About running a country at war, how cities and kingdoms came into being or regression therapy to a past life. pages to learn… and understand. Discover some of the essential readings for this summer of 2022.
His story is full of fragments. No one knows exactly what year Freddie was born or from whom Freddie received that inheritance. What everyone does know is that she is the one who has always booked the best actors in London. And so it will remain as the 20th century allows.
You don’t need glasses to see well. His parents are disgusted by him. Also a little sad. They try to please her and she notices it. They are not like the families of the girls she met at her private school or university. It’s just some Norman waiters. And you can’t fix it.
When no one is around, Letitia writes down what she sees in a notebook. And what you see is infidelity. Yours. Petru comes and goes, he arrives at night after a work trip, but Sorin, even though they are short on time, is always there. Letitia doesn’t know how to pronounce the word “divorce” out loud.
Meryem works in the Compliance department of a Canary supermarket chain. It is the largest in the archipelago. She’s a little tired. Everything, in general. That no one knows how to write his name and that they ask him if his name means anything. And above all, that his island only revives as a reminder of the vagaries of tourism.
Ellyn doesn’t go to school. He spends his days collecting cow dung on the family farm. What else is an English country girl going to do in the 16th century. To sing. He just needs a haircut and a new name. Your newborn sister, Agnes, will thank you.
Brigitta and Johan only obey orders. The voices in her head speak clearly: he must put on his braces, she must count the layers of puff pastry on the croissant. In Europe, the young couple does not find its place. In Brazil, life as diplomats takes on a different rhythm. Even 70 years later, her granddaughter, because of her, cries on her wedding night.
If you’ve been through the drama, you don’t have to smear it on screen at every opportunity. Billy Wilder doesn’t need his viewers to leave the theater on the brink of an existential crisis. He told Callista. Now that her daughters are grown and no one seems to remember her name, the songwriter finds a way out. Even when it’s music.
Manuele’s face will not occupy the folders of adolescents. He’s not handsome. He is forty-three years old, has a job at a publishing house and wears glasses. What he doesn’t have is a mother. Araceli died when he was a child. She was beautiful. And sing and Spanish. Featuring a trip to Almería, Elsa Morante’s latest novel is filled with sand, numbers and ghosts.
Remo has arrived in his new home. His aunts, Carolina and Teresa, took him in after the death of his parents. The boy opened the windows for them. They have been locked up in their sewing workshop for years. With the adolescent, slightly pregnant with irony, arrives in a small town in Florence.
Dawes was born downstairs. He was the son of a maid. In 1972 he placed an advertisement in the newspaper. The number of domestic workers in England had been reduced to over a million. He wanted to understand the reasons. More than 700 letters from former employees and former employers arrived in his mailbox. In 256 pages, the anecdotes unravel the hypothesis.
The story of the president of a country that shouted to the world that he needed help, and also that of a president who put on a helmet and walked through the trenches of a muddy Ukraine. Volodimir Oleksandrovich Zelensky is without a doubt the man of the year.
Eliminating the superfluous that hinders our steps and focusing on what is important is the goal of the Barcelona writer Josef Ajram, who tells us about a new way of knowledge; the complete connection between body and mind and how to make our passion our work.
The foundations of quantum mechanics were a turning point that split human history in two: when we found that everything obeyed fixed laws that enabled us to understand the world, and when we discovered that beyond our senses there are forces that are not can be measured.
Planning has become an essential element so that both our diet and lifestyle are not overrun with immediacy. Pablo Ojeda and Salomé García offer us guidelines to organize our heads and our refrigerator.
Yuval Noah Harari, one of today’s foremost historians, helps us understand questions such as: How did our species manage to triumph in the struggle for existence? Why did our ancestors come together to found cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations or human rights?
Wiest states in his international bestseller that many of the “best” people in the world understood that they had to change their mind to change their lives. In these essays, which are currently available in English, he presents us with the challenge of getting started.
Madrid psychiatrist Benito Peral proposes the challenge of learning how we work to avoid uncertainty and with it all the emotional suffering we carry with us. The author’s maxim: seeking the happiness of the other, we find our own.
From the Birth of Western Philosophy to the End of Greek Thought. In this book, Carmen Sabalete sets out the approaches of the major classical philosophers and the impact their ideas have on contemporary thinking.
Miguel Ángel Sabadell collects the inventions that have contributed decisively to the development of our societies. Who is responsible for improving standards and extending the life expectancy of individuals?
The true story of psychiatrist Brian Weiss with one of his patients whom he facilitated a regression to her past life. A meeting place between science and metaphysics. The American doctor has performed this practice on more than four thousand patients in his office in Miami.
Source: Marie Claire
