All About Love: New Visions

Serrano, Beatriz

Life can't go on like this - can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she's risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.And yet Marisa h...

Duhnam, Lena

In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, ...

July, Miranda

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July´s second novel confirms the brilliance of her ...

Feito, Virginia

"Sensationally unhinged" - SUNDAY TIMES"Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny" - CATRIONA WARD""Weird and wonderful" - LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIANWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the long...

Alice Oseman

harlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize,...

Roig, Montserrat

Spring, 1974. After twelve years abroad, Natàlia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona and her family. Change is in the air: revolution sexual, political and artistic is simmering. Franco may still be in power, but his death is only two years away. The younger generation write poetry, listen to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and talk of a freer future. The older generation, though, ca...

Hooks, Bell

En estas páginas, bell hooks revela cómo el patriarcado capitalista supremacista blanco impone a los hombres una máscara de invulnerabilidad que oculta heridas profundas. Aquello que a menudo se interpreta como fuerza es, en realidad, una armadura frente a un sistema que les niega su humanidad y los empuja hacia la alienación. Las rígidas expectativas de género y la falta de a...

Hooks, Bell

Tios durs és una crida insistent, des del feminisme negre, a desmantellar el patriarcat com a pas fonamental per a la curació comunitària. Després que La voluntat de canviar s?hagi convertit en un clàssic contemporani, hooks ens dona, amb la seva característica mirada pedagògica, la possibilitat de continuar aprofundint en la mirada crítica a la masculinitat patriarcal a Tios ...

Hooks, Bell

Hooks mostra als homes com expressar les emocions, una part fonamental dequi són. Un llibre pensat per ajudar-los a recuperar el millor de si mateixos.Tothom necessita estimar i ser estimat, fins i tot els homes. Però per conèixer l?amor, els homes han de poder veure les maneres com la cultura patriarcal els impedeix conèixer-se a si mateixos, estar en contacte amb els seus sen...

Hooks, Bell

Estar al margen es ser parte del todo, pero fuera del cuerpo principal», escribe Bell Hooks. A partir de su trayectoria biográfica dentro de una comunidad negra en su Kentucky natal y luego como estudiante y académica negra en el movimiento feminista, Hooks nos ofrece una mirada particular, al mismo tiempo desde dentro y desde fuera del núcleo del dominio capitalista, blanco y ...

Hooks, Bell

Hooks, Bell