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Living in Denmark, Michael Booth sets out across the five Nordic countries to question their reputation as models of happiness and social success. Encounters and reporting explore national differences, everyday habits and less comfortable realities beneath the image of a Scandinavian ideal.
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Charles Duhigg investigates how habits form and operate in individual lives, organisations and social movements. Drawing on research and reported examples, he examines the patterns behind repeated behaviour and the conditions under which they change. The book links everyday routines with larger questions about influence and collective action.
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Pilar Eyre revisits women’s everyday lives in postwar Spain through magazines, advertising, newsreels and memories. Domestic expectations and public messages reveal the roles women were encouraged to accept. Humour and historical observation accompany this account of changing habits, aspirations and social constraints.
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Pilar Eyre examines the life of Queen Sofía beyond the formal image of public ceremonies. This biography traces the relationship between private experience, family obligations and the demands of the crown. Eyre's portrait considers the personal cost of a royal role through childhood, marriage and the tensions between public duty and individual happiness.
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Siegel and Bryson present twelve approaches to understanding children’s emotions and responding to everyday conflicts. Illustrations and age-related examples connect their account of development with situations at home, offering parents a framework for discussing feelings, managing difficult moments and strengthening communication with their children.
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Rafael Santandreu examines how rigid expectations and catastrophic interpretations can shape emotional distress. Using anecdotes and examples, he presents his approach to questioning beliefs about success, relationships and personal worth. The book introduces a cognitive perspective on everyday difficulties and the possibility of responding to them differently.
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Yuval Noah Harari offers a broad interpretation of human history, connecting biological development with culture, institutions and technological change. Moving from early human societies to modern ambitions, the book asks how shared ideas have helped shape collective life.
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Nora Ephron looks back on family, journalism, friendships and the peculiar frustrations of growing older. These autobiographical essays move between vanished memories and sharply retained details, finding material in professional beginnings, everyday irritations and the pleasures that acquire new weight when time feels less abundant.
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This handbook condenses the academies’ larger Spanish grammar into a reference for students and interested speakers. It retains the original chapter structure and guidance on usage while presenting grammatical analysis more accessibly. The result surveys the structures and variation of contemporary Spanish across its speaking communities.
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Looking back on his adolescent experience of cancer, Albert Espinosa explores the people and encounters that changed his understanding of life. Memory and reflection meet in an account of friendship, loss and the distinctive bonds he calls “yellows”, extending beyond illness into everyday relationships.
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Reyes Monforte reconstructs the experience of María Galera, a Spanish woman who follows her Afghan husband from London to Afghanistan. Trapped under Taliban rule, she seeks help through a radio programme. Her story traces the collision between family attachment, restrictions on women and the urgent search for a way home.
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Selected by María Jesús Pablo Gimeno, this anthology follows the different strands of Pedro García Cabrera's writing. Poems appear alongside essays, critical articles, three stories and a scene from his sole play. The selection offers an introduction to the Canarian author's literary range and to the intellectual and aesthetic concerns running through his work.
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Slash recounts his early life and his path through the Los Angeles music scene to Guns N’ Roses. Written with Anthony Bozza, the memoir follows the work, excesses and personal tensions surrounding his career as a guitarist.
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Isabel Allende revisits the years following her daughter Paula’s death through the changing life of her family in California. Writing, grief, new relationships and domestic upheavals become strands of a memoir about sustaining affection through loss and reinvention.
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Nora Ephron turns the inconveniences of ageing into autobiographical essays about appearance, motherhood, relationships and life in New York. Everyday objects and routines become occasions for reflection, as she moves between practical complaints, personal memories and the pleasures that survive the passing of time.
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Jaume Soler and M. Mercè Conangla examine the relationship between parents and children through their concept of emotional ecology. Stories and examples support a discussion of affection, responsibility and independence. The authors ask how family bonds can prepare children to build lives of their own.
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After divorce and an unhappy relationship, Elizabeth Gilbert leaves her familiar life for a year abroad. Time in Italy, India and Bali becomes a framework for exploring pleasure, spiritual practice and emotional balance. Her memoir follows that search through encounters, routines and the difficulties of beginning again.
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Rolf Potts explores extended independent travel as a way of arranging time, work and personal priorities. Practical discussions cover saving money, preparing to leave, adapting abroad and returning home. Alongside those decisions, he considers the attitudes that distinguish sustained exploration from simply collecting destinations.
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After achieving international recognition as a model, Waris Dirie returns to her Somali roots and to the family she left behind. This memoir explores the pull of home, the distance created by migration and the difficulty of reconciling affection for a culture with criticism of its traditions.
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Mineko Iwasaki recounts her upbringing and artistic training in Kyoto’s geisha world, from childhood in the Iwasaki household to professional prominence. Her memoir describes the discipline and expectations behind public performances, as well as the choices that led her to retire at twenty-nine.
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