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MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Look for E L James’s passionate new love story, The Mister, available now. Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start...

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” Finite games are the...

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The...

Hockey comes first. Always has, always will. I've got a one-year contract, 365 days to prove to them I'm worth the investment—which is why I need to stay far away from the woman across the hall. We know each other quite well, but she thinks we're strangers. I need to keep it that way. The problem is she's everywhere. Across the hall, on my laptop, bartending where my team hangs out. Micky is like a loose thread that I can't stop tugging. Then, one night, she steps in to do me a favor, and all my defenses get shot to hell. Now, I'm showing her the real me, but it might not be enough for her.

Los Ángeles, años cincuenta. Camuflada tras sus fabulosas mansiones y el glamour de los clubs nocturnos, la ciudad es un hervidero de corrupción y bajas pasiones. Una noche, una matanza baña en sangre una cafetería de la ciudad. Se trata de una auténtica carnicería, y sus oscuras ramificaciones atraparán a tres policías en sus arenas movedizas. Eclipsado por el éxito de su padre como policía, Ed Exley hará lo que sea para superarle y conseguir la gloria. Bud White, por su parte, vio cómo su progenitor asesinaba a su madre y es una bomba de relojería con placa y pistola.

Cremas hidratantes, jabones, serum, bloqueadores, tónicos... ¿cuáles son los mejores productos y cómo combinarlos para tener esa piel limpia y radiante? ¿Y si se requiriera de menos productos para cuidarnos? Estas y más preguntas nos acechan con regularidad, porque los mensajes sanitarios son confusos; y los de la industria de la belleza, contradictorios. En Si nuestra piel hablara, el periodista y especialista en medicina preventiva, James Hamblin, pone sobre la mesa soluciones duraderas y científicas.

No Orchids for Miss Blandish was crime author James Hadley Chase’s first novel, and an experiment in adapting American hard-boiled crime fiction by a British author. Inspired by James Cain and The Postman Always Rings Twice, it worked so well that it launched the former salesman’s writing career. He went on to write over eighty novels sold worldwide with a huge American, Asian and European following.

Henry James nació en Nueva York, el 15 de abril de 1843. Los James eran una familia de muy buena posición social y Henry era el hermano más joven del econocido filósofo y psicólogo William James. Vivió en Nueva York, Londres, París y Ginebra, y en 1875 se estableció en Inglaterra. En Paris, Henry conoció a Goncourt, a Maupassant, a Balzac; y se hizo amigo del escritor ruso Turgueniev.

It was supposed to be a fun weekend at our family cabin. I was going to surprise my husband, Mike, with a small get-together for his 40th birthday. Something is wrong, though. Mike isn’t himself lately. He goes out often and by himself, leaving me and our young son. Our happy marriage is fading away, and I don’t know why. This weekend is just what's needed to cheer him up. It’s what we need for us. When I get to the cabin and set up, I hear sounds coming from the basement. That’s when I see her. A young woman tied up and scared.

You think you know me. That's the way I want it. Making you feel like we know each other - like we could go grab a beer sometime - is part of my job. Maybe the most vital part. It doesn't hurt that I'm easy on the eyes, single at 35, and born richer than sin. My aesthetic matters much more than it should, but all the better for my worthy cause. And it's a worthy cause. I've made an art out of making you feel good, and my influence makes you want to be good. Good like me. You think you know me, but you don't. Everyone has secrets. Mine could cost me everything.

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.

Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the 20th century.

En este relato de Henry James, una mujer con una personalidad un tanto extraña y misteriosa, que dice guiarse por premoniciones, va a explicar la historia de unos manuscritos que son encontrados por casualidad y que contienen una serie de declaraciones comprometedoras, a un escritor que ignora que a veces la felicidad está tan sólo a la vuelta de la esquina.

Publicado por primera vez en 1987 "El desafío de liderazgo" es el manual de referencia para un liderazgo eficaz, basado en la investigación y escrito por Kouzes y Posner, las principales autoridades en este campo. Esta sexta edición de la obra de Kouzes y Posner es una actualización del libro que se ha convertido en "la biblia" del liderazgo y en un best-seller internacional traducido a más de 20 idiomas, con más de 2,5 millones de ejemplares vendidos.

Brought to you by Penguin. *NARRATED BY BBC RADIO 1 PRESENTER, GREG JAMES* A brilliantly warm-hearted celebration of the lost art of having fun When Greg James was ten years old, his nylon shell suit-clad idols the Chuckle Brothers ('to me, to you') signed an autograph (from them, to him) with...

Este relato corto cuestiona la moralidad de dos amigos dublineses, Lenehan y Corley. Mientras deambulan por las calles de Dublín, su diálogo revela un plan: Corley ha convencido a su enamorada, una criada, para que robe de sus empleadores y le dé el dinero a él. Lenehan, es partícipe del plan. Joyce pinta con detalle la atmósfera urbana y captura el lenguaje vivo de la calle. El relato culmina con la anticipación tensa de Lenehan por la señal de éxito de Corley, que llega cuando este último finalmente exhibe un objeto robado, simbolizando la corrupción y la explotación en las relaciones humanas.

She's back. We were kids the last time I saw her, but my innocent crush from childhood is full-grown now. And it's not so innocent anymore. She's a breath of fresh air from the series of one-night stands since being drafted into the NHL. I've only got one shot with her, and I'm not taking it for granted. I may give her the passion she's been craving, but she's the intimacy I've waited for my whole life.

Este relato corto narra las experiencias de un joven irlandés, Jimmy Doyle, tras una emocionante carrera de coches. Hijo de un próspero tendero que busca ascender socialmente, Jimmy se mezcla con sus amigos adinerados europeos, sintiéndose cautivado por su estilo de vida glamuroso. La historia sigue a Jimmy y sus compañeros mientras celebran los resultados de la carrera, derrochando dinero y sumergiéndose en el lujo. Durante una cena y posterior juego de cartas en un yate, Jimmy se va sumiendo gradualmente en la embriaguez y la ansiedad a medida que se juega su dinero.

Since the earliest days of the Great Crusade, Sanguinius - angelic primarch of the IXth Legion - was ever among the closest and most loyal of Horus' brothers. But the Blood Angels have long kept their true nature hidden from the rest of the Imperium, and when the Warmaster hints that the key to their salvation may lie in the ruins of a conquered world, the sons of Sanguinius race to claim it.

MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Look for E L James’s passionate new love story, The Mister, available now. When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their...