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Written by Camille Saint-Saëns as a musical joke to share with his friends on carnival day, this is a highly imaginative work put into a different context to the original. For the youngest readers it is a beautiful illustrated book full of animals and handicrafts to make based on the book’s characters.
El Carnaval de los Animales is designed to teach the language of music from psychomotricity, essential in the early years of the child, and games, making it possible to teach the class anywhere, even outdoors on the playground.
A critical look inside global finance which deciphers the characteristic jargon masking the reality of the casino which the financial markets have become, to reveal the mechanisms of speculation: the players (the financing banks, the investment funds, the large corporations, the ratings agencies); the chips they play with (mortgages, derivatives, basic foods, oil, arms, pollution…)
Maruja Sanz is a young girl of humble origins from Valgonzález, a small Castilian town near Segovia. At the end of the sixties she decides to abandon her roots and the life she has led with her parents with the aim of belonging to a different world, one she assumes to be much better, and climb the social ladder.
On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso, was overthrown by men working for Blaise Compaoré, his comrade-in-arms and friend, who immediately succeeded him as president. Thus ended the country's revolutionary phase, set in motion four years earlier by the two men.
In my room there is a hole which I like to look through with the cardboard telescope that we made at school. Through it I can see all sorts of fantastic and unique animals. My friend Juan is also unique...
Games of tennis at noon, displays of popularity on the Barça terraces, drinking vermouth in Turó Park and afternoon shopping trips at Illa Diagonal: this is the calm existence that businessman Amadeu Conill had to sacrifice in 2007 in order to save his company and his life itself.
Pep Costa knows from experience that relationships between brothers and sisters can be difficult to explain. Words don’t suffice because they fail to highlight the nuances, the codes, the ins and outs over the years, and that’s why it’s better to keep quiet and carry on. His older sisters Eva and Sara — the twins — are always fighting and haven’t even spoken to each other in years.