Nonfiction Book Reviews
It can be lost, but immediately the concept must be turned to internalize and translate that shadow of defeat as learning. Undoubtedly a very successful title for a fighting book, but certainly extrapolated to any other field. My link with wrestling as a sport was born from a book ...
It becomes curious how humans are able to draw arguments to build countless stories, stories, essays or everything that comes our way. Our imagination and its creative derivative is capable of transforming everything. If suggestion finally intervenes as a stimulus, nothing will be the same again ...
Trying to explain what has been happening with the PSOE is not an easy task. The breakdown of the bipartisanship has atomized the vote, dispersing to a greater extent in the left zone of the voters. Faced with a right wing invaded by corruption, the emblematic Spanish labor party was unable to regain the ...
Between archeology and fiction. Everything that is still being investigated today about Nazism, continues to derive in rivers of ink. Perhaps it is to understand the incomprehensible, or to heal deep, organic wounds. The point is that such a proliferation of fiction or non-fiction literary works ...
The economy is an impossible balance between resources, markets and needs. Developed countries play trileros with these three variables. The global economy adds other variables to the game that are much more intermingled. Parallel to the global market, social networks establish a new playing field in which only ...
The Volkswagen scandal emerged as one of the great corporate frauds of recent times. However, the year after it became known about the manipulation of its engine software to falsify its information on emissions, the brand increased its sales. It seems as if the negative publicity has turned into ...
When the last album by Joaquín Sabina came out: I deny everything, lovers of his particular style, his undeniable lyrical gift, as well as his composer genius, we were quickly captivated by that musical and manifestly personal confession. Lyrics that sound like goodbye with an acid touch of mockery, like this ...
Everything I know about the children of Russia comes from what a neighbor once told me. He was one of those kids who came from the Spanish Republican side to the Soviet Union. But what my neighbor told me one day as a simple anecodtha, I know ...
Classical philosophy and its figures, brought from Greek or Roman mythology, remain absolutely valid today. Nothing new under the sun. In essence the human being is the same now as thousands of years ago. The same motivations, the same emotions, the same reason as ...
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this book was the movie Inglourious Basterds, with Brad Pitt as an instructor for a commando that was dedicated to persecuting Nazis (the direction by Tarantino complements the fiction with a good dose of gratuitous violence, in this case well ...
The profession of a reporter carries high risks. Antonio Pampliega knew it first-hand during the almost 300 days he was held captive, kidnapped by Al Qaeda during the Syrian war in July 2015. In this book In the Dark, the first-person account is shocking, agonizing. Antonio ...
The hooligan phenomenon has a much deeper social significance than it seems. In a society where group identity is completely blurred in favor of brutal individualism, the spaces to generate that necessary sense of belonging are reduced, in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, to disoriented gangs or ...