Books: Non-fiction
Fossil mammalia
First published in 1842, this vintage book contains one of Charles Darwin's "The Zoo of The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle," a fascinating and detailed account of the research he did whilst abard the HMS Beagle between 1832 and 1836--work that played a key role in the concept of his scientific theories on evolution and natural selection.
Artificial havens
It is the name with which a series of essays by Charles Baudelaire are known published separately on two different dates. The first part, with the title "On the Artificial Ideal, the Haschish," would appear in the contemporary Revue on September 30, 1858. This article will then become the "Poema del haschisch." In him Baudelaire recounts his experience with the hash. The second part would appear in the same magazine on September 15 and 30, 1860 under the title: "Enchantments and torture of an opium dining room," then becoming "An opium dining room." This second part deals with the recreation of De Quincey's books Confessions of an opium and Suspiria dining room of depth.
The Myth of Sisyphus
The work is composed of four chapters and an appendix ("The hope and the absurdity in the work of Franz Kafka") that study, from approaches close to existentialism, that "absurd sensitivity" that seems to dominate much of the Xx century.
People of Japan
Pearl S. Buck, with his special gift to make the Westerners not only understand but feel empathy for Eastern life, now brings us closer to them. Here are the people of Japan: rich and poor, businessmen and professionals, farmers, students, aristocrats.
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84 Charing Cross Road
The epistolar collection of correspondence between an American writer and the employees of a London bookstore.
The witches
In the witches, a child and his grandmother face the terrible Witch Association of England while they, under the appearance of female leaders, celebrate their annual convention in a hotel.
Portraits
Truman Capote was a master of short forms and an acute observer and chronist of his time. The semblances that gather this volume are a good sample of both virtues. Capote writes about very relevant figures of our time, drawing a series of masterful portraits such as the one dedicated to the Japanese Marlon Brando walks during the shooting of Sayonara.
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Blind test
An epidemic that is characterized by producing a white blindness expands by a country without a name and highlights the most primitive behavior of the human being.
I said
Structured in six chapters - 'The land and its inhabitants', 'Paper worlds', 'Cinema is a century old', 'Goodbye to friends', 'The things of life', 'A life lived' - I have said that it reviews issues as different as the situation of Spanish farmers within the European Union, the manipulations of journalists, or issues related to ecology and nature.
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
Why do men talk and women gossip, and which is better for you? Why is monogamy a drin on the brain? And why should you be suspicious of someone who has more than 150 friends on Facebook?
From animals to gods
In animals to gods Yuval Noah Harari draws a brief history of humanity, from the first humans who walked on Earth to the radicals and sometimes devastating advances of the three great revolutions that our species has played: cognitive, agricultural and scientific.
Look at the lights, my love
For a year, Annie Ernaux has a daily visit to the Alcampo (Auchan) hypermarket in the Trois@-@ Fontaines shopping centre in the Paris region.