SPA-TENIENTE GENERAL DON PABLO

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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This book is the first comprehensive overview to address questions like "Which Spanish books were available in the Northern Netherlands during the 17th century" and "Which titles were read in translation". An bibliography of nearly 6.000 editions by c. 1.000 Spanish authors published by more than 1.500 printer in 150 European cities. Each entry indicates the book's location and owner and provides full bibliographical references. Con un apéndice de obras sobre América escritas por autores no españoles.

UN RELATO ESCALOFRIANTE DEL LADO MÁS OSCURO DE LA NATURALEZA HUMANA En su libro más poderoso e importante, el reconocido psiquiatra Robert Jay Lifton presenta un brillante análisis del papel crucial que jugaron los médicos en el genocidio nazi. Ganador del Premio al Libro de Los Angeles Times, no solo analiza el rol de los profesionales de la salud durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino que examina la estructura previa, cuando Hitler promovió la "eutanasia" de niños y adultos enfermos, y demuestra que la matanza supervisada médicamente se hizo en nombre de la "curación", como parte...