Andrea Soler i Núñez's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:19:18 -0700 60 Andrea Soler i Núñez's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction]]> 34749756
In this Very Short Introduction Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek provide an authoritative account of the nature of utilitarianism, from its nineteenth-century origins, to its justification and its varieties. Considering how utilitarians can respond to objections that are often regarded as devastating, they explore the utilitarian answer to the question of whether torture can ever be justified. They also discuss what it is that utilitarians should seek to maximize, paying special attention to the classical utilitarian view that only pleasure or happiness is of intrinsic value.

Singer and de Lazari-Radek conclude by analyzing the continuing importance of utilitarianism in the world, indicating how it is a force for new thinking on contemporary moral challenges like global poverty, the treatment of animals, climate change, reducing the risk of human extinction, end-of-life decisions for terminally-ill patients, and the shift towards assessing the success of government policies in terms of their impact on happiness.]]> 144 Katarzyna De Lazari-Radek 0198728794 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 currently-reading 4.09 2017 Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> <![CDATA[La Femme indépendante: Extraits du «Deuxième Sexe»]]> 2805090 Agrégée de philosophie, unie à Jean-Paul Sartre par un long compagnonnage affectif et intellectuel, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) publie son premier roman, L'Invitée, à l'âge de trente-cinq ans. Paru en 1949, Le Deuxième Sexe, dont on trouvera ici quelques pages marquantes, fit d'elle l'une des grandes figures du féminisme du XXe siècle et lui assura une renommée internationale qui marqua durablement sa carrière d'écrivain.]]> 140 Simone de Beauvoir 2070343839 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.98 La Femme indépendante: Extraits du «Deuxième Sexe»
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]]> Death of a Salesman 12898 'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'

Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?]]> 144 Arthur Miller 0435233076 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.58 1949 Death of a Salesman
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]]> The Passion 15047
In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects.]]> 160 Jeanette Winterson 0802135226 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 4.14 1987 The Passion
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]]> L'illa del tresor 56634250 Robert Louis Stevenson va publicar «L’Illa del Tresor» el 1883 i, des de llavors, s’ha convertit en la novel·la d’aventures per excel·lència, en la qual s’han inspirat tots els autors que han conreat aquest gènere literari. La magnífica traducció de Joan Arús i les il·lustracions de Yorick fan que la lectura d’aquesta edició esdevingui un veritable plaer per a lectors de totes les edats.]]> 304 Robert Louis Stevenson 847727259X Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.75 1882 L'illa del tresor
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]]> Les calces al sol 62640922
Els Bookland són l'antítesi del clixé clàssic d'una família americana. Intel·lectuals rematats, esperen que la nova au-pair estigui a l'altura del que exigeixen les ments privilegiades dels nens de la casa. I tot i que ben bé no ho estarà, la Rita i el seu caos constant portaran els petits Bookland a viure la vida més enllà dels llibres. La Rita serà capaç d'atrevir-se a tot, d'expandir la ment i un dia, de cop, trobarà el que hi havia anat a buscar: la seva vocació.

Les calces al sol és una novel·la alegre i vital, amb una arrencada a tot gas i un desenvolupament al mateix ritme, que parla sobre els canvis vitals que ens fan créixer.]]> 464 Regina Rodríguez Sirvent 8418226579 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3
en general el text es bastant cringe, sobretot al principi quan encara no thas acostumat al to del llibre (ple d cliches, castellanismes, frases gracioses/antisistema MOLT forçades, comentaris idiotes, to anti-intel·lectual durant la major part del llibre, etc.)

crec q aixo facilita q la protagonista et caigui malament pq es ella la q narra la historia... i sembla q el llibre es bastant autobiografic, o sigui q pitjor encara

en tot cas mha fet bastanta vergonya aliena i llastima tot el text pero en particular les parts on ella pensa/parla mes: bleda, infantil, amb tant prejudici, poc sentit d la responsabilitat/sacrifici, etc... costa molt empatitzar amb la protagonista

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clarament el llibre no mata, pero x una lectura rapida destiu no es horrible tampoc

...i tmb un recordatori q pq un llibre tingui moltes edicions o algun premi no vol dir q sigui bo 😬]]> 3.86 Les calces al sol
author: Regina Rodríguez Sirvent
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en total 3 estrelles x la historia pero lin posaria nomes 1 x com esta escrit

en general el text es bastant cringe, sobretot al principi quan encara no thas acostumat al to del llibre (ple d cliches, castellanismes, frases gracioses/antisistema MOLT forçades, comentaris idiotes, to anti-intel·lectual durant la major part del llibre, etc.)

crec q aixo facilita q la protagonista et caigui malament pq es ella la q narra la historia... i sembla q el llibre es bastant autobiografic, o sigui q pitjor encara

en tot cas mha fet bastanta vergonya aliena i llastima tot el text pero en particular les parts on ella pensa/parla mes: bleda, infantil, amb tant prejudici, poc sentit d la responsabilitat/sacrifici, etc... costa molt empatitzar amb la protagonista

en total:

clarament el llibre no mata, pero x una lectura rapida destiu no es horrible tampoc

...i tmb un recordatori q pq un llibre tingui moltes edicions o algun premi no vol dir q sigui bo 😬
]]> <![CDATA[The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity]]> 56269264
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.]]> 692 David Graeber 0374157359 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.19 2021 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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]]> Love Story (Love Story, #1) 73968
Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.

One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything.]]> 224 Erich Segal 0380017601 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.65 1969 Love Story (Love Story, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Smell: A Very Short Introduction]]> 52049783
In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Cobb describes the latest scientific research on smell in humans and other mammals, in insects, and even in fish. He looks at how smell evolved, how animals use it to navigate and communicate, and disorders of smell in humans. Understanding smell, especially its neurobiology, has proved a big challenge, but olfactory science has revealed genetic factors that determine what we can and cannot smell, and why some people like a given smell while others find it unbearable. He ends by considering future treatments for smell disorders, and speculating on the role of smell in a world of robots.

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]]> 144 Matthew Cobb 0198825250 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.93 Smell: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> <![CDATA[Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction]]> 61063621
This Very Short Introduction provides a new point of departure for our understanding of anarchism. Prichard describes anarchism as a lived set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how anarchists have inspired and criticised some of our most cherished values and concepts, from the ideals of freedom, participatory education, federalism, to important topics like climate change, and wider popular culture in science fiction. By locating the emergence and globalization of anarchist ideas in a history of colonialism and imperialism, the book links anarchism into struggles for freedom across the world and demonstrates that anarchism has much to offer anyone trying to envision a better future.

ABOUT THE The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.]]> 138 Alex Prichard 0198815611 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.69 Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> The Left Hand of Darkness 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]> 304 Ursula K. Le Guin Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.11 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
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]]> Freedom from the Known 143877 124 J. Krishnamurti 0060648082 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.29 1969 Freedom from the Known
author: J. Krishnamurti
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]]> <![CDATA[The Heart Goes Last (Positron, #4)]]> 17973071 Positron, her darkly comic Byliner Serial about life in a Big Brother America of the near future.

In the seemingly well-adjusted world of Consilience, it's dawning on the residents that they've thrown away the keys to more than their ragged former lives outside the high walls of their gated community. When they volunteered for this new social experiment, they also gave away the keys to their destinies, even their hearts.

Ask Charmaine and she'll tell you her husband is a dead man. Sure, marriage can be murder, but when Charmaine plunged a deadly hypodermic needle into Stan, because it was part of her job--dispatching undesirables in Positron Prison--Stan survived. His former jailer, a libidinous security chief named Jocelyn, had switched out the death drugs for knockout drugs and drafted him into a plot to undo the increasingly sinister social scheme. In so doing, she promoted him from her sexual plaything to full-blown subversive. The underground is housed in a manufacturing plant of one of Consilience's most successful products: sexbots, made to order.

Love, however, is not made to order, and despite a Darwinian labyrinth of betrayal after betrayal, including wild extramarital encounters and, yes, murder, Stan can't stop thinking about Charmaine. Not only because someone has requested a sexbot replica of her but because, well, she's home in a world without homes. In The Heart Goes Last, one of Atwood's darkest and most deviously entertaining inventions yet, the human heart proves more resilient and true than any mail-order machine.]]> 56 Margaret Atwood 161452081X Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 3.70 The Heart Goes Last (Positron, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Superior: The Return of Race Science]]> 42042093 Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of eugenicists founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.

Whether you think of racist science as bad science, evil science, alt-right science, or pseudoscience, why would any contemporary scientist imagine that gross inequality is a fact of nature, rather than of political history? Angela Saini's Superior connects the dots, laying bare the history, continuity, and connections of modern racist science, some more subtle than you might think.]]> 256 Angela Saini 0807076910 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.22 2019 Superior: The Return of Race Science
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]]> <![CDATA[Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction]]> 32569959
In this Very Short Introduction Tristram D. Wyatt discusses how animal behavior has evolved, how behaviors develop in each individual (considering the interplay of genes, epigenetics, and experience), how we can understand animal societies, and how we can explain collective behavior such as swirling flocks of starlings. Using lab and field studies from across the animal kingdom, he analyzes what drives behavior, and explores instinct, learning, and culture. Looking more widely at behavioral ecology, he also considers some aspects of human behavior.

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]]> 176 Tristram D. Wyatt 0198712154 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 4.36 2017 Animal Behaviour: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> <![CDATA[African History: A Very Short Introduction]]> 738854 Africa has been known as 'the cradle of mankind', and its recoverable history stretches back to the Pharaohs. But the idea of studying African history is itself new, and the authors show why it is still contested and controversial. This VSI, the first concise work of its kind, will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history.]]> 192 John Parker 0192802488 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.35 2007 African History: A Very Short Introduction
author: John Parker
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average rating: 3.35
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]]> Le premier homme 27779
Il avait jeté les bases de ce qui serait le récit de l'enfance de son « premier homme ». Cette rédaction initiale a un caractère autobiographique qui aurait sûrement disparu dans la version définitive du roman. Mais c'est justement ce côté autobiographique qui est précieux aujourd'hui.

Après avoir lu ces pages, on voit apparaître les racines de ce qui fera la personnalité de Camus, sa sensibilité, la genèse de sa pensée, les raisons de son engagement. Pourquoi, toute sa vie, il aura voulu parler au nom de ceux à qui la parole est refusée.]]> 384 Albert Camus 2070401014 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 currently-reading 3.91 1994 Le premier homme
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]]> El nàufrag feliç 61218839 176 Ramon Folch i Camarasa 8418908491 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.31 1959 El nàufrag feliç
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]]> Unformed Landscape 440836
Her journey begins aboard a ship headed south, taking her below the Arctic Circle for the first time in her life. Kathrine makes her way to France and has the bittersweet experience of a love affair that flares and dies quickly, her starved senses rewarded by the shimmering beauty of Paris. Through a series of poignant encounters, Kathrine is led to the richer life she was meant to have and is brave enough to claim.

Using simple words strung together in a melodic alphabet, Peter Stamm introduces us, through a series of intimate sketches, to the heart of an unforgettable woman. Her story speaks eloquently about solitude, the fragility of love, lost illusions, and self-discovery.]]> 168 Peter Stamm 159051226X Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.72 2001 Unformed Landscape
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]]> The Bee Sting 62039166 Brought to you by Penguin.

WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023
WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .

]]> 645 Paul Murray 0374600309 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.89 2023 The Bee Sting
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]]> Agnes 1129414     
At first, he works with Agnes to create a narrative that is most true to life, but as time passes and he grows more enamored with the narrative he has begun, he continues writing on his own, imagining a future for them after he reaches the present. Happy couples do not necessarily make for compelling reading, and as Agnes sees the unexpected plot he has planned for her, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur.
    
In this unforgettable and haunting novel Stamm incisively examines the power of storytelling to influence thought and behavior, reaching a chilling conclusion.]]> 152 Peter Stamm 3716022454 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.23 1998 Agnes
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]]> Shooting an Elephant 30557 Shooting an Elephant.

"Shooting an Elephant" is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as "My Country Right or Left", "How the Poor Die" and "Such, Such were the Joys", his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies, and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative, and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.]]> 368 George Orwell Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.07 1931 Shooting an Elephant
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]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.30 1925 The Master and Margarita
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]]> The Magic Mountain 88077
The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.]]> 706 Thomas Mann Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.12 1924 The Magic Mountain
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]]> On a Day Like This 2327202
On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him—but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves everything behind, sells his Paris apartment; cuts off all social ties; quits his teaching job; and waves goodbye to his days spent idly sitting in cafes—to look for a woman he once loved, half a lifetime ago. The monotony of days has been keeping him in check; now he hopes for a miracle and for a new beginning.

Andreas’ travels lead him back to the province of his youth, back to his hometown in Switzerland where he returns to familiar streets, where his brother still lives in their childhood home, and where Fabienne, a woman he was obsessed with in his youth, visits the same lake they once swam in together. Andreas, still consumed with longing for his lost love and blinded by the uncertainty of his future, is tormented by the question of what might have been if things had happened differently.

Peter Stamm has been praised as a “stylistic ascetic” and his prose as “distinguished by lapidary expression, telegraphic terseness, and finely tuned sensitivity” (Bookforum). In On a Day Like This , Stamm’s unobtrusive observational style allows us to journey with our antihero through his crises of banality, of living in his empty world, and the realization that life is finite—that one must live it, as long as that is possible.

Praise for Unformed

“Sensitive and unnerving. . . . An uncommonly intimate work, one that will remind the reader of his or her own lived experience with a greater intensity than many of the books that are published right here at home.” —The New Republic Online

“If Albert Camus had lived in an age when people in remote Norwegian fishing villages had e-mail, he might have written a novel like this.”—The New Yorker

“Unformed Landscape has a refreshing purity, a lack of delusion, a lack of hype.”—Los Angeles Times]]> 240 Peter Stamm 1590512790 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.50 2006 On a Day Like This
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]]> Blitzeis 1129417 German 135 Peter Stamm 3716022608 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.70 1999 Blitzeis
author: Peter Stamm
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> The Archive of Feelings 125080741
A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” ( New York Times Book Review ).

Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother’s house with the obsolete archive of the newspaper he once worked for, he looks back on days spent poring over files and clippings, increasingly withdrawn from the world. His occasional relationships never amounted to anything, and the memory of Franziska—who became pop singer Fabienne—continues to haunt him as she appears in the media.

When the two cross paths again, the possibility of a different life feels achingly real. But should he risk the comfort of his ordered existence for a romance that might never match what he imagined?

A subtle, mesmerizing portrait of late-blooming passion, The Archive of Feelings showcases Peter Stamm at his best.]]> 190 Peter Stamm 1635422760 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.42 2021 The Archive of Feelings
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name: Andrea Soler i Núñez
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]]> The Right to Be Lazy 24485 70 Paul Lafargue 1892355035 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.68 1880 The Right to Be Lazy
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book published: 1880
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]]> <![CDATA[Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction]]> 634834 160 Fred C. Piper 0192803158 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 3.56 2002 Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction
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average rating: 3.56
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rating: 3
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]]> Stoner 166997
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]> 292 John Williams 1590171993 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.36 1965 Stoner
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]]> <![CDATA[Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction]]> 31921
Beginning with a short history of science to set the scene, Samir Okasha goes on to investigate the nature of scientific reasoning, scientific explanation, revolutions in science, and theories such as realism and anti-realism. He also looks at philosophical issues in particular sciences, including the problem of classification in biology, and the nature of space and time in physics. The final chapter touches on the conflicts between science and religion, and explores whether science is ultimately a good thing.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.]]> 144 Samir Okasha 0192802836 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.92 2002 Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
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]]> Madonna in a Fur Coat 27793819 The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time.



'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.'

A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.



'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian]]> 168 Sabahattin Ali 014198127X Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.15 1943 Madonna in a Fur Coat
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]]> The Great Conversation 13643718 (131+xxx pp.)]]> 131 Robert Maynard Hutchins Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.13 1952 The Great Conversation
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]]> El porqué de las cosas 23126 144 Quim Monzó 843396819X Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.81 1993 El porqué de las cosas
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]]> Night Sky with Exit Wounds 30245389 Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects – love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire – and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: ‘…the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear.’ This is an unusual, important book: both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years.

‘These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. One of the most important debut collections for a generation.’ Andrew McMillan]]> 93 Ocean Vuong Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.02 2016 Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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]]> Flickor och institutioner 64665683 96 Darya Serenko 9188913635 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.83 2021 Flickor och institutioner
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]]> Lysistrata and Other Plays 1567 Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.

For this edition Alan Sommerstein has completely revised his translation of these three plays, bringing out the full nuances of Aristophanes’ ribald humour and intricate word play, with a new introduction explaining the historical and cultural background to the plays.]]> 241 Aristophanes Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.94 -423 Lysistrata and Other Plays
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]]> <![CDATA[Lettre à Ménécée (French Edition)]]> 30333321 Epicure, philosophe grec (342-270 av JC)

Ce livre numérique présente «Lettre à Ménécée», de Epicure, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes sections.

Table des Matières
-01- Présentation
-02- Lettre à Ménécée]]> 8 Epicurus Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.64 -300 Lettre à Ménécée (French Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tristan and Isolde (German Library)]]> 209238 Book by 320 Gottfried von Strassburg 0826403158 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.55 Tristan and Isolde (German Library)
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]]> Discours de Suède 401720 96 Albert Camus 2070401219 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 currently-reading 4.01 1958 Discours de Suède
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]]> <![CDATA[L ENVERS ET L ENDROIT / LES ESSAIS LXXXVIII]]> 130625578 0 Albert Camus Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 3.83 1937 L ENVERS ET L ENDROIT / LES ESSAIS LXXXVIII
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]]> Go, Went, Gone 36217818
Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us.

At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.]]> 339 Jenny Erpenbeck 1846276217 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.95 2015 Go, Went, Gone
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]]> <![CDATA[A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories]]> 48464 252 Flannery O'Connor 0151365040 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.17 1955 A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[What We Talk About When We Talk About Love]]> 11438 Alternate-cover edition can be found here

In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.]]> 159 Raymond Carver 0679723056 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.08 1981 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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]]> El fabricant de records 62814033
El fabricant de records és el viatge fascinant i ple de peripècies del fotògraf ambulant Valentí Fargnoli, que en les primeres dècades del segle XX, amb la seva bicicleta, recorre el país retratant la vida des de la costa fins a la muntanya passant pels petits pobles i les grans ciutats. En Fargnoli, a través de les imatges, construeix una memòria personal i col·lectiva de gran valor que estava destinada a desaparèixer. La seva trajectòria brillant el porta, fins i tot, a fotografiar el casament d’Alfons XIII, un fet que li canviarà la vida per sempre.]]> 296 Martí Gironell 8466429492 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 currently-reading 3.62 2022 El fabricant de records
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]]> Peacekeeping 25664555 Fieldwork

Mischa Berlinski’s first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews—Hilary Mantel called it “a quirky, often brilliant debut” and Stephen King said it was “a story that cooks like a mother”—and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now Berlinski returns with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world’s most intriguing country: Haiti.

When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He’s sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town’s complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. But when Terry falls in love with the judge’s wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster.

Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski’s gifts as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that is as fascinating as it is misunderstood—and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality.]]> 400 Mischa Berlinski 0374230447 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.70 2016 Peacekeeping
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]]> Norwegian Wood 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.99 1987 Norwegian Wood
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]]> Between the Acts 46105 224 Virginia Woolf 015611870X Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 3.63 1941 Between the Acts
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Andrea Soler i Núñez
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1941
rating: 3
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]]> The Subjection of Women 677591 136 John Stuart Mill 1594625328 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.91 1869 The Subjection of Women
author: John Stuart Mill
name: Andrea Soler i Núñez
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1869
rating: 4
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]]> Heartsnatcher 28377
Heartsnatcher is Boris Vian's most playful and most serious work. The main character is Clementine, a mother who punishes her husband for causing her the excruciating pain of giving birth to three babies. As they age, she becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting them, going so far as to build an invisible wall around their property.]]> 245 Boris Vian 1564782999 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.07 Heartsnatcher
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]]> Mannen på stranden 6715651 74 Henning Mankell Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 3.24 2006 Mannen på stranden
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]]> No Longer Human 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world … suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, … but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.96 1948 No Longer Human
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]]> Ballad of the Sad Cafe 35702073 La balada del café triste, se agrupan en este libro varios de los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana y constituyen incursiones en la silenciosa, secreta y sagrada intimidad del alma de sus personajes. Narrados con un prodigioso sentido de la construcción, los relatos de Carson McCullers alcanzan una resonancia interior que va mucho más allá de su sencilla y directa observación de la realidad. El mundo punzante, desesperanzado y profundamente poético de Carson McCullers constituye, en palabras de Edith Sitwell el legado de «una escritora trascendental».]]> Carson McCullers Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 3.25 1951 Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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]]> Go Tell It on the Mountain 17143
Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.]]> 256 James Baldwin 0141185910 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.07 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain
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]]> Giovanni’s Room 406235 178 James Baldwin Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.38 1956 Giovanni’s Room
author: James Baldwin
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]]> <![CDATA[Obra completa I (Nova edició, revisada)]]> 34259678 433 Vicent Andrés Estellés 8475029531 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 4.21 Obra completa I (Nova edició, revisada)
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 currently-reading 3.87 1955 Lolita
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sexual Life of Catherine M.]]> 414343 A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of sex stripped of sentiment, of a life of physical gratification and a relentlessly honest look at the consequences -- both liberating and otherwise -- have created this candid, powerful, and deeply intelligent depiction of unfettered sexuality.]]> 224 Catherine Millet 0802139868 Andrea Soler i Núñez 2 2.86 2001 The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
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average rating: 2.86
book published: 2001
rating: 2
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]]> A Rose for Emily 2984286 36 William Faulkner 1563127881 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 3.82 1930 A Rose for Emily
author: William Faulkner
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1930
rating: 3
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]]> All Summer in a Day 45306054 6 Ray Bradbury Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.99 1954 All Summer in a Day
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]]> <![CDATA[El cartero de Neruda: Ardiente paciencia]]> 102952 139 Antonio Skármeta 840138527X Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.64 1985 El cartero de Neruda: Ardiente paciencia
author: Antonio Skármeta
name: Andrea Soler i Núñez
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us]]> 31624963 A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences--what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"--create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.

In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?
Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum--reviving Darwin's own views--thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to, selection for individual survival. To explain this, he dusts off Darwin's long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons--for the mere pleasure of it--is an independent engine of evolutionary change.
Mate choice can drive ornamental traits from the constraints of adaptive evolution, allowing them to grow ever more elaborate. It also sets the stakes for sexual conflict, in which the sexual autonomy of the female evolves in response to male sexual control. Most crucially, this framework provides important insights into the evolution of human sexuality, particularly the ways in which female preferences have changed male bodies, and even maleness itself, through evolutionary time.
The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature's splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves.]]> 448 Richard O. Prum 0385537212 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.07 2017 The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us
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]]> <![CDATA[The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance]]> 723581 974 Ernst W. Mayr 0674364465 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.29 1982 The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> Steppenwolf 16631 Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".]]> 256 Hermann Hesse 0140282580 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 4.15 1927 Steppenwolf
author: Hermann Hesse
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average rating: 4.15
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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]]> Gun, With Occasional Music 16718
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.

Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.]]> 271 Jonathan Lethem 0156028972 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.77 1994 Gun, With Occasional Music
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]]> Collected Poems 111879 Collected Poems brings together not only all his books--The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows--but also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984.

This new edition reflects Larkin's own ordering for his poems and is the first collection to present the body of his work with the organization he preferred. Preserving everything he published in his lifetime, the new Collected Poems is an indispensable contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentieth-century poetry.]]> 218 Philip Larkin 0374529205 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.21 1988 Collected Poems
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]]> Slaughterhouse-Five 4981 Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. Just as Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”

Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing — the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit — that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.

Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.]]> 275 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.11 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
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]]> Cat’s Cradle 135479 Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...]]> 306 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.17 1963 Cat’s Cradle
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]]> Crime and Punishment 7144 671 Fyodor Dostoevsky Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 4.27 1866 Crime and Punishment
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1866
rating: 4
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600 pages of crime, 20 pages of punishment
]]> The Way of the World 191275 124 William Congreve 1406946303 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.35 1700 The Way of the World
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]]> Civil Disobedience 18626866 33 Henry David Thoreau Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.98 1849 Civil Disobedience
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]]> Walden or, Life in the Woods 16902 352 Henry David Thoreau Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.77 1854 Walden or, Life in the Woods
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]]> The Lottery and Other Stories 89723 302 Shirley Jackson 0374529531 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.04 1949 The Lottery and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life]]> 1865671 The triumphant true story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era—the mapping of the human genome

Growing up in California, Craig Venter didn’t appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing his advanced degrees, Venter quickly established himself as a brilliant and outspoken scientist. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, where he introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he announced that he would successfully sequence the human genome years earlier, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would— a prediction he kept in 2001.

A Life Decoded is the triumphant story of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. In his riveting and inspiring account Venter tells of the unparalleled drama of the quest for the human genome, a tale that involves as much politics (personal and political) as science. He also reveals how he went on to be the first to read and interpret his own genome and what it will mean for all of us to do the same. He describes his recent sailing expedition to sequence microbial life in the ocean, as well as his groundbreaking attempt to create synthetic life. Here is one of the key scientific chronicles of our lifetime, as told by the man who beat the odds to make it happen.]]> 400 J. Craig Venter 0670063584 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.72 2007 A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life]]> 17674969 240 J. Craig Venter 0670025402 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.80 2013 Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
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]]> Sabem com morirem 55647693 166 Paco Ignacio Taibo II 8416855684 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.14 Sabem com morirem
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]]> Yo no sé de otras cosas 58957605
Lea tiene 19 años, un ardor en la tripa y una vida entera en un pueblo con cuatro calles, una iglesia, un ultramarinos y un bosque que nunca ha cruzado. Sentada a la sombra, ve aparecer un señor que ha perdido a su perro y, en lo que dura un cigarrillo con hierba, le cuenta por qué ayer se acabó el mundo.

Lea tiene una hermana con la cabeza hueca, una madre que también se llama Lea y un padre que solo sabe de trabajo en el campo. Tiene a Javier, que no sabe hablar de amor, a Catalina, su mejor amiga, que llora, llora y llora, y tiene a Marco, que le deja regalos en el felpudo de su casa. Lea tiene ojos de campo y desconfía de los forasteros. Lea no sabe de otras cosas, pero de lo que sí sabe, sirve en todas partes.

Yo no sé de otras cosas es la historia de alguien que quiere conocerlo todo, vivirlo todo, amarlo todo, a pesar de que todos crean que el mundo se acaba. En su segunda novela, Elisa Levi ha asimilado con maestría la lección de los grandes escritores: no hay lugar más universal que el más pequeño de los pueblos.]]> 176 Elisa Levi 8499988857 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.20 2021 Yo no sé de otras cosas
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]]> The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 329866 32 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1419160222 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 4.14 1877 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Andrea Soler i Núñez
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love]]> 17601
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that.

With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.]]> 208 bell hooks 0743456084 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.35 2003 The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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]]> Catch-22 168668
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.]]> 453 Joseph Heller 0684833395 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.99 1961 Catch-22
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]]> Bullshit Jobs: A Theory 34466958 From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.

There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.

Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation.]]> 335 David Graeber 150114331X Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.02 2018 Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man of Reason: Male and "Female" in Western Philosophy (Ideas)]]> 997125 167 Genevieve Lloyd 0415096812 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.81 1984 The Man of Reason: Male and "Female" in Western Philosophy (Ideas)
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]]> Men Explain Things to Me 18528190
She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!”

This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.]]> 130 Rebecca Solnit 1608463869 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.83 2014 Men Explain Things to Me
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]]> Orlando 18839 Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.]]> 336 Virginia Woolf 0141184272 Andrea Soler i Núñez 3 3.87 1928 Orlando
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average rating: 3.87
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rating: 3
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]]> White Nights 1772910 82 Fyodor Dostoevsky Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.11 1848 White Nights
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]]> The Death of Ivan Ilych 18386
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 86 Leo Tolstoy Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.13 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych
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]]> Man's Search for Meaning 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.38 1946 Man's Search for Meaning
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]]> Der Richter und sein Henker 35090
Esiste il delitto perfetto? Gastmann, "demonio in forma umana", ne è convinto, e per dimostrarlo al commissario Bärlach - e vincere la temeraria scommessa fatta in una bettola sul Bosforo - getta uno sconosciuto dal ponte di Galata. Ormai i due sono incatenati l'uno all'altro. Per oltre quarant'anni il commissario seguirà imperterrito le orme di Gastmann, nel vano tentativo di fornire le prove dei delitti via via più audaci, efferati e sacrileghi che costui ha commesso per capriccio. Finché un giorno l'assassinio dell'ispettore Schmied della polizia di Berna - la città dove Bärlach è nato, e che lui chiama il suo "aureo sepolcro" - lo metterà nuovamente di fronte al suo nemico, e al sinistro viluppo di trame politiche e finanziarie di cui questi tira le fila. A Bärlach non resta molto da vivere: giusto il tempo di regolare i conti una volta per tutte. Ormai ha emesso il suo verdetto - ed è una condanna a morte. Quando Georges Simenon, che di noir se ne intendeva, lesse questo romanzo cupo, implacabile e lacerante, disse semplicemente: "Non so che età abbia l'autore. Se è alla sua prima prova, credo che farà strada".]]> 191 Friedrich Dürrenmatt 0395044995 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.75 1952 Der Richter und sein Henker
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average rating: 3.75
book published: 1952
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]]> <![CDATA[Demà, a les tres de la matinada]]> 32765219 Demà, a les tres de la matinada recull dos aplecs, Demà, a les tres de la matinada i Tres reportatges especials. Com en totes les seves obres, el lector hi trobarà abundantíssims motius de sorpresa, de reflexió i de diversió, car Calders sempre sap contar històries inesperades, insòlites. Amo i senyor del llenguatge irònic, tendre, sentimental, mofeta, amb una estima molt profunda pels seus humaníssims personatges, Calders ens ofereix la possibilitat d'una aventura, l'aventura de llegir-lo. Pere Calders (Barcelona, 1912-1994) es donà a conèixer amb El primer arlequí (1936). El mateix any publicà la novel·la La Glòria del doctor Larén. Reflectí l'experiència de la guerra a Unitats de xoc. S'exilià a Mèxic el 1939 i no tornà a Catalunya fins al 1963. Mentrestant publicà Cròniques de la veritat oculta, Gent de l'alta vall i Demà, a les tres de la matinada. Obté el Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la amb L'ombra de l'atzavara. Més tard en publica dues més, Ronda naval sota la boira i Aquí descansa Nevares. Guanya la Lletra d'Or de 1979 amb Invasió subtil i altres contes. També són premiats Tot s'aprofita i Gaeli i l'home déu. L'any 1982 apareix L'honor a la deriva. El 1986 li fou atorgat el Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes.]]> 145 Pere Calders 8415954085 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 4.02 Demà, a les tres de la matinada
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]]> <![CDATA[Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)]]> 33931
In Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology's signal contribution to human thought--the discovery of "deep time," the vastness of earth's history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor. He follows a single thread through three documents that mark the transition in our thinking from thousands to billions of years: Thomas Burnet's four-volume Sacred Theory of the Earth (1680-1690), James Hutton's Theory of the Earth (1795), and Charles Lyell's three-volume Principles of Geology (1830-1833).

Gould's major theme is the role of metaphor in the formulation and testing of scientific theories--in this case the insight provided by the oldest traditional dichotomy of Judeo-Christian thought: the directionality of time's arrow or the immanence of time's cycle. Gould follows these metaphors through these three great documents and shows how their influence, more than the empirical observation of rocks in the field, provoked the supposed discovery of deep time by Hutton and Lyell. Gould breaks through the traditional "cardboard" history of geological textbooks (the progressive march to truth inspired by more and better observations) by showing that Burnet, the villain of conventional accounts, was a rationalist (not a theologically driven miracle-monger) whose rich reconstruction of earth history emphasized the need for both time's arrow (narrative history) and time's cycle (immanent laws), while Hutton and Lyell, our traditional heroes, denied the richness of history by their exclusive focus upon time's Arrow.]]> 222 Stephen Jay Gould 0674891996 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.93 1987 Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
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]]> Ahora Que Es Tarde 3452919 Passar molt de temps
aquí.
– Se m'ha tornat un corrent
silenciós, que no veig, el temps.]]> 64 Joan Vinyoli i Pladevall 8429710531 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 4.00 Ahora Que Es Tarde
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]]> Salvatge Cor - Savage Heart 34833867 32 Carles Riba i Bracons Andrea Soler i Núñez 2 3.00 1993 Salvatge Cor - Savage Heart
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]]> A Streetcar Named Desire 12220 Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.]]> 107 Tennessee Williams 0822210894 Andrea Soler i Núñez 4 3.98 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire
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]]> <![CDATA[Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are]]> 39074555 One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we are

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA differences.

In Blueprint, Robert Plomin, a pioneer in the field of behavioural genetics, draws on a lifetime's worth of research to make the case that DNA is the most important factor shaping who we are. Our families, schools and the environment around us are important, but they are not as influential as our genes. This is why, he argues, teachers and parents should accept children for who they are, rather than trying to mould them in certain directions. Even the environments we choose and the signal events that impact our lives, from divorce to addiction, are influenced by our genetic predispositions. Now, thanks to the DNA revolution, it is becoming possible to predict who we will become, at birth, from our DNA alone. As Plomin shows us, these developments have sweeping implications for how we think about parenting, education, and social mobility.

A game-changing book by a leader in the field, Blueprint shows how the DNA present in the single cell with which we all begin our lives can impact our behaviour as adults.]]> 288 Robert Plomin 0241282071 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 3.96 2018 Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
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]]> <![CDATA[Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body]]> 1662160
Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik—the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006—tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.

Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.]]> 229 Neil Shubin 0375424474 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.02 2008 Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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]]> <![CDATA[A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes]]> 30135182
Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001, it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims, and myths. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals, but as epic poems. DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species.

In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about history, and what history tells us about our genes. From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be."]]> 419 Adam Rutherford 0297609378 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.01 2016 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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]]> <![CDATA[Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History]]> 42118857 A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species

When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human.

From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.]]> 352 Lewis Dartnell 1541617908 Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.14 2019 Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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]]> <![CDATA[Brush (Reading Rainbow 88) (English and Spanish Edition)]]> 1159076 32 Pere Calders 0916291162 Andrea Soler i Núñez 5 3.71 1986 Brush (Reading Rainbow 88) (English and Spanish Edition)
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book published: 1986
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Die Novelle des österreichischen Schriftstellers Stefan Zweig entstand 1910 in Wien. Sie exemplifiziert am Charakter der Irene die Freudschen Theorien zur Psychoanalyse.]]> 63 Stefan Zweig Andrea Soler i Núñez 0 to-read 4.09 1910 Angst
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book published: 1910
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