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![Llibre: Joan Perucho i les edicions pop. L’aventura de Tàber, Julià Guillamon. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/perucho_portada_1100.jpg?itok=1mRPUaCk)
Perucho the pop editor is who is described in Joan Perucho i les edicions pop. L’aventura de Tàber [Joan Perucho and Pop Editions. Tàber’s Adventure]. This book, published by...
![Llibre: Claudi Montañá. Estoy hablando de mi generación (Artículos 1972-1977), antologia i pròleg de Josep Maria Ripoll. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/claudimontana_portada_1100.jpg?itok=D5UZk-J0)
Claudi Montañá was the most unique voice in music criticism in the seventies. Nobody could combine popular journalism with creative literature in their texts like he could. Josep María...
![El sostre de miralls de la nova estructura que acull i reflecteix les parades dels Encants Vells, ara ubicats a l’Avinguda Meridiana i tocant a la plaça de les Glòries. © Rafael Vargas](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/encants_foto01_1100.jpg?itok=xus56JeC)
Encants i miralls de Barcelona is a dream come true for its authors, the photographer Rafael Vargas and the writer Victoria Bermejo. Rarely, and without planning, can a project...
![La tradición cosmopolita. Un noble e imperfecto ideal, Martha Nussbaum. Paidós, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/expos_llibres_1100x548_3.jpg?itok=jl3KB4dK)
Nussbaum traces the genealogy of the cosmopolitan tradition, which is rooted in the response given by Diogenes the Cynic when asked where he was from, to which he answered he was a ...
![Cuando la riqueza se codeaba con el hambre. (Vida nocturna de la Barcelona de posguerra, 1939-1952), Paco Villar. Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2020](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/expos_llibres_1100x548_2.jpg?itok=zTC9EHKq)
The lights and shadows of the 1940s and 1950s in Barcelona, collected in Paco Villar’s latest book. From the restaurants Los Caracoles on the street Escudellers to La Puñalada and La...
![Barcelona, Fotògrafes/Fotógrafas, d`Isabel Segura.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/expos_llibres_1100x548__0.jpg?itok=FM9i7FT6)
For a long time, Spanish photographers saw their creative aspirations determined by the role society assigned to them. The book Barcelona, fotógrafas, by Isabel Segura – which...
![Llibre: Barcelona: títol provisional. Un viatge literari per la ciutat, Andreu Gomila i Diego Piccininno](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_1100x548_3.jpg?itok=Jk0Fklql)
Barcelona: títol provisional [Barcelona: Working Title] is a journey through contemporary Barcelona by means of its writers. Andreu Gomila and Diego Piccininno have asked a...
![Llibre: El carrer Montcada, Albert García Espuche](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/llibre_1100x548_2.jpg?itok=N3CkMUdg)
In La gent del carrer Montcada [The People of Montcada Street], Albert Garcia Espuche reflects five hundred years of life on one of Barcelona’s most iconic streets. The author...
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