In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind. In this "…
Emilia Pardo Bazán reivindicó un "naturalismo" autóctono, de carácter castizo y propio de la literatura española. "Los Pazos de Ulloa" es una muestra de esta convicción y su obra más destacada. Como o…
Tanto el planteamiento teatral de Los interes creados como el diseno de caracteres han sido manejados con una habilidad nada comun. Quiza el mayor acierto de Benavente fue el de dar forma de farsa gui…
The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic a…
«-Tú y yo podríamos asociarnos para hablar de la vida; levantaríamos un gran relato sobre la existencia. ¿Lo hacemos? -dijo el escritor. -Lo hacemos -contestó el paleontólogo.»
Hace años que el interés …
Shelve La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal
LOS LADRONES SOMOS GENTE HONRADA es una comedia de «simple y estricta diversión», porque en ella, según Jardiel, no hay «cimientos psicológicos, pasionales, metafísicos o filosóficos que la justifique…
Existe una figura ambigua, a medio camino entre lo militar y lo civil, que no se terminó de definir hasta hace poco: el ingeniero. Este libro es una exploración …
Las dos obras que integran este libro son, sin duda, en la producción teatral del autor de El retrato de Dorian Gray, de las más significativas y definitorias. Se caracterizan por su brillante animació…
Shelve La importancia de llamarse Ernesto / El abanico de Lady Windermere
«Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído», decía Borges. Y es que los buenos libros nos transforman; un pasaje, por breve que sea, puede despertar la …
Shelve Clásicos para la vida: Una pequeña biblioteca ideal
In this classic discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the exp…
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At th…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a m…
Shelve Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking exploration of why most people make bad judgments, and how to control for that noise.
Éste es probablemente el libro más famoso de Stefan Zweig. En él lleva a su cima el arte de la miniatura histórica y literaria. Muy variados son los acontecimientos que reúne bajo el título de Momento…
Shelve Momentos estelares de la humanidad. Catorce miniaturas históricas
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's lif…
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be a…
Shelve Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of …
'A Tale of a Tub' was the first big work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections o…
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the mo…
Shelve The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the b…
from the arrival of the first men I Greece to the fall of the Mycenaean palace-town in the thirteenth century b.c., this work captures the essential qualities of each period of pre=classical civilizat…
A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden…
Shelve The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
