Títulos en Ensayos

---------“老いるショック”を笑い飛ばそう！--------人生後半は思いがけないことの連続です。すぐに息が切れる、立ち上がるのもひと仕事、転んで骨折……加齢現象という未知との遭遇は、前向きに老いを迎え撃つ大冒険の始まり。介護や認知症、老後のお金など、年とともに増えるさまざまな不安は笑ってはねのけましょう。

Gino Strada, chirurgo di guerra e fondatore di Emergency, l'associazione umanitaria italiana per la cura e la riabilitazione delle vittime di guerra e delle mine antiuomo, racconta in questo libro la storia del viaggio in Afghanistan iniziato il 9 settembre 2001, due giorni prima dell'attentato terroristico di New York. L'autore firma questo diario di viaggio che è al tempo stesso una testimonianza della guerra che ha portato alla disfatta dei talebani, la conquista della capitale da parte dell'Alleanza del nord e la "liberazione" di Kabul.

From the fleeting beauty of a moth's final moments to reflections on the nature of art, identity, and the human experience, Woolf’s writing invites listeners into her world of introspection, subtle observations, and profound insights. In this collection, Woolf navigates themes of life, death, creativity, and the inner workings of the mind with an unparalleled sensitivity that remains timeless.

Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.

Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes 22 of Montaigne's essays, including "Of Prognostications," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of Pedantry," and "Of Friendship."

"Restauración de la bóveda celeste" es una colección de ensayos y escritos críticos del destacado autor chino Lu Xun. En esta obra, Lu Xun aborda una variedad de temas sociales, políticos y culturales que afectaron a China durante el período de la Revolución Cultural y más allá. A través de sus agudas observaciones y análisis, critica el sistema político y social de su país, así como las tradiciones y costumbres arraigadas en la sociedad china.

Los más destacados columnistas españoles homenajean a su amigo y compañero David Gistau, el más brillante de todos ellos. Relatos, reflexiones sobre la profesión periodística, recuerdos sobre el amigo ausente, humor, autoficción… en una antología tan diversa, desenfadada y sorprendente como el perfil de estos periodistas que quizá a partir de ahora conoceremos como Generación Negroni.

Marcus Aurelius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Napoleon Hill are some of the most notable names in nonfiction classics. While these authors each come from very different time periods, their thoughts have been chronicled in the books that they wrote, and their advice has been followed by millions of individuals for centuries.

At the center of The Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a poem written by the 16th century Spanish poet and mystic St John of the Cross. Consisting of eight stanzas, each of five lines, the poem outlines the journey in pursuit of divine union, within which the only source of light comes from the soul. This recording in English includes the poem itself and St John's two accompanying treatises (1584-1585), essentially commentaries, which offer line-by-line explanations of the poem. Many modern listeners have found guidance and consolation in this work.

Nosotros, los colombianos, a nivel interno aún no logramos consolidar el proceso de paz, y por eso mismo este libro nos llega en el mejor momento, cuando necesitamos aprender y asimilar la gran herencia de Zweig en cuanto a alteridad, respeto y empatía. La paz y la educación son un solo...

El autor nos relata un proyecto de Universidad Alternativa que supera todo lo pensado hasta el momento pero que está basado en los datos estrictos de la realidad. En dos palabras, su proyecto consiste en la aplicación de los últimos avances de la telemática al viejo problema educativo, tan viejo como la propia organización social humana.

A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.

These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world. Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious,"...

Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the 10 best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city".

Here is Virginia Woolf at her most entertaining and informative, relishing the portraits and insights she presents as she surveys a varied collection of individuals in English society and English literature. In The Common Reader Volume 2, (published in 1932), the essay lives on and even more so in this sensitive and engaging book by Georgina Sutton.

A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches by Ruskin Bond, the masterly and compassionate chronicler of the small details and lambent moments that capture the essence of a meaningful life. By turns thoughtful, humorous, keenly observed and wise, these essays span more than 60 years of his writing - from reflections on companionship and solitude to lyrical yet finely honed appreciations of nature to nostalgic evocations of bygone people and ways of life.

How do we make sense of the Muslims of India? Do they form a political community? Does the imagined conflict between Islam and modernity affect the Muslims' political behaviour in this country? Are Muslim religious institutions-mosques and madrasas-directly involved in politics? Do they instruct...

"Come viaggiare con un salmone" è un libro di istruzioni. Istruzioni sui generis, date da un maestro d'eccezione come Umberto Eco per situazioni molto particolari: come imparare a fare vacanze intelligenti, come sopravvivere alla burocrazia, come evitare malattie contagiose, come mangiare in aereo, come viaggiare con un salmone al seguito (se te lo regalano e non vuoi rinunciare alla leccornia), come evitare il carnevale, come non cedere all'ossessione della visibilità, e molto altro.

En Mariano José de Larra, considerado el primer gran periodista español, conviven una imbatible actitud crítica, heredada de los viejos ilustrados de nuestro país, y el apasionamiento romántico. Pocos aspectos de la realidad de la época se escapan a su mirada, y su afilada pluma se ejercita en el escarnio de errores políticos, de vicios privados, de pecados nacionales, de lacras sociales.

La vista desde las estrellas recopila una gran variedad de textos cortos escritos en las últimas tres décadas por Cixin Liu, el mayor maestro de la ciencia ficción desde Isaac Asimov, gracias a su obra cumbre la Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos. Los ensayos y entrevistas que en él se incluyen explican algunas de sus experiencias como lector, escritor y amante de la ciencia ficción a lo largo de toda su vida. Asimismo, en sus magistrales relatos de ficción, asistimos a la evolución de su voz imaginativa a través de los años.