, masks and accordions… they turn, move, do magic and make your jaw drop.
In 1929 Joan Marín published the story of his journey in a luxury cruise liner, in a cheery and optimistic account that we have now managed to recover, eighty years later, in order to offer modern-day readers a chance to transport themselves into the golden period of the great cruise liners.
Mónica — known to everyone as Minimoni — likes painting thousands things in colour: blue skies, penguins, gorillas… but she's never painted a kiss. Because… what colour is a kiss? Red like the tomato sauce for spaghetti? Maybe not, because that's the colour of anger… And what about green, like the crocodiles she loves so much? Hmm… definitely not!