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María Begino is a young consultant who has been entrusted with an impossible task. Determined to carry it out in spite of everything, she adopts a false identity to infiltrate a client's business, assisted by her French ex-lover and a Swiss professor of psychology, with whom she forms a very special 'ménage à trois'.
A sentimental, literary novel, full of humour, passion and melancholy, 'La felicitat dels dies tristos' tells the story of Tabou, a university student marked by a family history as intense as it is complicated. Tabou falls in love with Elisenda, his beautiful, full-of-life classmate, who soon reveals that he can never have her.
In the middle of December 2009 the first murders in Hornachuelos leap from the television and newspaper headlines. Although at first the government creates a smokescreen around the violent attacks verging on cannibalism, the Crisis of the Double Murder explodes all over Andalucia with no one able to provide a swift response.
One of the main deficiencies of contemporary education is in the area of co-eduation on equality, without which girls and boys tend to continue repeating gendered stereotypes, functions and roles, thus reproducing gender inequality, discrimination and violence. Perhaps for that reason, we often ask if these girls and boys are more sexist that the generation educating them.
In the new 21st-century economic environment, characterised by globalisation and the drastic changes produced by the transition to the Information Society, companies must focus their efforts in improving competitiveness at an international level, with a clear commitment to innovation and the use of new technologies as the key factors in guaranteeing survival in ever more competitive and demandi
A wealthy woman decides to investigate the life of her only daughter, who ran away from home at a young age, apparently for romantic reasons. Detective Ricki Trullos is faced with a classic case of extortion and false appearances that don't make for a happy ending.
This is a book about the Sagrada Familia temple, different to all others that can be found in bookshops. It brings together conversations with an exceptional witness to Gaudí's human and artistic experience: Etsuro Sotoo, the elderly Japanese sculptor who arrived in Barcelona as a young man over 30 years ago and became fascinated by the mystery pulsing inside and behind those stones.
In 1350, when Europe is recovering from the Black Death, the future pope Gregorius XI visits the Tuscan painter Adriano de Robertis to destroy his last work, the blasphemous Bearded Virgin. On February 25 1970, the American painter Mark Rothko slits his wrists in his New York Studio.
The news of the possible closure of the museum has caused a real commotion amongst its occupants. With the aid of the stuffed lion, the mummy has decided to return to Egypt. But can anyone show him the way?