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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.

Optimists have special armour that protects them against all difficulties: with the serenity one gets from an immersion in the silence of the ocean, who thinks positively is able to act on the fringes of dejection and find solutions in rough waters.

This book explains how to gain this armour: the diving suit of the optimist. It shows the reader a “survival kit” which includes the following tools:

– An antidote for each pessimistic idea, to which an optimistic idea is put before to face the situation.

– A gallery of characters that show with their example how a positive attitude can overcome all barriers.

– Advices and strategies to see the glass “half-full” and also full the other half.

– An attachment about endorphins, San Juan’s herbs and other friends of optimism.

To live is an art, an occupation, and requires conscience, love, and humbleness. We learn to walk, read, write, but we know nothing on the art of living well. Happiness is an achievement that goes hand in hand with personal development. It is not about finding new landscapes, but contemplating old ones with new eyes, in order to improve our emotional health and defend ourselves from stress, anxiety and depression so present in our times.

“El oficio de vivir bien” offers essential lessons of life which teach us to define our priorities, breath, recognize ourselves, and no to fear.

Journalist Gaspar Hernández invites us to discover the fundamental tools of the art of good living through his conversations with psychologists, philosophers, and experts on the fullness keys: Deepak Chopra, Joe Dispenza, Walter Riso, Pilar Jericó, among others, whose close and revealing speeches show us the questions that really matter.

If you know what is your place in the world, you will know what is your own and what is foreign to you. Occupy in a comfort and pleasant way is a matter of recognition and limits, regardless of approval or encroachment of others. In any case, seize the world and do not let the world take control on you.

This book points the way to do what you really want to do, to strengthen your inner world, defending your right to make mistakes and act to take responsibility for your actions, it gives you specific and practical guidelines for recognizing and responding to people intended on weakening your power and moving you into the shade: an unfair boss, a competitive partner willing to do anything, a manipulative couple, an overprotective mother or father, a plaintiff child or even a neighbor, a peddler, or whoever, who do you trust you are stumbling and fill you doubt your own abilities. You will see that the goal is to affirm the internal space and quickly learn to distinguish emotional predator, and thus flow like in outer space, network handlers also without conflict and, above all, not get away from you.

Amb Ulls de Nena (With Girl’s eyes) is the overwhelming diary that Encarnació Mantorell i Gil wrote during the Civil War, when she was barely a teenager. For seventy years, these documents have remained hidden in a closet in the Horta neighbourhood in Barcelona and therefore unpublished. But thanks to the work of the pedagogy researcher Salvador Domènech, they are now revealed.

The girl Encarnació was seventy years ago portrayed her everyday life on the rearguard: the lack of stock in the stores and the high prices of food, the shame of going out with shabby clothes, the euphoric moments and the pessimism arisen from the ups and downs typical from the war and the toughest moments of death, destruction and loss of her loved ones.

Encarnació still lives in Horta.