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"I'm going to tell you the things that only a big brother will tell you; that your father will never say". A millennial text that echoes Sex and the City, Girls or Fleabag, Ethics for Julia steers well clear of approved protocols and bases itself purely on the disarming sincerity of what it wants to say.
If we were living with humans of other species less gifted than our own, such as neanderthals or some kind of homo hablilis, we would respect our differences and not regard them as creatures to be used to serve us.
A beautiful book written by prestigious, multi-awarded Galician writer Teresa Moure and illustrated by painter Leandro Lamas, one of the most unique artists in the current painting landscape of Galicia.
What happened to Dani Santana? The journalist is in plaster from head to foot in hospital after an attempted assassination. In the hospital, which is a world with its own rules, he makes friends with Gratu, a young rugby player who has ended up in a wheelchair. Gratu, a restless patient and compulsive hacker, drags Santana to investigate certain practices that have led the health system to ruin.
The First World War has been considered by many historians as the true dividing line of 20th century European history, the traumatic break with the dominant politics of the time.
Eva works as a striptease dancer in a sordid industrial city. Taking refuge in an impenetrable and grey solitude, she hides from herself and from a cruel past marked by the fatal gift of her beauty. Every day she unclothes her body in the peep-show cabin, but only when she meets Adán, a shy, sensitive teenager half her age, does she feel able to reveal her soul to anyone.
This book has three main topics: a) the historical plane situates the gospel in the context of the Judean War (66-70 AD) from inside the deployment of the Christian communities. b) The theological plane highlights Mark’s contribution in the deployment of the identity and consciousness of the Church, identifying the (risen) Christ with the historical Jesus.
Lara's nickname at school is 'weirdo'. The main reason why Lara is marginalised is that she's only interested in literature, and social interaction isn't her strong point. Lara has lived in Paris for two years, and she thought that this change in her life would give her an opportunity; however, it hasn't turned out like that.
From how it all began to a compendium of formulae to make us happier in an improved world, touching on the keys to our emotions, the complexity of the brain and the secrets of the Earth, Eduard Punset gives us his clear, pleasing and accessible reflections on these gripping questions.