All Available Books

  • Hilvanando el destino
    Driving Destiny
    Author:
    Concha Casas
    Publisher: Algaida Editores
    Antonio, a young man from Madrid in his forties, is like so many others the victim of the financial crisis shaking the world. Overwhelmed by his mortgage and a relationship that is going under, he decides to try his luck at the wheel of a taxi, which becomes a sort of magic grotto for him, where he gradually weaves his own destiny.
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  • Hiperactividades y déficit de atención. Comprendiendo el TDHA
    Hyperactivity and attention déficit. Understanding ADHD
    Hiperactividades y déficit de atención. Comprendiendo el TDHA
    Author:
    Mireia Escardíbul Ferrà
    Mª Teresa Miró i Coll
    Mª Teresa Miró i Coll
    Sunsi Segú Colomé
    Mercè Mabres Boix
    Publisher: Editorial Octaedro
    ADHA is one of the most controversial syndromes in current child psychopatholog. Many children are diagnosed with ADHD and treated almost exclusively with drugs, with the risk this implies of the problem becoming medicalized and chronic.
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  • HISTORIA DE AMOR SIN TÍTULO
    Untitled Love Story
    Author:
    RUBÉN OCHANDIANO
    Publisher: Santillana Ediciones Generales
    A pop balad, a love letter to cinema. The confession of a group of survivors Berta Álvarez gets the job of telling the story of Mario Ruiz, a psychiatric patient. 'An exceptional case' is what they call him, without explaining clearly what it is that makes him so.
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  • Historia de España contada a las niñas
    A Girls' History of Spain
    Author:
    María Bastarós
    Publisher: Fulgencio Pimentel SL
    Somewhere between journalistic chronicle, pamphlet, peasant drama and newsstand magazine, The Girls' History of Spain appropriates events and places in our recent history and returns them to us in the form of a corrosive, polyphonic and vibrant puzzle.
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  • Historia de la buena funcionaria
    story of a good civil servant
    Historia de la buena funcionaria
    Author:
    Blas Parra
    Publisher: El Nadir
    A funny & tragic critique of a Spanish civil servant, Berenice, an intelligent, modern woman who thanks to fate  passes the rigorous 'oposiciones' exams for a public sector job on the death of General Franco. After years of dictatorship, democratic parties are entering the municipal palace where the forces of the old regime cling on with all their might.
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  • Historia de la filosofía sin temor ni temblor
    A History of Philosophy. No Reason for Fear or Trembling
    Author:
    Fernando Savater
    Publisher: Espasa
    When the conversation turns to philosophy, many of us start to shiver: Philosophy! What's that? It's definitely not for me! There is no reason for this reaction. We've all asked the basic philosophical questions at some point in our lives: they deal with death, truth, justice, nature, time... To philosophize is just to think about our humanity. But...who were the great philosophers?
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  • Historia de Mr. Sabas, domador de leones, y su admirable familia del Circo Toti
    The Story of Mr. Sabas, lion tamer, and his admirable Toti Circus family
    Author:
    Anelio Rodríguez Concepción
    Publisher: SILVIA PRATDESABA LAFUENTE (EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS)
    The story of Mr. Sabas, a lion tamer, and his admirable Toti Circus family. A unique book which unravels a myth that has survived between collective memory and the strictness of personal secrets. In January 1935, a tragedy with epic consequences occurred in Santa Cruz de La Palma. The keys to the event, as well as the testimony of the Djeordjevic family of artists - of which Mr.
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  • Historia de Sara
    Sara's story
    Odio el Rosa (Historia de Sara)
    Author:
    Ana Alonso y Javier Pelegrín
    Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S. A.
    The year is 2055. Huge multinational companies dominate a globalised world and the symbols of a person's identity can be sold on the market through sophisticated advertising techniques. Education is not aimed at producing effective workers but rather perfect consumers. From a young age, boys and girls are bombarded with publicity adapted to their preferences, psychology and personal weaknesses.
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  • Historia de un árbol
    The story of a tree
    Historia de un árbol
    Author:
    Miguel Ángel Cuesta
    Publisher: Editorial Juventud S.A.
    Agent: ST&A
    This is the story of a tree which lived happily in the forest… until one day, when everything changed. When the tree finally managed to adapt to its new habitat, it found itself once again affected by man's senselessness… A circular story about the cycle of life For 4 years and upwards
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  • Historia del dinero
    The Story of Money
    Author:
    Alan Pauls
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Argentina, the 1970s.The unions are overwhelmed by the radical left, and the CEO of a steel plant dies after falling from the helicopter he was travelling in. The briefcase full of money he had with him disappears without trace. The theories about his death are multiplying, as are those on what the money was for. Doing business with union reps? Corrupting them?
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