This brief tour illustrated by the history of philosophy and its protagonists charts a fascinating journey through the world of the ideas that have shaped our civilisation. Explained in simple and entertaining way, includes among many other topics the cavern of Plato, the evolution according to Darwin or Einstein's relativity theory, as well as all the stellar moments in the history of thought.
Illustrations by Purificación Hernández
Marta’s parents are on holiday, her brother goes his own way, and she is bored to death. But the visit of Pau, a distant cousin who is on a wheelchair and whom she hasn’t seen for a very long time, will turn her life into an unexpected detective story. A ghostly character wants to throw Pau out of the house where he lives: the famous Rotonda, a Modernist building at the foot of Tibidabo Avenue in Barcelona.
In a nearly future, a group of youngsters live paying attention to the changes that happen around them. When Gustau and his dog, Ombra, understand that the highly technological world where they are living leaves aside important things. Meeting together in an old quarter of a city in the throes of death, they plot how to help their friends. To do that, they need to embark on a difficult mission: recovering the trace of the forgotten ones, a persecuted group who doesn't accept the disappearance of a certain way of looking at the world.
Jordi Alell, a good student in his last year at high school, fails three subjects. Little can he imagine how this fact will change his life. The summer school that his parents look for, which they consider the best one for his son, will lead him, a boy unconcerned with his environment, to discover, in just one summer, an world unknown to him thanks to which he will become more responsible and will get him into adulthood. His school partner, Xavi, from the club of “the rich ones in school”, his teacher Mr. Frons, and very especially String, a young squatter with a very particular sense of life, will set this trip of Jordi towards a world of sense and sensibility, but also a world of trouble. This all happens during a summer in which Catalonia is devastated by an avalanche of forest fires that will symbolize this turn in Jordi’s life: a summer on fire.
Julia and her two friends, Jorge and Javier, one day witness the death of an unknown man. Before dying, he gives Julia a package and makes her promise she will deliver it to the mansion of the lake. The boys discover that the mysterious package contains a sculpture, the famous Maltese Falcon, which will remain for a few days in the hands of the three friends and force them to get in a very dangerous and exciting adventure.