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Trips to the woods are family outings that can complement what children learn in school, reinforcing a respect for the environment and providing them with resources to enrich their free time.
The Way Home is the longest journey a human being can undertake. It is a reencounter with oneself, an inner search for one’s very own essence… Feeling, listening and identifying oneself fully with that fragment of the universe we all carry inside ourselves.
Written by Camille Saint-Saëns as a musical joke to share with his friends on carnival day, this is a highly imaginative work put into a different context to the original. For the youngest readers it is a beautiful illustrated book full of animals and handicrafts to make based on the book’s characters.
A critical look inside global finance which deciphers the characteristic jargon masking the reality of the casino which the financial markets have become, to reveal the mechanisms of speculation: the players (the financing banks, the investment funds, the large corporations, the ratings agencies); the chips they play with (mortgages, derivatives, basic foods, oil, arms, pollution…)
Carlota is astonished when a basketball player from the opposing team comes onto the field in long trousers, and even more surprised when she learns that she is doing it because of cultural and religious obligation. Her enterprising and always curious disposition lead her to start writing a diary about immigration and human rights.
Jerónimo Díaz, a young anarchist painter, living in exile after the Spanish Civil War, is asked to copy the enigmatic El Bosco painting 'Jonas and the Ballerina', a work which appears and disappears and which Philip II tried to acquire in the 16th century.
After the murder of his wife, Matías decides to fly to New York to follow the trail of his father, who abandoned him as a child. There, in the early hours, he comes upon the wonderland designed by his father, where tramps leave the streets to take part in a weird writers’ residency and sex shops form the cornerstone of a utopian project that aims to do away with money.
Aimed at fun for the whole family, this book is designed to introduce children to growing fruit and vegetables, and includes lots of information on different aspects: sowing seeds, watering, basic tools, harvesting, crop rotation, how to keep your veg patch healthy etc. It’s also a book about fun, explaining in detail how to successfully grow 20 essential crops.