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This book is considered to be one of the most outstanding essays ever written on the logical possibilities and difficulties of a science of society. Considerations on the method to follow in the different areas of the social sciences are offered. In his introduction, J.
Álvaro's house is the highest in the city. He studies the moon from his balcony every night and wonders what it is that causes it to wane... A lovely story about wishes, the importance of caring and, most of all, friendship.
A forbidden love affair, a passionate adventure set between 19th century England and Cuba. María Lezcano's tranquil life comes to an end at the age of nineteen when she realises that she is in love with her adoptive brother, Eric. Such a thing is scandalous in England in 1870… When the young man realises that he is in love with her too, he decides to leave the family home.
One day the moon got tired of looking at the Earth and went on a trip. She wanted to know what there was beyond the Earth. She wanted to find out about that red planet she could see in the distance, and discover what was at the edges of the galaxy. Go adventuring with the moon and find out about the planets in our solar system, their colours, shapes, sizes, behaviour and stars.
Jacob has decided to die. A car accident has left him paraplegic and in such pain that his life is unbearable. His father David faces the hardest of tests: witnessing the event.
In 1350, when Europe is recovering from the Black Death, the future pope Gregorius XI visits the Tuscan painter Adriano de Robertis to destroy his last work, the blasphemous Bearded Virgin. On February 25 1970, the American painter Mark Rothko slits his wrists in his New York Studio.
In 1954, after going into exile in 1939 and being taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family for 15 years, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos. There, Germán meets Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, intelligent woman who murdered her own parents, and a young assistant, María.
Jack's Mum is a children's picture book for children aged six years and upwards. It is based on a traditional oral tale which exists in several different versions. The story aims to explain to children how death is a part of life. Jack's mum is very ill, nearer to life than death. Jack is crying on the beach when he meets Death, who is looking for his mother.
If a woman had ever been destined to shine, it was Beatriz Calanda, whose eccentric, outrageous life iunfolds during the last sixty years of Spanish history. Darling of society magazines, with a life etched with glamour, scandals and scoops, the grande dame of the Madrid jet set, everyone knows who Beatriz Calanda is and who her four husbands were.
The inspiring story of one woman's tireless struggle to change the course of a stunted society. She will not allow her past to be used in negotiations.