Por el bien del imperio
By: Josep Fontana
4.44
Format: 1022 pages, Hardcover
Obra de referencia para entender todos los acontecimientos históricos posteriores a la segunda guer…
Want to Read $ 13.70"Claro está que cuando se ha eliminado la estabilidad laboral de quienes enseñan se puede controlar con más facilidad lo que enseñan."-Josep Fontana, Por el bien del imperio
"Claro está que cuando se ha eliminado la estabilidad laboral de quienes enseñan se puede controlar con más facilidad lo que enseñan."-Josep Fontana, Por el bien del imperio
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
3. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
4. Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
By: B. F. Skinner
3.52
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy since its publication in… read more
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"The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread."-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
"A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself."-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
"Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom."-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
"The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity."-B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
5. A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.94
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taki… read more
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"I’m forever realizing things too late."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"The light of morning decomposes everything."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
6. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
7. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
8. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. Amsterdam
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more
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11. The Time in Between
By: María Dueñas , Daniel Hahn
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The Time In Betweenis a word-of-mouth phenomenon that catapulted Maria Duenas, a debut author, to t… read more
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12. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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13. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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14. Seeing
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote.… read more
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15. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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16. Los girasoles ciegos
By: Alberto Méndez
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
Este libro es el regreso a las historias reales de la posguerra, que contaron en voz baja narradore… read more
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17. How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of How to Liveand How Proust Can Change Your Life, a philosopher asks how ancient … read more
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18. Happening
By: Annie Ernaux
4.32
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."-Annie Ernaux, Happening
19. A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
By: Mark Galeotti
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Russia’s epic and dramatic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"History always wins."-Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
"As ever, though, facts take second place when it comes to building narratives of power and authority"-Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
20. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
21. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
22. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
23. Maldita Roma: La conquista del poder de Julio César (Julio César, #2)
By: Santiago Posteguillo
4.70
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
Maldita Roma es una obra monumental que desvela la épica conquista del poder de Julio César. Un rel… read more
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"Pues ¿qué es la vida sino un largo texto, un largo discurso que vamos construyendo, día a día, sobre nosotros mismos?"-Santiago Posteguillo, Maldita Roma: La conquista del poder de Julio César (Julio César, #2)
24. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
25. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
By: Anna Pacheco
4.14
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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27. Happycracia: Cómo la ciencia y la industria de la felicidad controlan nuestras vidas
By: Edgar Cabanas
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
La industria de la felicidad, que mueve miles de millones de euros, afirma que puede moldear a los … read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy
By: Mario Liverani
4.40
Format: 634 pages, Kindle Edition
The Ancient Near East reveals three millennia of history (c. 3500–500 bc) in a single work. Liveran… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
29. Rusia frente a Ucrania: Imperios, pueblos, energía (Spanish Edition)
By: Carlos Taibo Arias
3.64
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
Edición actualizada en marzo de 2022 tras la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania.Las tensiones entre Ucrani… read more
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- history
30. No seas tú mismo. Apuntes sobre una generación fatigada
By: Eudald Espluga
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
En No seas tú mismo, el filósofo Eudald Espluga disecciona a la generación millennial. En clave aut… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Por el bien del imperio
By: Josep Fontana
4.44
Format: 1022 pages, Hardcover
Obra de referencia para entender todos los acontecimientos históricos posteriores a la segunda guer… read more
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- nonfiction
"Claro está que cuando se ha eliminado la estabilidad laboral de quienes enseñan se puede controlar con más facilidad lo que enseñan."-Josep Fontana, Por el bien del imperio
