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1951, in the midst of Francoism, was inaugurated “The City of the Boys”, an Learning Home in the Collserola Forest for orphaned and resourceless children. But what was sold as an exemplary institution, a replica of an innovative project, turned into hell for many of those who lived there. Grandpa Emilio between them. There it lost much more than innocence, and still suffers the consequences in secret today. At least until the day he hit his grandson. What kind of person is a child who, when he most needs love and attention from whom he should protect him, only receives screams, punishments and ill-treatment? This is a history of resilience; on the lights and shadows, own or otherwise, that set the limits on care in the first and third ages; on collective beliefs that confuse education with indoctrination or respect for authority; but, above all, it is a call to compassion: the last possible and most important form of love. Lifeguard for all.

Gaspar Hernandez’s most personal book This is my most personal book. A narrative set that has the radio as its truss. In part, a radio memoir, from an early announcer: I started at the age of nine, when my father, an electrician, set up a home broadcaster. Thanks to the radio, I overcame my shyness. Since then, for more than forty years, I have spoken almost every day before the microphone. I wanted to pay tribute to the radio and the spoken voice, at a time when podcasts are once again playing a leading role. Maybe we’re looking in the voice for an authenticity that doesn’t have the image, or the telematic encounters. Perhaps the voice is the true mirror of the soul.

Shinto, Japan’s ancestral religion, also has numerous rites to attract money, love or fortune, and Buddhism or animistic religions from territories such as Okinawa or Hokkaid- or have their own rituals. How does each of them work and what deep history or meaning lies behind this belief? How can we summon good luck to our everyday habits? This book explores all the tools, some magical, other practices, mainly Japanese culture, to attract fortune and fulfill our wishes. In addition to learning the different rituals in an easy and motivating way, we will explore the essence of good luck and how we can incorporate it into our life with the appropriate habits and attitudes.

Would you like to make a separation that takes care of you and your children and build a full and blame-free life for all? We are the mother and father of two children each, we both carry out a conscious separation and together we have created our linked family. Separation is not harmful to your children, nor does it mean you have failed. What is harmful is the entire burden of fear, judgement, blame and limiting beliefs around it. When a couple’s relationship ends, the family doesn’t break, but switches molds, and you just need to know how to care for your kids in the process and how to make the return trip to rendezvous with yourself. Because your children need you happy, not living together. Linage, ego, cola children, emotional orphan, unlearning learning, automation. After reading this book concepts like these will accompany you so that you can separate yourself in a conscious and responsible manner. ‘

Anguish, nervousness, worry, panic, we’ve all been affected by anxiety sometime. Not for nothing is one of the most common mental conditions in the West, which can be presented as a simple nuisance but which sometimes turns into a huge black cloud that prevents us from living as we want.

Ferran Cases, an anxiety expert, invites us to explore the patterns that lead us to feel anxiety and teaches us how to change them. All this in small, affordable steps, which the author represents in the form of a scale of stages to be overcome. Step by step, will we learn to breathe, to calm our inner voice and to control catastrophic thoughts, to collide with the importance of physical exercise or mindfulness, to cultivate habits that will allow us to move forward? The way out of anxiety is to get to know ourselves and to change our way of interpreting the world, and you just have to have the courage to take the first step. In this new, completely revised and enlarged edition, Cases includes new exercises and five additional steps which, based on Stoic philosophy, will help us conquer the art of true happiness.