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For its current relevance and its contents, 25 preguntas sobre el cambio climático, is a book of unquestionable value, since climate change has already been recognized as the major environmental problem that humanity must face from now on.
A reissue of this collection of stories by Antoniorrobles, one of the most popular and well loved works of its time. Through the humour and sensitivity of his writing, Antoniorrobles develops a set of values for childhood which are as essential now as they were in the past.
31 Nights is a month of August that begins and ends in a vat of sulphuric acid in wait of a corpse to dissolve. It is a corrosive story, set deep down in the guts of a disco, the Premium Room, where a journalist finds himself dragged into a plot involving drugs, discoteque thugs and outstanding debts in the Madrid nightlife.
Could we turn on lightbulbs with our hands? Charge mobile phones just by touching them? Someone discovered how to do this over a century ago, someone truly exceptional. But his daring visions changed our systems only up to the point he was allowed to do so.
"35Muertos is a sprawling, fast-paced novel set in Colombia’s recent past and dealing with the country’s history of an epidemic of violence. I think anyone who enjoys García Márquez would like it.” (Rosalind Harvey)
Cosmo, the main character of this story, is a bon vivant, an attractive man whose life has lessened his attractions. An episode of cardiac arrhythmia takes him to the emergency department of a hospital where, due to being mistaken for the head of a drug cartel, he is on the verge of being murdered.
This book is a real innovation within the extremely rich scene of Spanish and Galician cookery, a work that will open the reader’s eyes to a world of new sensations, tastes and textures.
In this practical guide, Drs Maite Peña and Alma María Dono set out 50 common situations during the course of a pregnancy, including medical control, normal changes or warning signals that can occur during gestation and, more briefly, during childbirth and the postnatal period.
This book offers a panorama of the multiple ways of using blackberries, redcurrants, blueberries and raspberries, but also gooseberries and elderberries. Most of the suggestions – wonderfully illustrated with Ana Couceiro’s photographs – are very simple and serve as a base for other preparations.
'In my city there were seven men who wore bowler hats. They always went about together. They were serious, stuffy, wore only black and twirled their moustaches. Until one day the wind swept one of the hats far, far away and showed them something new.' Seven Men in Bowler Hats is a story to make us think, laugh and reflect.