THE LIVING MOUNTAIN. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY ROBERT MACFARLANE
Nan Shepherd Nature's mistakes · 2019
The living mountain It is a full book in which life, death, Body and touch coexist hopelessly. Composed somewhere between a natural history and a deep philosophical meditation, travel through exterior and icy landscapes, but also other interior and spiritual. As Robert Macfarlane acknowledges in the prologue, This book, simply, it changed him. We know that this is not an isolated case.. JAIME ORTEGA (Per(r)ear)
PROTEST! VIDEO GAMES FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
VY.AA. · Anaita Games· 2018
Protest! Video games from a gender perspective It is made up of twelve articles, ranging from the profuse analysis of the current situation to one's own personal experience, of women in the world of video games; either as programmers, designers, specialized journalists or gamers. An open door to discover an entire underworld of machismo and sexist symbolic violence and a brave demand for a place for anyone who is not a cis-heterosexual man.. Essential. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
LAND OF WOMEN
Maria Sanchez Six Barral · 2019
María, veterinarian and poet, looks back at the rural world to talk about the situation of women in this environment, highlight aspects that we do not know and ignore. Given the many questions raised, this text is born, beautiful, not exempt from the poetry that Mary already gave us with Field notebook (The Beautiful Warsaw). María raises the future of women in the countryside, without them, who have never stopped working, that have always been invisible, women who had to give up education or independence to work the land and take care of the family. María reflects on science and literature, as a whole, brings us closer to some of the problems of rural areas such as depopulation, the exploitation of natural resources or failure to comply with environmental policies. A more than necessary reading to raise awareness about working conditions in the countryside and how terrible it will be to lose everything that the earth has bequeathed to us.. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)
PRODIGY CHILD
Michael Kupperman · Blackie Books · 2019
Michael Kupperman restores and exposes for us his father's experiences, Joel, who was a child prodigy of North American television during the years 50. In this action of bringing to light a complete and early period of a life that was buried by memory in an act of mental self-defense, Kupperman Jr. discovers why our minds decide to block memories to avoid feelings of guilt or shame and how this has an unconscious but very important impact on our lives and the lives of the people around us.. MIREIA PEREZ (The Bathysphere)
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ROCK
Susana Monteagudo and Luis Demano · LITERA BOOKS · 2018
Since his birth in the years 50, Susana Monteagudo and Luis Demano review the history of rock, illustrating some of the most relevant milestones that have made the genre evolve to the present day: bands, essential albums and songs, styles, supports, festivals… a book full of information, data and curiosities, essential in any music lover's library. FERNANDO MARTIN
TU, CALLA!
Laura Huerga and Blanca Busquets · Raig Verd · 2018
This essay exposes the so-called Gag Law for what it is, a tool that criminalizes disturbing opinions and aims to eliminate any kind of dissent towards established power. Inoculating fear in citizens, ridiculously expanding the definition of terrorism, using hate crime to protect the police force or imposing penalties for conduct that, at most, should be considered controversial. All at the service of power and a specific ideology, as you can deduce from the smoke of specific examples that the authors list: rapper Pablo Hasél, the CDRs, l’actor Willie Toledo, the young people of Altsasu, Twitter user Cassandra Vera… S.M.
THE VALENCIA THAT WAS
Gumersindo Fernández and Enrique Ibáñez · shipyard · 2018
This Valencia of Gumersindo Fernández and Enrique Ibáñez has to be imagined. Because it is completely gone or only the remains remain. Like the towers and the office of the customs service of the old Aragon Station that remain in the roundabout of Plaça de Zaragoza. The Valencia that was tells us about convents, hospitals, brothels, palaus, farmhouses, factories, hermitages, neighborhoods and soccer fields that have disappeared, due to various circumstances, of the map of modern Valencia. We will discover that the New Portal, one of the main ones of the wall of Valencia, it was built to prevent travelers from entering the city through the Good Women's Gate, next to the brothel; the importance of the Olive Garden, cited by Cervantes in El Quixote along with other famous places of his time; that the Fund of Spain, considered the best hotel in the city, it was demolished to make way for the hideous glazed block of offices that now occupies the corner of Carrer de les Barques and Plaça de l'Ajuntament on the lot; that during the second half of the 19th century the current Passeig de Russafa became a local Broadway venue where some of the busiest theaters in the city congregated (Ruzafa theater, the Slav, the Lyric and the Serrano); o que el nom de la discoteca ACTV que va substituir l’antic Balneari de les Termes du al nom les sigles amb les quals s’abreujava la raó social Actividades Culturales Termas Victoria (ACTV). Rasqueu en este llibre i veureu ciments d’una altra època. S.M.
