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Después dealcanzar elmillón deejemplaresvendidos, Javier Castillo poneenjaque al lectorensuquintanovelaQuieres jugar?Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince años aparece crucificada en un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigación del ManhattanPress, recibe de manera inesperada un extraño sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de otra adolescente amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotación: GINA PEBBLES, 2002.Miren Triggs y Jim Schmoer, su antiguo profesor de periodismo, seguirán la pista de la chica de la imagen mientras investigan la crucifixión de Nueva York. Así se adentrarán en una institución religiosa en la que todo son secretos y en un enigma único lleno de suspense en el que deberán descifrar tres preguntas de respuesta imposible: qué le sucedió a Gina?, quién envía la polaroid? y, la más importante; están conectadas ambas historias?Tr

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Este libro nace de una convicción forjada al compás de innumerables lecturas, hechas todas ellas con la libertad del paseante y la despreocupación del aficionado. En mí ha arraigado cada vez más la sensación de que los países, como los individuos, tienen un ADN y que si, también para ellos, se ha establecido una división entre lo innato y lo adquirido, su naturaleza profunda ha condicionado ampliamente su comportamiento en la escena internacional. No se trata, para mí, de creer en un determinismo genético para los Estados, pero en sus acciones, sus actitudes, sus respuestas, nada es explicable sin tener presentes también los resortes de su identidad, tal como ha influido en sus relaciones con el mundo. De ahí la búsqueda inconclusa, superficial, discutible, provocadora incluso del ADN de los actores que ocupan, desde hace medio milenio, la escena europea.

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"The friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave Miss Pinkerton’s school together, ready to forge their paths in the tawdry and cut-throat world of the early nineteenth century. The scheming, brilliant and ruthless orphan Becky is better equipped than any to scale the heights of Regency society. Amelia, however, is sweet, quiet and passive, and longs for nothing more than the love of the self-obsessed and raffish soldier George Osborne. Amidst the machinations and jostling for wealth and status, Captain William Dobbin, with his hidden love for Amelia, stands alone as a steadfast, selfless and dutiful man. Woven into the climactic events of the Napoleonic Wars, and set against a backdrop of gaudy elegance and merciless personal ambition, Vanity Fair is an epic and sweeping satire, and a landmark of English literature."

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Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her independence of spirit in the face of their declarations. Introducing readers to the fictional county of Wessex, Thomas Hardy’s fourth work of fiction was one of his greatest triumphs, both commercially and critically. Its tale of passion, jealousy and unrequited love is now regarded as one of the finest novels of the nineteenth century, and one of the greatest love stories of all time.

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El objetivo de esta obra es encontrar el alma de las empresas, pero cómo? No es fácil, pero es posible si se tienen en cuenta a las personas que forman parte de ellas, se crean contextos que permitan potenciar sus virtudes individuales, sacar lo mejor de cada una de ellas y se aprovechan sinergias. Siempre con una perspectiva sistémica que ayuda a ver el todo y no las partes.Para hacerlo todo más fácil, se presenta como una guía con múltiples ejemplos que ayudan a entender esa nueva mirada sistémica.

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Los textos que María Zambrano (1904-1991) reunió en " Hacia un saber sobre el alma " , publicados entre 1933 y 1945 en diversas revistas de España y América, recogen el germen de su pensamiento más original y el nacimiento de una de las fórmulas más afortunadas de su trayectoria intelectual, así como una de las cumbres del desarrollo de la filosofía de todo el siglo XX: la razón poética. Si la verdad " se nos revela " de alguna manera, es sólo a través del común ejercicio de la pasión y la razón. En este libro fundacional, en el que dialoga con Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset o Freud, entre muchos otros, la filósofa nos ofrece la trayectoria, el nacimiento, de la razón poética, llegado a mí casi a ciegas, en la penumbra del ser y del no ser, del saber y no saber.Introducción de Juan Fernando Ortega Muñoz.

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Libro iniciático que nos adentra en los meandros de un tema tan difícil como necesario: el alma. Harpur hace un completo recorrido por la cultura occidental para mostrarnos los lugares secretos en los que nuestra tradición espiritual halló un sentido

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En Astrología para el alma cósmica, The Pulp Girls, un dúo mágico que crea arte dinámico e inclusivo, te lleva de viaje por los fundamentos del zodíaco con su toque moderno y sus inspiradoras imágenes. Entiende mejor qué quiere y necesita tu signo mientras aprendes a interpretar la sabiduría que hay tras las estrellas.Ten a mano tu carta astral y aumenta tus conocimientos sobre tu Sol, tu Luna y tu Ascendente. Sintoniza tus vibras planetarias y descubre qué áreas y elementos combinan con tu signo. Descubre qué es lo que te hace una persona única mientras exploras cómo de profundamente estás conectada con tus seres queridos.Desbloquea las puertas de tu yo más profundo con divertidos hechos como:* Compatibilidad entre signos* Tipos de personalidad* Placeres no tan culpables* Los signos como géneros cinematográficos* Autocuidado para los signos* Y mucho más!

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Por qué los elefantes entierran a sus muertos? Por qué cantan los pájaros o por qué bailan las grullas? Aprecian el arte los animales? Distinguen la diferencia entre el bien y el mal? Experimentan sobrecogimiento y asombro? ...En esta nueva edición revisada de su célebre libro, Gary Kowalski combina historias conmovedoras con sólidos datos científicos para demostrar al hombre que las demás criaturas no son objetos insensibles desprovistos de sentimientos e intelecto, sino que también son seres pensantes que albergan sentimientos y tienen una vida espiritual interior.Gran parte de nuestra sociedad considera a los animales como materias primas, objetos de consumo o recursos para fabricar utensilios de distinto tipo.A los animales los usamos. Nos los comemos. Experimentamos con ellos. Ni nos embrujan ni nos deleitan, sin imaginarnos todo lo que nos estamos perdiendo.El alma de los animales es un libro elocuente y oportuno que nos puede ayudar a recuperar la conexión con las

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Ramón Gómez de la Serna es uno de los escritores más prolíficos y reconocidos de la literatura española del siglo xx. Creador de la greguería, cultivó la novela larga, la breve, el teatro y la biografía, además de artículos periodísticos y ensayos literarios que representan una iluminadora visión personal del arte dentro de la literatura española de vanguardia. La colección las puertas de lo posible. narrativas de lo insólito es consciente de la necesidad de realzar esta gran figura, que sobresale por su defensa constante de una poética contraria al Realismo y que ha tenido una influencia indiscutible en las literaturas hispánicas desde su tiempo hasta la actualidad.El alma de los objetos. Minificciones recupera, a través de una cuidada selección realizada por Rafael Cabañas Alamán, una parte representativa de las narraciones breves de dicho autor desde una óptica original que realza la importancia del objeto en su mundo literario. El volumen invita a disfrutar de un escritor de gran m

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Simbolismo de la Katana. El Seppuku. Esgrima y Aikido. Samurai el guerrero. Historia del sable, sus orígenes. Ceremonial, etiqueta y respeto al arma. Estrategia en el combate. El código bushido, el camino del guerrero. Una obra muy visual, ilustrada con magníficas fotografías y de lectura muy amena e instructiva.

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Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking escape and contemplating adultery. As Emma’s efforts to make a reality of her fantasies become more dangerous, both she and those around her must face the shattering consequences of her actions. Causing widespread scandal when it was published in 1857, Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece and one of the landmark works of nineteenth-century realist fiction.

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Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his self-esteem and taint his worldview, and his romantic and professional lives start falling apart, will Gordon be able to uphold his anti-money principles, or will he succumb to the lure of lucre and everything he stands against? First published in 1936, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is the author’s third novel, and one of his most outspoken works of social criticism. Partly autobiographical, it sits alongside Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as a reminder of Orwell’s lucid narrative style and his abilities as a politically and socially engaged writer.

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A unique edition containing two stories, both precursors to Flaubert's later masterpiece, A Sentimental Education

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First encountered in Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow, sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are now grown-up women living in the English Midlands at the time of the First World War. Each becomes involved in a love affair: Ursula with the misanthropic intellectual Rupert Birkin, and Gudrun with Gerald Crich, a successful industrialist. The contrast between the two relationships – the former happy and fulfilling, the latter tempestuous and violent – facilitates an examination of both the regenerative and destructive aspects of human passion, while the novel’s Alpine climax is revelatory of the intensity of close male friendship. Heavily revised by the author in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the controversy surrounding the publication of The Rainbow, which had been suppressed on grounds of obscenity, Women in Love appeared first in the US in 1920, with a British edition following the next year. Straddling the boundary between nineteenth-century realism and modernism, it was regarded by Lawrence as his most accomplished work, and is considered by many to be the author’s masterpiece.

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A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country and then report back to the club concerning their extraordinary adventures and experiences. Dickens’s first novel, The Pickwick Papers was an immediate success and caught the public imagination in a manner that few debuts have ever matched. Replete with colourful characters, fantastical anecdotes and a farcical plot, it catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to literary stardom, and is widely considered to be one of the great comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century literature.

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"Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy’s fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn. Jude, still hoping to earn a place at the university, travels to Christminster to work as a stonemason. Here, he falls for his freethinking cousin Sue, but with the pair living together out of wedlock, the pressures of poverty and social disapproval soon threaten to ruin their lives. Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society’s attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. The novel, which caused an immediate uproar on its publication, is now widely considered to be one of the great works of the nineteenth century, and the apotheosis of Hardy’s fiction."

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Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the betrayal of another’s love slowly begins to eat away at him, and Margaret’s memory has a power that can reach him from beyond the grave. The first of Edith Wharton’s works depicting life in “old New York”, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella , and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

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In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for ten days, Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary events and everyday life, leaving an indelible mark on the works of future writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. J.G. Nichols’s new translation stays as faithful to the original as possible while being written in a clear and eminently modern English, capturing the timeless humour of one of the great classics of world literature.

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Inspired by space exploration and the earthly delights of gardens and music, Alma Thomas created brilliant abstractions that place her among the most innovative American painters of the 20th century. Breaking from realism in the 1950s, she moved through abstraction and into expressionism before finding a niche in a mosaic compositional style and reveling in color theory. With vibrant works such as Starry Night and the Astronauts and Color Etude (or Spring Bouquet), Thomas improvised with light, color, rhythm, and an aerial perspective that interpreted her world in a new way. After over 40 years in education, Thomas retired and focused on her art, eventually becoming the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. With dazzling paintings like the 12 collected in this calendar, Thomas left her mark upon the history of Modern art.

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El ensayista y filólogo húngaro László Földényi disecciona las claves que permiten interpretar el célebre cuadro de Goya Saturno devorando a su hijo desde una óptica completamente novedosa.

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