Bastardos ilustres

La columna de la muerteno sólo nos descubre la dura realidad de la fase inicial de la guerra civil española, hasta las sangrientas batallas de Badajoz, con un estudio minucioso y desmiti cador realizado pueblo a pueblo y con la aportación de nuevas evidencias documentales, sino que renueva los estudios sobre la represión, llevándolos más allá del debate sobre las cifras, para ahondar en su naturaleza. Espinosa nos muestra que la represión no fue una consecuencia de la guerra, sino una de sus razones explicativas fundamentales y que su aparente irracionalidad cobra un nuevo sentido...

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...

Este relato inspirador y lleno de esperanza sigue tocando y consolando a cientos de miles de personas en todo el mundo, ofreciéndoles un vistazo de la inexpresable dicha celestial.

What if you could change your life without really changing your life? On the outside, Gretchen had it all -- a good marriage, healthy children and a successful career -- but she knew something was missing. Determined to end that nagging feeling, Gretchen set out on a year-long quest, her own “happiness project,” to learn how to better enjoy the life she already had. Each month, Gretchen pursued a different set of resolutions: go to sleep earlier, tackle a nagging task, bring people together, take time to be silly, along with dozens of other goals. She read everything from classical...