Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso. Libros I-II

La trilogía de La Santa Juana pertenece al teatro hagiográfico de Tirso de Molina. Aquí se relatan diferentes episodios de la vida de Santa Juana, desde su conflicto inicial con la vida profana y la religiosa hasta su visión casi epifánica de los sucesos terrenales. La obra tiene además un trasfondo mundano en el que destacan personajes como el emperador Carlos V.

En este libro, Seligman nos provee de las herramientas para identificar nuestros aspectos más positivos y desarrollarlos, a fin de mejorar sensiblemente nuestra vida y las de los que nos rodean. En lugar de centrarse, como la psicología tradicional, en el estudio y tratamiento de la enfermedad mental, la Psicología Positiva pone el foco en las fortalezas humanas, las que nos permiten aprender, disfrutar, ser alegres, generosos, solidarios y optimistas. El doctor Martin E. P. Seligman, eminente investigador de la psique humana y fundador de esta corriente científica, sostiene que la...

Damián Tabarovsky launches a broadside against the state of modern Argentinean literary culture in this harsh, belligerent critique. There are few the author doesn’t take to task; he rails against the market and academic institutions for concerning themselves only with profit and against authors of supposedly “high” literature who have abandoned experimentation in search of a greater audience. What Tabarovsky proposes instead is a type of literature that refuses to kowtow to standard conventions of language, plot, and genre—literature that is written with no particular reader in...

Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...