Homage To Catalonia

Ansary, Tamim

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age Traveling across millennia and cultures, The Invention of Yesterday argues that world history is a narrative we're constantly inventing. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of...

Mcdougall, James

A sweeping global history of Islam, tracing the 1,400-year evolution of a diverse community of faith and its place in the modern world "Anyone who wants to understand not just the past of Islam but its present and future should read Worlds of Islam."--Reza Aslan, author of No god but God From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. Over the spa...

Carrie Gibson

For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramatic stories are gathered in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own time. "Among the emancipators are the millions whose stories will never be known. ...

William Rankin

"This is it: the full download from a true genius of cartography. Radical Cartography will make you see maps, and, indeed, your place on the planet, with fresh eyes."—Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire. A stunning, thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world—featuring over 150 full-color maps in a gorgeous packageMaps are ubiqui...

Ansary, Tamim

"A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world" (San Francisco Chronicle) We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ot...

Mark Mazower

From one of our most eminent historians, a penetrating and timely examination of how the meaning of antisemitism has mutated, with unexpected and troubling consequencesWhat are we talking about when we talk about antisemitism? For most of its history it was understood to be a menace from the political Right, the province of ethno-nativists who built on Christendom's long-standi...

Orwell, George

Reunimos en este volumen los principales escritos que, junto a su clásico 'Homenaje a Cataluña', George Orwell dedicó a la guerra civil española, contienda en la que participó brevemente y que dejó una huella indeleble en su compromiso político y su literatura. No en vano, la experiencia de la lucha contra el fascismo y de la represión en el bando republicano marcó toda su prod...

Orwell, George

Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill, Dorothy suffers ...

Orwell, George

Uno de los ensayos más célebres y controvertidos de George Orwell.Publicado originalmente en 1940, En el vientre de la ballena es uno de los ensayos más célebres y controvertidos de George Orwell. Tomando como punto de partida Trópico de Cáncer, de Henry Miller, y la comparación entre la literatura en inglés de los años veinte (Joyce, Eliot, Pound?) y la de los años treinta (Au...

Orwell, George

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his self-esteem and...

Orwell, George

Este volumen es, por un lado, un acercamiento inmejorable para comprender la dimensión política de Orwell, su compromiso con la verdad, por más incómoda que resulte a sus adversarios, pero también a sus partidarios; y, por el otro, una mirada al lado más íntimo y frágil de su personalidad, con una selección de sus diarios escritos bajo la presión de las bombas alemanas entre 19...

Orwell, George

En sus cuarenta y siete años de vida, no hubo un tema que no tratara George Orwell (nacido Eric Arthur Blair) con acierto, claridad y valentía. Esta antología anfibia de ensayos lo demuestra. El volumen revela una de sus facetas menos conocidas, la de crítico literario, perfectamente consecuente con toda su obra. No podía ser menos, tratándose del autor que mejor desnudó los vi...