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Palacios is a man in his forties who is trying to move away from his most recent profession: contract killer. A stroke of luck in the form of a very well-paid job seems to make retirement a possibility, but once the job is done everything starts to become complicated and both his payment and his own integrity are in grave danger.
The year is 2040. The headquarters of Knowledge and Power are trying to erase from the face of the earth all traces of philosophy and insubordination in order to maintain an automated and obedient society. Philosophy has become a dangerous and defiant weapon, capable of demolishing the building of (dis)knowledge promulgated by wisdom.
This book is a series of simple origami projects for open minds, from eight years and up. A series of folded paper figures waiting to be put together, played with and given as presents. With a little bit of patience, you can see it’s easier than it looks, and when you’ve made the first figure you’ll realise the game has just begun and you’ll have lots of fun.
Young Soltaren leaves her friends behind to go in search of the lost kingdom. During the many ups and downs she experiences on the journey, the girl starts to realize that cooperation is the best way to tackle the obstacles in her path.
This poem demonstrates Joana Raspall's ability to comprise in a few words a universal message that is easily understandable for the youngest readers. We are all human, our origins are partly due to coincidence, and our responsibilities are to help each other. The colour of our skin, our language, food, clothes and games might all be different, if we are born in a different place.
What better place to discover poetry than the garden? A place where time stands still, like a satisfied lizard, only to fly off as flighty as a ladybird. The bees, the frogs, the sparrows and the snails: all have their corners and their games, their poetry.
What is today known as the oeuvre of this Barroque conceptualist is only the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to a rigorous analysis of the texts attributed to Quevedo in the Evora manuscript, undertaken by the research doctor María Hernández, part of the moral, erotic, satirical and political poetry that has survived the centuries has been recovered.
The Arctic Ocean, 1960. Everything has changed on board the Eridanus, an old prospecting ship anchored off the island of Jan Mayen. In just a few days the crew's cabins have become prison cells and the pantry has been transformed into an interrogation room where Vatne and the mysterious Mr Dodt viciously carry out their work.
Travel journalism returns. In the 21st century the planet has been mapped, measured, photographed and explained down to the last detail. Is finding Terra Incognito, savouring something approaching a discovery an impossible task? Not for an exceptional reporter who follows in the wake of the great masters of literary journalism, from Robert B.
Toadcop is a young toad with only one burning desire: to become a police officer. Everyday he talks about his wish to everyone he finds on the road, and he’s so insistent that, after completing his secondary education, takes a long journey to Luque to fulfil his cherished dream.