The history of Barça through its most emblematic objects as never before seen.Barça's Treasures explains and illustrates the basic facts of the history of FC Barcelona, through facsimile reproductions of exceptional objects from the club's history. It breaks with the traditional book format to allow the reader to hold these great treasures -which are an intimate part of the club's history- in a unique way. These important objects will make reading this work a unique experience.Reproductions of commemorative posters, tickets to memorable matches and finals, fold-out pages of the most emblematic shirts, stickers of the greatest players, the evolution of the …

Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, 1910) fought in the Spanish Civil War and was known as the poet of the people and the revolution. From a very young age his experience tending sheep and goats gave him a keen appreciation of the natural world and compassion for the farm laborer. He read voraciously and as a teenager published his poems in local magazines earning for himself the moniker of «the goatherd poet.» He made numerous trips to Madrid where he developed close friendships with other poets, among them Vicente Aleixandre and the Chilean, Pablo Neruda. After the defeat of the Republic, he …

Gonzalo Rojas (1916-2011) was born in Lebu, Chile, to a family of miners. As a university student captivated by Catullus and Ovid, the avant-garde poet Gonzalo Rojas fell in love with surrealism and jazz. As a diplomat for the Allende government in China and Cuba, he was condemned to exile and continued writing in the Democratic Republic of Germany, Venezuela and the United States. He returned definitively to Chile in 1994. He was awarded the Chilean National Prize in Literature (1992), the Reina Sofía Prize in Spain (1992), the José Hernández Prize in Argentina (1997), the Octavio Paz Prize in …

Octavio José Oliverio Girondo (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1891 / Buenos Aires, 1967), known as Oliverio Girondo, born in the same decade as Alfonsina Storni and Jorge Luis Borges, is one of the most noteworthy Argentine poets of the 20th Century. He was a key figure in the twentieth century Bonaerense avant-garde, specifically he was part of the Grupo Florida that worked together on the literary journal Martín Fierro. He was a poet of modernity, big cities, travel, technology, and modern alienation who always strove to renew poetry and find new modes of expression. He experimented with form and language itself …

Una versión japonesa de El silencio de los corderos con ecos a Emmanuel Carrère.Rika Machida es la única mujer en la redacción de la revista semanal en la que trabaja. Quizá por eso sea la única que consigue contactar con Manako Kajii, una mujer condenada a cadena perpetua por seducir y asesinar a varios hombres con la intención de usar su dinero para costearse talleres de cocina y comidas lujosas. Así comienza una serie de encuentros entre las dos mujeres que pronto transforman el interés inicial de Rika, meramente profesional, en una extraña fascinación hacia la supuesta asesina.Kajii no encaja …

The 20th century saw two great world wars. It was a century of crisis, as it was also of change and progress. However, he will be remembered for two huge human tragedies, in which groups of people tried to annihilate specific ethnic groups. This is the case of the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust.The Armenian Testament is a historical novel in which the circumstances, characters and places are collected, as well as the political motivations that gave rise to the so-called "Armenian Genocide" between 1915 and 1916. The protagonist is a fictional character, like many those that appear throughout …

La serie Horizon Carré por iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, la Universidad de Washington y RIL editores, se propone acercar al público anglolector, en forma bilingüe, selecciones de poesía de grandes autores de la lengua española en cuidadas traducciones, presentadas por escritores y académicos contemporáneos. En esta edición: Vicente Huidobro, uno de los más destacados poetas chilenos, junto con Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda y Nicanor Parra. Iniciador y exponente del creacionismo, es considerado uno de los grandes renovadores de la poesía en lengua española. Se relacionó con escritores de las vanguardias parisinas de hace un siglo como Apollinaire, Breton, …

A Brief History of Real Madrid told by a soccer-loving philosopherWhat kind of determination drives Real Madrid to be the best of the best year after year, and to achieve it with unusual frequency? How do you explain that it has been the most successful club on the world for a century and more? Maybe taking prestige so seriously increments the amount of expertise, since one of the substantial advantages of sport over any other competitive activity is that it does not banish the magnetism of war, in fact it is tamed by the rule of fair play. Maybe it's …

La serie Horizon Carré por iniciativa conjunta de la Fundación Vicente Huidobro, la Universidad de Washington y RIL editores, se propone acercar al público anglolector, en forma bilingüe, selecciones de poesía de grandes autores de la lengua española en cuidadas traducciones, presentadas por escritores y académicos contemporáneos. En esta edición: Alfonsina Storni, también conocida por los seudónimos Tao-Lao y Alfonsina, fue una poeta y escritora argentina cuya obra, vinculada con el modernismo, se caracterizó en los comienzos por el acento romántico y la sencillez pero después por una visión más oscura e irónica. Hizo incursiones en la dramaturgia. Storni expresó ideas feministas, …

* Younger children can also do gymnastics without getting bored, as long as parents, teachers, babysitters or siblings are involved and become their monitors. * It can be started at home, but if the weather is fine, it can also be done outdoors, preferably in a meadow or on the beach. The desire to play, which is never lacking in children, will do the rest. * This book offers you many useful tips and a host of games designed to develop children's motor potential and stimulate their imagination, imitation skills, balance, coordination, etc. * Each exercise is explained in detail …

¿Mentimos para sentirnos menos solos?Shibata es la única mujer de su oficina. No se puede quejar: es un trabajo estable y aquí nadie la molesta ni le hace proposiciones fuera de tono. Pero está harta de no salir nunca a su hora y de que sus compañeros den por sentado que debe encargarse de servir el café, limpiar, ordenar… Hasta que, una mañana anuncia que no seguirá ocupándose de nada de esto. Está embarazada. O eso dice.Diario de un vacío sigue el día a día de Shibata desde que anuncia su falso embarazo y recupera, por fin, tiempo para sí …

The usual daily stress of modern living means adults, and very often even adolescents, adopt tensed-up and faulty postures, which have a particularly negative effect on the horse. Here is a modern riding manual with a completely new training concept specifically designed to counteract the problem: * A perfect loosening-up programme, with relaxes and eases. * Complex rider’s movements are separated into individual movements for ease of practice. * These swinging circles can be practised in day-to-day situations as well on the physio-ball – the substitute horse. Erika Prockl is a teacher in further education and a certified riding instructor. …