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In May 1868, the architect of the Paris Opera and the Monte Carlo Casino, Jean-Louis Charles Garnier set off on a journey around Spain lasting 25 days; he was accompanied by his wife, Louise Bary, and two friends: his disciple the architect Ambroise Baudry and the painter Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger.
With this book, Eduardo Punset ends a trilogy about happiness, love and power, “three topics that structure and affect the world”. After El viaje a la felicidad and El viaje al amor, which have already inspired over half a million readers, Spain’s most notable popular science writer invites us on an “intimate journey into the power of the mind”.
Kalilu left Gambia with the goal of coming to Europe so he could work; help his family and even study. He then ignored that most part of Africans never get their destination, neither come back home. What happens in the meantime? This thrilling witness explains a true odyssey full with tramps, slow progresses and fast obstacles that leave almost no resources to these travellers.
In 1946, a year after the end of the Second World War, Alej, an elderly bookseller, recounts to his friends a legend that has been told since the times of his oldest forebears, and will change the lives of all of them. Kiran’s Journey tells how, even in the face of all the problems that can get in the way, it is still possible for a person to find happiness.
Devised and illustrated by Japanese illustrator Satoe Tone, winner of the International Bologna Book Fair - Fundación SM Illustration Prize 2013, this is the story of a frog who sets off on a journey through other people’s dreams to try to restore his ability to dream. Over the course of this journey, Pipo the frog will discover the importance of friendship.
The Calligrapher was sure that beyond the valley and the mountains there were other valleys and other mountains and he dreamed of telling each the stories of the other. So, one day, instead of sitting at his desk he bundled up four things and set off into the thick forest. This is how the Calligrapher began his travels and how the people learned that they weren't alone.
The daisy is covered in plant lice! To solve the tragedy of his beloved daisy, the old man gets into a maze of problems that have an unexpectedly happy ending. Guridi illustrates this funny story by Roberto Aliaga with affection and a lot of humour.
1273, Kublai Jan, grandson of of the fearsome Ghengis, last Great Jan and first Chinese emperor of the Yuan dynasty, decides to invade Japan's Nihon islands. His dream: to unify the world under his command.
What is the difference between a woman in the twenty first century and in previous epochs? Does gender equality mean she has to renounce her different point of view and her values? Postmodernity offers a new integrating paradigm which overcomes the dualist vision of opposition and suggests kinder, less aggressive ways of living. Nowadays feminine energy is becoming more prominent.
In the wake of the acclaimed short story book "Los peces de la amargura" (The fishes of sorrow), The Guardian of the Ford provides eight stories written in implacable and lucid style. The circumstances and life experiences of the characters are taughtly drawn, underlining all the drama and heroism that the human soul contains, as well as the meanness, atrocity and absurdity.