APRIL BOOKS 2018

agenda-urban-libres-Sexism-everydayEVERYDAY SEXISM
Laura Bates · Captain Swing · 2017
In everyday sexism, Laura Bates comments and analyzes the thousands of stories that women from all over the world share daily on the platform online of the same name. It gives shape to the many “small incidents” that are part of women's daily lives., to bring the word “sexism” down from abstraction and turn it into concrete and obvious examples that, yarn, give a dimension of the problem. S.M.

free-urban-agenda-Leonora-CarringtonLEONORA CARRINGTON. A SURREALIST LIFE
Joanne Moorehead · Turner · 2017
The author, journalist from The Guardian, He discovered by chance his relationship with the painter Leonora Carrington. Based on a series of visits to Mexico City., where his famous cousin lived, He traced his biography in this book that reads like an adventure novel and in which some of the protagonists of surrealism appear.; Max Ernst, Paul Éluard or Remedios Varo, among others. R.M.

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Patricia Highsmith · Anagram · 2017
What can be said about a classic that has not already been said?? Patricia Highsmith's books (1921-1955) They are part of the great tradition of the North American crime novel that has nothing to envy of its male colleagues., los Dashiell Hammett o Raymond Chandler. This volume collects the first five books of stories by the author of The talent of Mr.. Ripley. Guaranteed feast. R.M.

urban-agenda-books-Atlas-of-a-passionATLAS OF A SPHERICAL PASSION
Toni Padilla · geoPlanet · 2017
For football lovers fed up with millionaire contracts, players who believe they are demigods, mindless hobbies and sports media without brakes. A book about players murdered by STASI, the first football match in Antarctica, the birth of the Sierra Leone Amputee Sports Club... Extra-sports stories that reconcile you with the beautiful game. S.M.

agenda-urbana-libres-Cuadernos-de-kabulKABUL NOTEBOOKS
Ramon Lobo Peninsula · 2017
Ramón Lobo affirms that to be a good politician or a good journalist you have to tread the dust on the ground and look for others as free as possible from yourself.. He does it in a country that has never left war behind, Afghanistan, to tell us small stories that connect with the general story: women who play soccer without a burqa, the young juice seller… Smell, color and flavor, good reporting. S.M.

free-urban-agenda-Eat-and-get-fitEAT AND GET FIT!
Ramón de Cangas Morán · Oberon · 2018
This book aims to dismantle some of the myths that we have heard about nutrition and sports., analyzing everything from the typical diets proposed to athletes to the issues surrounding proteins, carbohydrates, fasting or supplementation. GINÉS J. VERA

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