In the dark, by Antonio Pampliega

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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 ...

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Hooligan by Philipp Winkler

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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 ...

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The Ides of October, by Josep Borrell

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The essay of a subject from within requires an undeniable exercise of introspection without fuss to pull out what may be true. In this case, Josep Borrell presents his essay The Ides of October with the soon-discovered claim of delving into the failure of a mechanism ...

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Against populism, by José María Lassalle

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Populism is the triumph of noise. And in a certain way it is the grave that the traditional political parties themselves dig for themselves thanks to their lukewarmness, their half-truths, their corruption, their post-truth, their interference in other powers and even in the fourth estate and their statistical figures ...

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What Happened to Us, Spain, by Fernando Ónega

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Subtitle: From illusion to disenchantment. And of that transition that this subtitle points to, beyond the historical Transition, there is much. A disenchantment with the work of political engineering that we were left perched for the elections of June 15, 1977. What seemed like a twinning has ...

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Your consumption can change the world, by Brenda Chávez

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From time to time I go around the current books and rescue those that evoke something about our society that is out of the ordinary, that raises critical thinking amid so much easy wandering, so much self-help for self-problems and so much unsubstantiality. I looked at the book ...

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Conspiracies, by Jesús Cintora

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Reality surpasses fiction. Hence, in this case, I took a leap in my reading tendency of black, historical, intimate or fantasy novels, to fully introduce myself into politics and current affairs, a kind of science fiction with touches of thriller where citizens browse ...

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