50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know
Sutherland, John
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'gen...
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Hawking, Stephen W.
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help non-scientis...
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A History of Western Philosophy
Russell, Bertrand
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume wor...
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A River In Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Ishikawa, Masaji
Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his fami...
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Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism
Ascherson, Neal
An acclaimed, award-winning book on a fascinating subject, recently revised and updated by the author, with a brand new jacket. The Black Sea is at...
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Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940
Clark, Lloyd
In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest milit...
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Buda
Chopra, Deepak
Con la maestría y la habilidad que caracterizan sus escritos, Chopra narra la apasionante vida del príncipe Siddharta, tratando de acercar al lecto...
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Caída libre
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
La crisis global arrastra la etiqueta de «Made in America». En este libro Joseph Stiglitz explica cómo Estados Unidos ha estado exportando sus mala...
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Che Guevara and the Latin American Revolutionary Movements
Pineiro, Manuel
New views on Cuba's solidarity with revolutionaries in Latin America; Insights from a key participant in these movements; Cuba did not 'betray' Che...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Perkins, John
With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup, environmental impact, and foreign policy are on everyone's...
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Conversations With Myself
Mandela, Nelson
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to ...
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Dead Man in Paradise
Mackinnon, James
In 1965, a soldier walked in from the outskirts of a town and reported that he had just shot and killed two policemen and a Canadian Catholic pries...
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Democracy in America
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they s...
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Diario de Anne Frank
Frank, Anne
El diario de Ana se inicia cuando la familia penetra en el refugio del "Anexo Secreto" en Holanda; pues debido a que es judía tiene que esconderse ...
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Dispatches
Herr, Michael
'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time.' John Le Carre 'Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total e...
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El corazón de Voltaire
Nieves, Luis López
Los restos de Voltaire, uno de los más importantes pensadores del mundo, fueron profanados hace más de un siglo, y lo único que se conserva de él e...
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El Culpable Voluntario
Madera, Osiris
En "El Culpable Voluntario" de Osiris Madera asistimos a una manifestación artística que se plastifica en un planteamiento filosófico. El discurso ...
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El Engaño Populista
Kaiser, Axel & Alvarez, Gloria
Axel Kaiser es un abogado chileno-alemán considerado como uno de los intelectuales liberales más influyentes de la nueva generación en Hispanoamérica.
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El Estallido Del Populismo
Vargas Llosa, Álvaro
Mario Vargas Llosa, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Enrique Krauze, Yoani Sánchez y Álvaro Vargas Llosa, entre muchos otros, abordan en esta obra el de...
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El Marqués de Sade. Una Vida
Gray, Francine Du Plessix
El Marqués de Sade está ahora tan suspendido en el limbo entre la leyenda y el mito, que el mundo casi ha olvidado que alguna vez fue un hombre, un...
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El salón dorado
Wallace, Irving
La idea central de esta novela se basa en hechos reales. Entre 1900 y 1910 existía en Chicago el Everleigh Club, el burdel más famoso y elegante d...
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Essays in Zen Buddhism
Suzuki, D. T.
In this collection of his most important essays, Suzuki explores a variety of topics, including the history of Buddhism, the daily life of a Zen mo...
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Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change
Solomon, Andrew
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—a rivetin...
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Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World
Nasr, Vali
Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital b...
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Griftopia
Taibbi, Matt
The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. T...
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Hagakure: El Camino del Samurai
Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
Una de las obras clásicas de la cultura japonesa, que guardaba celosamente los secretos, la filosofía, la instrucción y los valores del samurai.«El...
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Historias Robadas
Vila Torres, Enrique J.
De los años cuarenta a los noventa, miles de recién nacidos fueron robados en diferentes maternidades y ciudades españolas y vendidos a otros padre...
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Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
Higham, Charles
truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma. Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--fa...
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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
Bellow, Saul
Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifeti...
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Swofford, Anthony
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the mari...
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La Adivina
Wood, Barbara
Roma, 54 d. C. Ulrika, una joven de 19 años, es la hija de una sabia curandera que siempre le ha contado que su padre murió hace años en una batall...
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La Condición Humana
Malraux, André
Ambientada en Shanghai en 1928, en el curso de la lucha que opuso a los comunistas a Chiang-Kai-shek, La condición humana es una obra coral llena d...
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La Era de Trujillo
de Galíndez, Jesús
Cuesta imaginarse que un solo hombre pueda dominar, en forma absoluta y durante 30 años, la vida pública de una nación latinoamericana. No obstante...
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Madness Visible: A Memoir of War
Di Giovanni, Janine
From an internationally celebrated war correspondent, a searing firsthand chronicle–told with extraordinary immediacy–of the ordeal of the Balkan p...
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Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl, Viktor E.
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. ...
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Mao Zedong
Spence, Jonathan
From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak lead...
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