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An anonymous Majorcan writer of self-help books discovers that a sensationalist television programme has accused her of having committed a ‘careless near-homicide’. Her supposed victim is a young man, Teo, who was knocked out by a blow to the head from a rubbish bag thrown from the flat where the protagonist lived years before, during her first year at university in Barcelona.
It is necessary to offer companionship to people and their families during the last stage of life and train to do this competently if we do not want to become dehumanised. One has to respect the person, their values, beliefs, the people around them, their needs and desires.
In 1142, at sixty-three years of age, the philosopher, poet and musician, Pierre Abelard, the ‘Lion of Paris’, died; twenty-one years later, his lover and wife, Heloise, followed him. They were buried together in a monastery in Champagne and, since 1817 their bodies have lain in the same tomb in a Paris cemetery.
In the year 1337, Abu Isaq Es Saheli of Granada arrives in the city of Fez as Ambassador to Kanku Mussa, emperor of the Kingdom of the Blacks. After he is received with every honour, he falls victim to a plot against his life. In revenge, Fez declares war on the city of Tlemcen, with the covert aim of controlling the route of caravans.
The “Christ of Elqui” arrived at the mining offices of Los dones with his long black hair and Biblical prophet’s beard. This time he had come not just to evangelize, to preach his sermons for the good of humanity, but with a mission, too.
A story of adventurers who are, simultaneously, the heroes of some of the most brilliant events in the history of 20th century art. A mixture of fact and fiction.
Constantino Augusto de Moreas has received an invitation to visit Zaragoza University, after having spent his entire life in Cuba devoted to the scholarly investigation of the poet José Martí. But he decides to skip the congress and travels instead to Barcelona.
A collection of ten titles, liberally illustrated in full-colour by well-known international illustrators. The stories, which are full of humour, are written by Enric Lluch. The main characters are animals and monsters from the infant imagination, related to fear (the witch, the wolf-man, the ghost, the vampire etc.).