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El lugar más feliz del mundo es como el dictador de Corea del Norte describe la más brutal y despótica tiranía de nuestro tiempo. También es una de las paradas del corresponsal de El Mundo en un viaje que le lleva a adentrarse en la prisión camboyana donde cumplen condena los pederastas más peligrosos, ser testigo de la llegada de la televisión al reino de Bután, acompañar a un grupo de mafiosos yakuza en su intento de abandonar el hampa o permanecer en la desierta ciudad de Fukushima tras el accidente nuclear que mantuvo al mundo en vilo.

"Grandi menti a confronto" è la nuova serie audio originale firmata Audible, dedicata alla divulgazione scientifica. La voce di Piergiorgio Odifreddi, matematico e scrittore, racconta e confronta le idee dei grandi pensatori che hanno segnato la Storia. Ogni episodio è dedicato a una disciplina scientifica o artistica e a due grandi protagonisti.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Poate că nimic nu ne pregătește pentru confesiunile brutal de sincere ale unui copil diferit de restul lumii, ajuns la maturitate. Patric Gagne a avut curajul să relateze cu lux de amănunte drumul de la inocență și deznădejde la maturitate și speranță. De la condamnare socială și respingere la prețuire publică și acceptare. Este vorba despre o aventură năucitoare prin labirintul tenebros al unei afecțiuni mintale care oferă, prea des, numai perspective sumbre. Dar apare o scânteie. Desigur, dragostea. E singura lumină călăuzitoare.

Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's compelling autobiography, written in 1888, just weeks before he succumbed to madness. Nietzsche's last great work, a fascinating and bizarre text, traces the development of his own philosophy and the thinkers who influenced him along the way.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of leadership and success: The CEO of Disney shares the ideas and values he embraced while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Robert Iger became CEO...

Wounded Healing: The Art and Soul of Surthriving by Jorja Jamison, PhD, LP is a powerful and deeply personal memoir that blends professional insight with lived experience to explore addiction, trauma, and recovery. The book interweaves Wounded chapters of her own story with Healing chapters outlining how she has learned to help others in their own healing journey.

The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men". John Perkins wrote that economic hit men (EHM) "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder".

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life, “one of the year’s most relevant and revelatory business...

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.

A beautiful, expansive memoir on food as a vital bridge between cultures, from the internationally award-winning author of Parwana. To truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them. This is a story of how food connects us all - not only at the table but to each other's...

In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Walter Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members and key colleagues from Apple and its competitors, this is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.

This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series. ** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 ** Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal...

Inside CDD Vault takes listeners into a different kind of Silicon Valley story — one balancing long-term growth with a mission catalyzing scientific progress for the greater good. Go deep into the hearts of the people helping scientists discover new medicines. Told through the personal journeys of team members — from executives to engineers to scientists — this book reveals the human stories behind the software, the values that shape the company's unusual path.

More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success. America’s most successful...

Seeing What Is There navigates the complexities of the psychedelic therapy movement, questioning its ethical pitfalls and motivations. Ultimately, Rex demonstrates that true healing requires more than just pharmaceuticals—it demands economic security, community, and social support, offering a powerful meditation on trauma, survival, and the potential for transformation.

A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story “I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all the...

Thirty-three-year-old Megan has the life she’s always wanted: a loving husband, two beautiful children, a meaningful career as a church music director, and most recently, her dream home. Then, she’s confronted with the news that her former high school band director has been arrested for child sexual abuse. The police are asking for anyone with information about the teacher to come forward, and Megan has plenty. But choosing to help the police means facing her own past, and that won’t be easy since she doesn’t believe she was a victim of abuse.

UNA PSIQUIATRA DIAGNOSTICADA DE PÁRKINSON COMPARTE 43 CLAVES PARA VIVIR SIN REMORDIMIENTOS Reconocido como un longseller con más de 350.000 ejemplares vendidos en Corea del Sur, Si pudiera vivir mi vida de nuevo te invita a dejar de posponer tu bienestar y a prestarte la atención que mereces...

Embark on a captivating adventure through the Argentine Pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay with Gerald Durrell, the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. A riveting account of one of Durrell's expeditions in search of rare animals, The Drunken Forest is...