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If you decide and venture to sail these pages, you will discover a universe as wonderful as disconcerting. Quantum theory is one of the most beautiful and astonishing of sciences. The rules it follows are mad in comparison to our daily life. They are counter-intuitive. As we sink into the quantum world, our beliefs about reality and our common certainties are questioned.

Sonia Fernández-Vidal — writer and PhD in Quantum Physics — and Francesc Miralles — writer and journalist — invite us to an amusing breakfast where Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg and other famous physicians will also be in attendance. Among muffins, toasts, orange juice and coffee, we will embark on a fascinating and revealing journey towards the origins of the universe. We will learn what a particles accelerator is used for, what God’s particle is, how things can be in two places at the same time… and we even will try to understand the mysteries of existence.

Does a science of seduction exist or everything is random and chance? After reading this delightful handbook the mystery will be finally clarified.

Its pages contain a complete course about the art of seduction, with theory and practical exercises, tests and even a final exam to check out if the new loving techniques have been assimilated. The authors analyzed numberless observations and quotations about this matter, from Plato to Erich Fromm, from Sofia Loren to Marilyn Monroe. They state, among other lush adjectives, that every woman carries an inner goddess that one has to learn to arouse. 

The most suitable situations, the cosiest places, the clichés to avoid, the aphrodisiac food, the weapons of massive seduction: a proper master to become irresistible.  

Love stories follow an elaborate protocol that has its peculiarities in each culture and which has barely changed over time: commitment, flowers, the use of something new, something old, something blue and something borrowed, the stag and hen parties, the coins, the rings, the kiss, the reading of holy books, the henna drawings, the Three Roses and the Three Letters, the crowns, the honeymoon…

In El protocolo del amor we offer a journey through the most significant habits and rituals of the world, forged in every country, community and village, and also mentioning the use of social networks, blind dates and speed datings, which allow us to find our true love among a million of possibilities, something that never happened before.

What is top secret in Spain and what is not so in the black hand from the USA? Was the CIA implied in the attempt against Carrero Blanco, in Franco’s succession, in the Spanish 23-F? Are the US fiddling with the politics and destiny of Spain ever since the Cuba War Of Independence and up to the Irak conflict? Is this country, or was it, or would it be Europe’s Puerto Rico? Or is this country the anti-American reserve in the West to pin the blame on centuries of inner demons and paranoia? How much truth is there and how much urban myth in the thorny and complex (and always fascinating) relationship between Franco and Nixon, Gonzalez and Reagan, Aznar and Bush? What do we have ahead of us with Obama now? Is it what we expect?

Anna Grau has written this book halfway between New York, where she is a correspondent for newspaper ABC, and Madrid. Her investigation has lead her to reach the bottom of the files where the ultimate official secrets of the empire are kept, and to intertwine the versions of the deep throats from both continents. She has been able to confirm through more than two independent sources (as required by “The Washington Post”) that truth is always stranger than fiction, by far.

Did you know that in Antiquity there was the sacred prostitution? That Church and State got juicy profit from the brothels of the Middle Age? That in Japan there are prostitutes who dress like stewardesses and pretend they are flying on an airplane? That in Moscow one can have sushi on a geisha’s belly? That in concentration camps there were brothels?

In this book we invite you to know the secrets of the most famous brothels in History. An invitation that, undoubtedly, will bring you many surprises. Artists, politicians and entrepreneurs have nourished the most selected brothels. Indifferent to what may be said, there they found inspiration and comprehension, their own version of love and a place to make a profit.

Brothel, whorehouse, house of prostitution, house of ill repute, bawdyhouse, cathouse, sporting house… Many and varied names to the place where the most secret fantasies come true. Since the Ancient Greece to the most professionalized places of the 21st century, the brothels are part, for good or for bad, of our History.