Libros de

Silencio

Pepe, un joven voluntariamente parado de 35 años, busca vivir de las letras en un piso que se cae de viejo, sin agua caliente ni calefacción pero que le han dejado gratis. Para ello deberá enfrentarse a obstáculos como las drogas, el sueño, la pesadumbre ...

Mujeres de Ucrania

'La mujer que enterró a su hijo en su parcela': He aquí un libro que crea música de conciencia, que halla ritmo en tiempos de miedo, que ofrece un lenguaje en el silencio tras los bombardeos y que construye una mar de palabras para tratar ...

Imágenes de sueños

La colección de relatos cortos Imágenes de sueños fue escrita entre los años 1915 y 1917, como testimonio de una profunda crisis espiritual, y publicada de manera póstuma en 1920. Se trata de una recopilación de esbozos narrativos y prosas fragmentarias que reflexionan alegóricamente sobre ...

Valse mélancolique

Con el murmullo de los abetos y el rumor del río entre las piedras, con palabras que huelen a humo de leña, a tierra húmeda y a lana mojada… escribe Olha Kobylianska estas historias. Su prosa respira monte y melodía. Mujeres que caminan descalzas sobre ...

La silla vacía

y otros relatos

La silla vacía y otros relatos, publicada originalmente en 1919, es una obra clave en la primera época creativa de Richard Weiner, en la que aparecen los temas y procedimientos fundamentales de libros posteriores como El barbero (1927) y El juego a la verdad (1934 ...

La danza del astronauta

En el Durango de los noventa, mientras España se prepara para estrenar el Museo Guggenheim y sueña con el futuro, la vida de Elaia Azkarate se detiene en la oscuridad del presente. Tras una pérdida devastadora, su casa se convierte en un mausoleo, un espacio ...

Bizca de pechos

Esta novela de Carmina Prieto es un viaje sin retorno a la intimidad más sagrada y brutal. A través de notas crudas y sin filtros, la protagonista Carmen nos abre la puerta a sus pensamientos más privados y oscuros. En sus páginas, se entrelazan reflexiones ...

Bach: La música infinita

Vida, obra y legado de uno de los pilares de la música

En general, la literatura existente sobre la figura de Johann Sebastian Bach es seria y especializada en exceso. Aunque todos los aficionados a la llamada música clásica o música culta tienen claro que Bach es una de las pocas referencias absolutas y esenciales, por más ...

Los ayunos de la reina Ester

La aventura de una joven judeoespañola refugiada en la América del siglo XVII para salvarse de la Inquisición

La joven judeo-española Fermosa Ester Rut se ve obligada a huir de España durante la persecución de la Inquisición, acompañada por su padre, en busca de un nuevo comienzo. Cruza el Atlántico y llega al Nuevo Mundo, donde se enfrenta a tierras desconocidas, gentes extrañas ...

Before colonization

non-Western states and systems in the nineteenth century

Prior to European colonization, the world was thickly populated with hundreds of independent states and vibrant regional state systems. Yet these states are typically excluded from traditional international relations scholarship, which has mostly focused on the European experience. This book provides a groundbreaking comparative analysis ...

The world in flameS

a global history of the Seven Years' War

In the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), two European rivalries-between England and France and between Prussia and Austria-collided to spark a global conflagration. In the United States, it is known as the French and Indian War, a precursor to the Revolutionary War. In India, by contrast ...

Ancient Mediterranean incarceration

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to ...

The importance of being gorgeous

gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As ...

Sails and shadows

how the Portuguese opened the Atlantic and launched the slave trade

How the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade. The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western shores. With their dedication to developing new sailing techniques and groundbreaking new knowledge of weather patterns ...

The people's princes

Machiavelli, leadership, and liberty

A new window into Machiavelli's idea of virtuous leadership and the appropriate relationship among leaders, common citizens, and elites. For more than a decade, John P. McCormick has been at the forefront of a new wave of scholarship that reveals the anti-elitist and democratic ...

Revolution

modern uprisings in ancient time

A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, "revolution" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in ...

Vulgar Marxism

revolutionary politics and the dilemmas of worker education, 1891-1931

Offers a transformative reading of the Marxist tradition by uncovering its connections to the institutions and practices of worker education. For the past hundred years, "vulgar Marxism" has been the go-to insult among socialist and communist intellectuals, a shorthand for the ways Marxist theory could ...

A Short History of the English Revolution and the Civil Wars

James I and VI bequeathed his son a reasonably peaceful land in 1625, yet over a decade later, Charles I's kingdoms erupted one by one into open rebellion- this book explores how this came to be. David J. Appleby explains how interconnected conflicts arose ...

The medieval scriptorium

making books in the Middle Ages

This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator - including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator - introducing various aspects of manuscript production. Sara J. Charles poses ...

The Black Cross

a history of the Baltic crusades

A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacy Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Sea region. Led by Catholic rulers, churchmen, and, most ...