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At a weekend house-party at ancient Canonbury Manor, Alli is caught between fantasy and reality, past and present, in the life of Caroline Rand, a famous singer from the late Sixties, who reportedly killed herself in that house. Alli soon learns that evil infests the once-holy building. A sinister cabal controls it, as it has for centuries. Before long, her fate will be sealed, and she will learn about her role in the after-death of Caroline Rand. It begins with a chilling greeting: "Welcome to The Columbine, Miss Sinclair. You are expected."

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At a weekend house-party at ancient Canonbury Manor, Alli is caught between fantasy and reality, past and present, in the life of Caroline Rand, a famous singer from the late Sixties, who reportedly killed herself in that house. Alli soon learns that evil infests the once-holy building. A sinister cabal controls it, as it has for centuries. Before long, her fate will be sealed, and she will learn about her role in the after-death of Caroline Rand. It begins with a chilling greeting: "Welcome to The Columbine, Miss Sinclair. You are expected."

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At a weekend house-party at ancient Canonbury Manor, Alli is caught between fantasy and reality, past and present, in the life of Caroline Rand, a famous singer from the late Sixties, who reportedly killed herself in that house. Alli soon learns that evil infests the once-holy building. A sinister cabal controls it, as it has for centuries. Before long, her fate will be sealed, and she will learn about her role in the after-death of Caroline Rand. It begins with a chilling greeting: "Welcome to The Columbine, Miss Sinclair. You are expected."

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Desde que empezaron publicarse, las obras de Ayn Rand han tenido un notable impacto en la escena intelectual, política y social. Sus ideas se han discutido con pasión y defendido con ahínco durante más de medio siglo.En el universo randiano el tema subyacente siempre es la filosofía, con una nueva moralidad que aborda el individualismo, la libertad, y el rechazo a la vocación totalitaria de los estados y a los instintos tiránicos de aquellos que quieren imponernos soluciones colectivistas. Un desafío que todavía hoy sigue vigente y nos amenaza.Conocida como Objetivismo, su filosofía sostiene que la vida humana ?la vida apropiada para un ser racional? es la norma de los valores morales y considera que el colectivismo es incompatible con la naturaleza del hombre.En esta serie de ensayos escritos a lo largo de varias décadas, Rand se pregunta por qué el hombre necesita la moral. Y, su respuesta, define un nuevo código ético basado en la virtud del egoísmo.

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'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Beauvoir reimagines the dance between consciousness and the world outside in a Rouen café. Ayn Rand labours in Hollywood exile on the novel she believes destined to reignite the flame of liberty in her adoptive nation. Simone Weil, disenchanted with the revolution's course in Russia, devotes her entire being to the plight of the oppressed. Over the next decade, one of the darkest in Europe's history, these four philosophers will conceive in parallel ideas that would circle the globe in the second half of the century, reshaping it. The Visionaries follows in its protagonists' footsteps from Leningrad to New York, Spain at civil war to France under occupation, as each is uprooted by totalitarianism's ascendence. It shows them facing the injustices, unfreedom and unfathomable violence of their time as women, refugees, activists, resistance fighters - but above all as thinkers. Wolfram Eilenberger expertly distils the radical philosophies each lived as well as created, showing the two to be part of the same story, all testament to the redemptive power of thought.

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La filosofía no es un pasatiempo para adolescentes taciturnos ni para intelectuales que viven en su torre de marfil. Es una disciplina que aborda las cuestiones más importantes de la vida humana. Cómo queremos que sea el mundo en el que vivimos? Cómo podemos distinguir el conocimiento del engaño? Qué es bueno y qué es malo?En estos ensayos inéditos en castellano, que Ayn Rand escribió en los años posteriores a la publicación de La rebelión de Atlas, la novelista y filósofa encaró la raíz de algunas de sus principales preocupaciones: el poder para cambiar las cosas, la distinción entre el egoísmo racional y el ego caprichoso, la censura o la distinción entre el mundo natural y los logros construidos por el hombre.En Filosofía: quién la necesita, Rand muestra cómo las ideas abstractas tienen consecuencias profundas en la vida real y examina algunas cuestiones que siguen de máxima actualidad: la relación entre el igualitarismo y la inflación, entre el colectivismo y la

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"Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

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