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The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years...

Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

¿Cómo piensan los hombres? ¿Qué sienten? ¿Qué les preocupa? ¿Cuáles son sus miedos, preocupaciones y conflictos? Estas son las preguntas que este audiolibro contesta, con herramientas de la psicología moderna y otras ciencias afines, poniendo al descubierto al hombre educado en la...

Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.

The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of...

El nombre de Steve Jobs es sinónimo de innovación, liderazgo y éxito. Su personalidad arrolladora, su intuición para los negocios y su carisma hicieron de él un gurú de la tecnología, que logró convertir a su empresa, Apple, en la compañía de innovación tecnológica más importante del mundo. Walter Isaacson, autor de la célebre biografía de Steve Jobs, nos explica las claves de liderazgo que convirtieron al creador de Apple en uno de los empresarios más exitosos del mundo.

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.

For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The Dread Empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order...and bloody chaos. A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid - the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others - to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own.

As Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Walter Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. "I introduce people to their own world," writes Lewin, "the world they live in and are familiar with but don't approach like a physicist - yet."

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...

Muchas personas son víctimas de lo que Walter Riso denomina mandatos irracionales perfeccionistas o «antivalores exitosos». Estos mandatos pretenden que seamos «hombres y mujeres que han alcanzado el top 10», es decir, seres excepcionales en algún área, no importa el costo emocional que...

¿Cómo crear y promover estilos de vida más saludables y felices? Walter Riso encuentra la respuesta en filósofos como Sócrates, Epicuro, Diógenes y Epicteto, quienes buscaban «saber vivir» y llevaron una vida coherente con las ideas que predicaban. De manera clara y sencilla, el autor...

The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?

Como fiel reflejo de la sociedad en que se desarrolla, la literatura muestra los cambios y terrenos que ha ganado la mujer a lo largo de la historia. Aún queda mucho camino que recorrer pero Medea, Sherezade, Morella, Madame Bovary e, incluso, Lisbeth Salander han ayudado a defender y...

«Has cambiado mi vida» es una frase muy común en los emails que Walter Lewin recibe a diario de fans cautivados por sus «videoclases» sobre la física. Durante cuarenta y tres años como profesor en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, Lewin ha perfeccionado su peculiar arte de enseñar y de hacer de la física algo divertido. En Por amor a la física Lewin responde a preguntas curiosas y nos acompaña en un viaje maravilloso abriendo nuestros ojos a la belleza y al poder con los que la física puede revelar los mecanismos ocultos del mundo que nos rodea.

Niégate a sufrir por amor, declárate en huelga afectiva, haz las paces con la soledad y atempara la necesidad de amar por encima de todo y a cualquier precio. Rescata el amor propio, tu primer gran amor a partir del cual se generan los otros. Walter Riso nos adentra en algunos de los problemas...

In this comprehensive history of South Carolina, Walter Edgar presents a sweeping chronicle of a state with an illustrious, sometimes infamous, past. He describes in very human terms 475 years of recorded history in the Palmetto State, including the experiences of all South Carolinians―those...

Desde pequeños nos enseñan conductas de cuidado personal respecto al físico: lavarnos los dientes, bañarnos, arreglarnos las uñas, comer, aprender a vestirnos... Pero ¿qué hay del cuidado psicológico y la higiene mental? ¿Les prestamos suficiente atención? ¿Los ponemos en práctica?...

In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a postapocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden.

In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," John L. Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated administrator. Hennessy's approach to leadership is laser-focused on the journey rather than the destination. Each chapter in Leading Matters looks at valuable elements that have shaped Hennessy's career in practice and philosophy.