Ensayos. Breves y Sin Pretensiones

Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...

Neil Postman, con Huxley, se pregunta "de qué nos reímos y por qué hemos dejado de pensar," y dirige sus respuestas a la televisión y a su modo entretenido de presentar, que ha transformado drásticamente la política, la educación, el periodismo, la ciencia y la religión. Recordando la frase del actor presidente norteamericano Ronald Reagan (La política es igual que el show business), Postman se lamenta de la muerte de la palabra impresa, con pasión de profesor y melancolía de sabio historiador. El principal error de la cultura del entretenimiento, según Postman, consiste en el...

Pater Cloister untersucht mit einer Kommission des Vatikans paranormale telepathische Phänomene. Kann mit seiner Hilfe ein aus brennendem Haus geretteter alter Gärtner von seiner Besessenheit geheilt werden?

Writing Grandmothers, Africa Vs Latin America Vol 2 is a continuation of the cross-continental anthologies series, particularly focussing on African and Latin American writers. It continues on from where Experimental Writing, Africa Vs Latin America, Vol 1. The anthology has 6 nonfiction pieces, 10 fiction pieces, and 67 poems and translations of poems in the two dominant languages of the two continents, English and Spanish. There is work from poets and writers from Honduras, Mexico, USA, UK, Cuba, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile Puerto Rico, Spain, Nigeria, South...