Títulos en Profesionales y académicos

Includes a new introduction written and read by Irvine Welsh When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously...

Aclamado como una parábola para los tiempos modernos, Erasmo de Rotterdam es la biografía de un gran humanista que, cuando se le pidió una confesión de fe, dijo: “Amo la libertad, y no serviré ni puedo servir a ningún partido”. En ningún momento Zweig menciona a Hitler por su nombre, pero es obvio que esta biografía de un hombre que trató de mantenerse por encima de la batalla.

David Hume es considerado el filósofo en lengua inglesa más importante que jamás haya existido. Sin embargo, en vida se le atacó por su escepticismo religioso, se le llamó el Gran Infiel y se le consideró inapto para instruir a los jóvenes. Adam Smith, en cambio, fue un profesor reverenciado de filosofía moral y a menudo se le ensalza como padre fundador del capitalismo. Lo más asombroso, con todo, es que los dos mantuvieron, según lo define Rasmussen, la amistad más grande que se conoce entre dos filósofos.

Aunque su existencia histórica se debate, es uno de los filósofos más relevantes de la civilización china. Se le atribuye haber escrito el Dao Dé Jing o Tao Te Ching, obra esencial del taoísmo. De acuerdo con este libro, el Dao o Tao (el Camino) puede verse como el cambio permanente y la verdad universal.

Marja Sklodowska, su verdadero nombre, fue una extraordinaria estudiosa química y física polaca, posteriormente nacionalizada francesa. Pionera en el campo de la radiactividad, fue la primera persona en recibir dos premios Nobel y la primera mujer en ser profesora en la Universidad de París.

Controvertido y famoso médico y psicoanalista francés, preconizando siempre el retorno a Freud, contribuyó a abrir el campo del psicoanálisis con referencias importantes a la lingüística y a la antropología estructural. Descubrió que el inconsciente se interpreta como un lenguaje y formuló una teoría del sujeto. En 1936 desarrolló su teoría sobre el "estadio del espejo", y publicó un número de artículos sobre su importancia en el desarrollo del sujeto.

Nine hundred years before “think for yourself” became a slogan, Pierre Abélard, known to English readers as Peter Abelard, said it out loud in a world that answered such talk with fire and the knife. He argued that we should understand in order to believe, not the reverse. He insisted that guilt lives in intention, not in the deed. He held that even saints and scriptures could be wrong, and that doubt was not a sin but a method.

Dave Thomas turned a boyhood dream of owning a hamburger stand into a worldwide success story. He proved that honesty, integrity, friendliness, and hard work never go out of style. Denny Lynch, Dave's close friend and former Wendy's SVP of communications, offers an intimate look at the man behind the apron, tracing Dave's rise from a determined young busboy to one of America's most beloved spokesmen.

Read by the author and father of young Jimmy and Stewart, Ten Thousand Jupiters, A Memoir, provides an intimate look at the world of childhood cancer in 1992. Diagnosed with what doctors at Texas Children's Hospital call, "the best childhood cancer," young Stewart pushes the envelope in cancer research by participating in a "conscious sedation" study that forever changes hospital protocols for young children during bone marrow tests and spinal taps.

"Misadventures In Small Business" shares humorous, personal stories and funny anecdotes from years of being a small business owner and manager. There are countless examples of employees, random strangers, or even the author doing things that would qualify as stupid or embarrassing.

From an ER physician and survivor of private violence comes a surprising, unflinching debut literary memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the emergency department—where her patients are wrestling with what feels unspeakable, and so is she. Told with dark humor and hard-won honesty, Dr. Anne Aspler brings listeners into the chaotic world of emergency medicine—and the quieter, messier work of healing her own past.

Lynette Charity’s grit, grief, and gratitude will have readers rooting for this timeless memoir about growing up in the early ‘60s South and overcoming all the odds against her to become a doctor in a time when the idea of a Black woman physician was practically unheard of. At nine years old...

Carl Sagan established that the surface of Venus is hot enough to melt lead, that the seasonal color changes on Mars are blowing dust rather than creeping vegetation, and that the orange smog of Titan is made of complex organic molecules drifting down onto an alien shore. He briefed the Apollo astronauts. He designed the first physical message our species ever sent beyond the Solar System. He also spent a portion of his youth calculating, for the United States Air Force, what a nuclear detonation on the Moon would look like from Earth.

He was not a doctor. He was admitted to the Academy of Medicine by a majority of exactly one vote, and once, after explaining to that same Academy where chicken cholera comes from, he was challenged to a duel by an eighty-year-old orthopedic surgeon who did not believe in germs and did not intend to start. Louis Pasteur also saved more human lives than anyone else alive in his century. The Invisible World follows him from a tanner's yard in the Jura to a crypt lined with gold mosaic, and argues that everything he did came out of a single stubborn conviction formed when he was twenty-five...

Catastrophic injuries. Immediate and total blindness. An innocent young life shattered at the hands of a drunk driver. This is an unforgettable account of turning tragedy into triumph. With heart wrenching honesty, humor and insight, Marcus Engel guides us on a path to self-discovery. This coming-of-age story will cause you to view obstacles as opportunities and discover that choices, not circumstances, determine ultimate happiness.

2012 stand Walter Stuber am Abgrund: Das Spezialgerüstbau-Unternehmen, das er mit seinem Kompagnon groß gemacht hatte, stand kurz vor der Insolvenz. Die Rettung kam buchstäblich in letzter Minute durch den privaten Kredit eines befreundeten Unternehmers. Dann der nächste Schlag: Walter...

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Im Frühsommer 1940 trieb die Wehrmacht Flüchtlinge durch Westeuropa. Wer es nicht nach England schaffte, suchte Zuflucht in Lissabon: Tausende warteten im neutralen Portugal auf ein Schiff. Britische Spione und deutsche Agenten belauerten sich, Rohstoffeinkäufer suchten große Mengen an Sardinen für Hitlers Heer zu kaufen und wichtiger noch: das seltene und nicht zu ersetzende Wolfram für Panzerstahl.

La storia di Giovanni Falcone è quella di un uomo che ha dato un senso profondo a ogni istante della propria esistenza. Talvolta allegro e festaiolo, talvolta austero, diffidente, Falcone era un personaggio incredibilmente complesso: un innovatore, un guerriero, un protagonista indiscusso nella lotta alla mafia e, nonostante ciò, un bersaglio pubblico, costretto a schivare un’infinita serie di attacchi.

Desde los años de su compromiso político juvenil en defensa de la República y a lo largo de su prolongado exilio, la política jamás dejó de nutrir la reflexión filosófica de María Zambrano (1904-1991), enlazándose con algunos de los motivos más persistentes y profundos de su pensamiento: la libertad y su indisoluble vínculo con la necesidad; la democracia concebida como un ejercicio de la formación plena de la persona; la diferencia sexual y su dimensión simbólica; la condición natal y la vulnerabilidad inherente a la existencia humana.