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«Hoy en día está de moda hablar de raza o de género, el tema que no está de moda es la clase. Es el tema que nos pone a todos tensos, nerviosos, inseguros de nuestra posición. En menos de veinte años, nuestra nación se ha convertido en un lugar en el que los ricos mandan de verdad. Nuestra nación se está convirtiendo rápidamente en una sociedad segregada por clases, en la que se olvida la situación de los pobres y se tolera y aprueba moralmente la codicia de los ricos.Tenemos miedo de dialogar sobre las clases, aunque la brecha cada vez mayor entre ricos y pobres ya haya sentado las bases para una guerra de clases continua y sostenida. Escribo sobre las cuestiones de clase que afectan más íntimamente a mi vida y a la de muchas otras personas que intentan averiguar cómo ser responsables, que creen en la justicia, que quieren tomar posición. Escribo personalmente sobre mi viaje desde un mundo de clase trabajadora hasta la conciencia de clase, sobre cómo el clasismo ha socavado el feminismo, sobre la solidaridad con los pobres y cómo vemos a los ricos. Las mujeres de todas las razas y los hombres negros se están convirtiendo rápidamente en los más pobres entre los pobres. Romper el silencio –hablar de la clase y asumir nuestra posición– es un paso necesario si queremos vivir en un mundo en el que la prosperidad y la abundancia puedan compartirse, en el que la justicia pueda ejercerse en nuestras vidas públicas y privadas. El momento de hablar de la clase, de saber a qué atenernos, es ahora, antes de que sea demasiado tarde, antes de que quedemos atrapados donde estamos y no podamos cambiar nuestra clase o nuestro destino».Con estas palabras, bell hooks da inicio a este penetrante libro donde resitúa la opresión de clase desde la interseccionalidad con el resto de opresiones. Un libro para pensar más allá de las jerarquías pero también más allá de los olvidos.
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A la Ruth li sembla que per fi té la vida controlada. Una feina fixa i amb cert prestigi com a professora a la universitat, una casa amb jardí com havia volgut de petita, un marit que l’estima i dos fills. Però quan el seu fill de vuit anys comença a patir episodis de psicosi i li detecten trets autistes, tot el que li semblava sòlid s’ensorra. A la vegada, la seva mare, malalta de càncer terminal, decideix casar-se amb un playboy italià i la convida al que a ella li sembla un casament esperpèntic a un glàmping de l’Ametlla de Mar. La seva psicòloga l’anima a anar-hi i li proposa que comenci una llista de coses que aprèn del seu fill. La Ruth, educada per a obeir, seguirà les seves instruccions. El que no sap és que a través d’aquest viatge s’acostarà per fi a la seva mare, es confrontarà amb les decepcions del seu matrimoni, redescobrirà un vell amant, digerirà la realitat del seu fill i, sobretot, desempolsarà memòries oblidades i curarà ferides antigues que li impedien ser qui realment és: una dona forta i imperfectament perfecta.
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¡Bam y Khun vuelven a encontrarse! Después de años separados, los dos amigos se van a ver de nuevo en circunstancias muy diferentes de cuando se separaron... Bam ahora es conocido como Jue Viole Grace, un aspirante a asesino del clan de los Fug, una organización criminal que opera por toda la Torre y cuyos oscuros planes para nuestro héroe no son nada halagüeños... Por su parte Khun lleva tiempo reuniendo al mejor equipo para asaltar la cima de la Torre de Dios y poder recuperar a Bam. Se acerca la emocionante Batalla del Laboratorio...
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A razor-sharp novel that skewers the life of the uber-rich in the vein of The White Lotus, with shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and The GraduateConor is a recent graduate from a law school no one has heard of. Without any job prospects and needing to support his chronically ill mother, he takes a summer job teaching tennis at the affluent gated community of Cutters Neck, Massachusetts. One of his first students is Catherine, a magnetic divorcée keen to hire him for more than advice on her serve. What begins as a transactional arrangement soon develops into an intoxicating sexual relationship.Things become even more complicated when Conor encounters Emily, with whom he has his first taste of real intimacy. Against his better judgment, he soon finds himself living a double life that inevitably leads to disaster.Conor knows how hard it is to win against those with money and power. In his fight for survival, he has to put emotion aside and play with only his wits – after all, in tennis, love means nothing.
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Two parents and their recently-bitten-werewolf daughter try to fit into a privileged New England society of magic aristocracy. But deadly terrors await them – ancient prophecies, remorseless magical trials, hidden conspiracies and the PTA bake sale.When Vivian’s kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire.As Vivian careens from hellhounds in the school corridors and demons at the talent show, she races to keep up with all the arcane secrets of her new society – shops only accessible by magic portal, the brutal Trials to enter high school, and the eternal inferno that is the parents’ WhatsApp group.And looming over everything is a prophecy of doom that sounds suspiciously like it’s about Aria. Vivian might be facing the end of days, just as soon as she can get her daughter dressed and out of the door…
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The fun and steamy new rom com of first loves and second chances - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex TalkDani Dorfman needs an escape, so when she is offered a job in Amsterdam after getting dumped and fired, she's determined to make it work.Unfortunately, her first week is disaster - especially when she crashes her bike into Wouter van Leeuwen, her family's Dutch exchange student from ten years ago. Her first love, until he ghosted her . . .Wouter is also at a crossroads - to inherit his canal family home, he needs to get married. And when Dani's job falls apart, she needs a visa.Dani is certain Amsterdam is temporary. But could its quirks and a second chance romance become her reasons to stay?
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The world’s leading educational technologist makes an inspirational case for how we should use AI to support pupils and teachersThe generative AI revolution has come to education. Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy with more than 150 million users, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology is already beginning to transform learning, offering a future roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world.The leading pioneer in the world of education technology, Khan explains the ins and outs of these cutting-edge tools and how they will forever change the way we learn and teach. How learning can be transformed for good. Rather than approaching the ChatGPT revolution with white-knuckled fear, Khan wants parents and teachers to embrace AI and adapt to it (while acknowledging its imperfections and limitations). He emphasizes that embracing AI in education is not about replacing human interaction but enhancing it, so that every student can complement the work they're already doing in profoundly new and creative ways, to personalize learning, adapt assessments, and support success in the classroom, preparing students for an increasingly digital future.But Brave New Words is not just about technology – it’s about what this technology means for our society, and the practical implications for administrators, guidance counsellors, and hiring managers who can harness the power of AI in education and the workplace. Khan also delves into the ethical and social implications of generative AI, offering thoughtful insights into how we can use these tools to build a more accessible education system for students around the world.
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A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky – perfect for fans of Douglas Adams.Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master – therefore worthless in a society utterly reliant on artificial labour and services. Fleeing the household, he enters a world he never knew existed. Human hierarchy is disintegrating, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to its wellbeing is struggling to find a purpose.Charles must face new challenges, illogical tasks and a cast of irrational characters. He’s about to discover that sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. But can he help fix the world, or is it too badly broken?
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Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. At twenty-six he is ready to re-join sensible adult life, but just when Dennis needs stability, his uptight parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing.Everything around him has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world.Early Sobrieties is a devastatingly witty novel about coming of age a second time. Deagler’s debut marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in American fiction.
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A deeply humane and revolutionary new framework for understanding and treating addictionWhat causes addiction, and how should we treat it? Today it is understood primarily as a brain disease, yet in this bold reimagining of addiction, pioneering psychiatrist Elias Dakwar argues that this is false. It fails to explain, among other things, why many people can enjoy drugs without developing a dependency on them. Despite decades of neuroscientific research, we aren’t much closer to truly understanding the nature of addiction, nor to addressing it effectively.In The Captive Imagination, Dakwar argues that addiction is an existential challenge, requiring a more philosophical and multidisciplinary approach, as well as a lens through which we can better understand ourselves. Addiction stems from our desire for happiness: whether addicts or not, we all struggle against meaninglessness, and resort to false solutions to our despair. Dakwar also shows how our individual capacity for self-delusion relates to our collective self-inflicted crises, from environmental destruction to social injustice.Drawing on vivid stories of his own patients, path-breaking research, and decades of clinical experience, The Captive Imagination offers a novel framework for understanding and overcoming addiction, as well as human suffering more generally.
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London, 1833Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees – a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia.If Hester can cure the ailing health of its owner, Gervaise Cherville, she will receive payment that will bring her everything she could dream of.But on arriving at Tall Trees, Hester quickly discovers that an even bigger task awaits her. Now she must unearth secrets that have lain hidden for decades – including one that will leave Hester’s own life forever changed…
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In this captivating Faulknerian tale of love, masculinity, and vengeance, tensions boil over in a rural mountain community whose able-bodied men have left to fight in World War I.In the heart of Cantal, in the heat of the summer of 1914, the men resigned themselves to going off to fight, far away. Joseph, just 15 years old, must take care of the family farm with his mother, his grandmother, and Leonard, an old neighbor who has become his friend. On the property next door, Valette, kept away from the war due to an atrophied hand, dwells on his grudges and his rage. And now he has to take in his brother's wife and daughter, who have sought refuge with him. The arrival of the two women will end up upsetting a hitherto immutable order and awakening buried passions.
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The half-million copy global literary quest bestseller for fans of The Name of the Rose: 'a masterpiece' The Times, 'Bolaño-esque' ObserverParis, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to its author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics.Obsessed with discovering the truth about Elimane's disappearance, Faye weaves past and present, countries and continents, to follow the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and to confront the great tragedies of history.Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?
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Isaac Bell returns for another white-knuckled mission in a new installment of the thrilling seriesCharismatic, handsome, and fiercely loyal, Isaac Bell is a no-nonsense private detective at the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Travelling all over early 20th century America in pursuit of justice for his clients, chasing down a steam train in a sports automobile is all in a day’s work for Bell. And while he’s on the trail of thieves, killers, and sometimes much worse, he’ll have to use his every last wit to stay ahead of those he seeks, and to stay alive . . .
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Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her – what to call it? – depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book.
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From the day that Bobby Zimmerman first turned on the radio in his parents' home in Hibbing, he'd had a pretty good idea that big things were happening, that old values were changing, that something new was on the way.Bob Dylan arrived in New York one winter morning in 1961. His music and spirit would go on to capture the hearts and minds of a generation, but what no one knew then was that, like so many before him, Dylan was concealing his Jewish origins.For Harry Freedman, Dylan's roots are the key to grasping how this complete unknown burst onto the scene and reinvented not only himself, but popular music. The instinct for escape and reinvention has defined Dylan's long career.In this insightful biography Freedman traces the heady atmosphere of the 1960s and the folk-rock revolution spearheaded by Dylan. Right up until the moment in 1966 when Dylan stepped out onto the stage and went electric - exploring how his musical decisions, genius for reinvention and his Jewishness go inescapably hand in hand.
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The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days.Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation, plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women’s Day despite all odds, Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors, and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook.Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage.
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A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.Is AI going to take over the world? Have scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think on its own? Is it going to replace all our jobs, even creative ones, like doctors, teachers and care-workers? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything?The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are 'no', 'they wish', 'LOL', and 'definitely not'. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used by tech corporations to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism, and devalue human creativity so they can replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines. Meanwhile, across healthcare, education, media, government and law-enforcement, ‘AI’ products are already being introduced that are unreliable, ineffective, unjust and dangerous.Packed with real-world examples, pithy arguments and expert insights, The AI Con arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation and power-grabs it aims to hide, and push back against it at work and in your daily life.
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Rival engineers dabble in personal chemistry while at a tropical company retreat in this smart and steamy romcom - perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood, Nisha Sharma and Elena Armas. Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of colour to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis, Rafe Gallagher - the boss's son. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she's picked to attend WMC's corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It's a chance to revive her stalled career and compete for a coveted spot in an executive training program - plus, three weeks in paradise! The only downside? Rafe is her co-attendee.Tris plans to avoid Rafe entirely, but when she arrives in Maui, a booking error has them stuck sharing the honeymoon suite - with only one bed . . . Sure, it's not all torture. Rafe is a smoldering ten - okay fine, an eleven - but after years of competition, they can barely stand being in the same time zone. As they vie against each other during aptitude tests and team-building exercises, Tris begins to realize Rafe might not be the villain after all. With her dreams at stake, can she learn to trust the man who might have been standing in her corner all along?
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Venice, June 2020. The city has returned to the Venetians during a merciful pause in the Covid pandemic, and few overseas visitors are to be seen. Yet Dominic Vicari, a British private investigator haunted by loss, has travelled across Europe to the tiny island of San Francesco del Deserto. The ancient monastery there, it is said, was founded by St Francis himself in the 13th century. Its population now consists of five Franciscan brothers and three pilgrims on retreat. Or, rather, two pilgrims and a dead man.Nathan Sutherland is called in when Vicari's broken body is found at the base of the campanile, his death seemingly nothing more than a terrible accident. But Nathan isn't so sure and sets out on an investigation that will reunite him with an old friend and an old adversary, and the discovery of a terrible secret hidden at the heart of the lagoon.
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All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.
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La clásica y conocida aventura de Astérix, en una edición especial limitada. Incluye 16 páginas de extras llenas de información curiosa y documentos originales que contextualizan el álbum y revelan muchos de sus secretos. Astérix y Obélix llegan a Helvecia con la misión de encontrar una flor muy especial: el ingrediente secreto necesario para que Panorámix salve a un romano.
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Las actividades incluidas en este libro fomentan el desarrollo de las habilidades cognitivas, motoras, lingüísticas, numéricas y espaciales. Gracias a ellas, los más pequeños desarrollarán su creatividad y la capacidad para entender instrucciones. ¡Porque aprender jugando es superdivertido! ¡Y más con unos lápices apilables superchulos con los que resolver los juegos!
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¡Desde que asiste a clases de Escalones la princesa Greta no tiene un momento de respiro! Subir y bajar escaleras con gracia y estilo es agotador, y por la noche solo quiere hacer zapping frente al televisor. Pero su amigo Jasper tiene otros planes y la arrastra al pueblo cercano al palacio para asistir a una ceremonia INCREÍBLE. Pero ¿por qué parece preocupada Madame Cézanne? ¿Será tal vez por la PLANTA EXÓTICA que el alcalde acaba de enterrar en mitad de la plaza?Una colección llena de fantasía, magia y humor que demuestra que las princesas también quieren vivir aventuras. ¡Plagada de personajes superdivertidos!PRINCESA GRETA. Es la joven princesa del Reino de Pacífica. Asiste a un colegio creado solo para ella ¡y emplea el poder de las gemas para solucionar todo tipo de líos!JASPER. Parece un joven paje de palacio, pero ya se sabe que las apariencias engañan.MADAME CÉZANNE. Una mujer extraña que vive en una casa que está al revés. Con ella las aventuras están aseguradas.REMO Y REGINA. Son los padres de Greta, además del rey y la reina del Reino de Pacífica. Por supuesto, son pacíficos.
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Violeta Medialuna y su amigo Simón Marmitón son dos aprendices de brujo muy traviesos que siempre están tramando algo y siempre acaban metidos en líos. En el séptimo libro de la serie, Violeta Medialuna lanza un hechizo para que nieve, pero, entre copo y copo, aparece alguien inesperado y las cosas no salen como había planeado...Una colección pensada especialmente para los niños que empiezan a leer de forma autónoma:-textos cortos y sencillos-una historia breve-bocadillos de cómic-ilustraciones coloridas y divertidas¡Para que los más pequeños se acerquen a la lectura de forma fácil y gratificante!
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CUANDO EL ZAPATO NO TE ENCAJA, QUIZÁ ES HORA DE DISEÑAR EL TUYOPara Cindy, no hay nada como un moño bien colocado y unos tacones impresionantes: puede que la ropa diseño no se confeccione para su talla, pero un buen par de zapatos siempre le van a la perfección. Con su reluciente título de diseñadora bajo el brazo, pero sin trabajo y con los pies en la tierra, Cindy regresa a casa de su madrastra, la productora ejecutiva del reality show de mayor éxito en el mundo: Antes de la medianoche. Cuando una de las concursantes cae del programa en el último momento, todos los focos caen sobre Cindy. Al fin y al cabo, podría dar un impulso a su carrera si aprovechase el concurso para lucir sus diseños de zapatos... y tener citas con un pretendiente maravilloso. Pero resulta que ser la primera y única concursante gorda en Antes de la medianoche la convierte en un icono viral del body positive. A partir de entonces, para poder llegar a la final en una casa llena de concursantes en quienes no se puede confiar, Cindy tendrá que dar un salto de fe y esperar que sus tacones, y su corazón, no terminen rotos en el proceso. «Cuando el zapato encaja incluye todo lo que más me fascina de las comedias románticas. Me reí, me extasié, sonreí. ¡Otro éxito para Julie Murphy!». COLLEEN HOOVER, autora del bestseller del The New York Times, Romper el círculo.
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¡Colorea una y otra vez a los personajes de tu cuento favorito!El ratón da un paseo por el bosque oscuro y peligroso. ¿A quién se encontrará?¡Descúbrelo mojando el pincel en agua y dando color a los escenarios!- ¡Un libro para colorear sin fin! Los colores desaparecen cuando se seca y los niños podrán volver a pintar los escenarios.- Basado en el superventas El grúfalo.- Favorece la destreza motora y el desarrollo de los sentidos.
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Para practicar con los modelos más populares y tradicionales de la papiroflexia. Diez modelos de aviones con diversos grados de dificultad, desde el popular Cohete o Bumerán hasta prototipos más especializados, como el Águila o el Transbordador espacial.Cada modelo tiene un paso a paso que facilita el plegado, que se realiza con las hojas con motivos estampados adjuntas, para luego lanzar al vuelo los aviones, cuya velocidad o estabilidad en el aire no dejarán de asombrar.Un momento de calma, concentración y tranquilidad, una pausa inesperada y provechosa para los pequeños, pero que también deleitará a los mayores.
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Ten wrongful conviction cases.Twenty-one innocent people.Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction.John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to exonerating innocent people, to uncover stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. All the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. And all are true.Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife's murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself - despite being 120 miles away at the time it was committed.Clarence Brandley spent nine years on Death Row, coming to within six days of execution, before new evidence cleared him of all charges.And in the case of the Norfolk Four, police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars.Impeccably researched and told with page-turning conviction, in Framed, these cases are finally laid bare.Most importantly, they show how truth can prevail and how freedom can be won when all seems lost.
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A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death―and what might follow―by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger travelled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.This experience spurred Junger―a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical―to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when we are forced to reckon with such existential questions?In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.
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Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA's success.More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. After interviewing the four members for an article in 2013 - at which time the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years - Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade. In The Book of ABBA, the band share their thoughts and opinions more openly than ever before, while Jan reveals the context in which their sound developed - and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalisation of pop culture.From their chart-topping ABBA Voyage - their first album in forty years - to the two-million-ticket-selling concert-experience of the same name, it is undeniable that, in the history of pop culture and music, there has never been a group like ABBA. With remarkable intimacy, Gradvall's book brings readers closer than ever to one of the world's most notoriously private music icons.
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Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant Major de Châteaufort. However, the sudden reappearance of an old admirer, M. Darcy, who has returned from Turkey with a tale of breathtaking derring-do and chivalry to add to his charms, reawakens in Julie a forgotten passion, and convinces her to pursue a rash and dangerous course, one that will have tragic consequences.Described as a masterpiece of psychological insight and a minutely observed social satire, A Slight Misunderstanding is here accompanied by other short stories: The Etruscan Vase, The Vision of Charles XI, Tamango, The Blue Room, A Hanging.Alma Classics is committed to making available a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics.
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One fae prince. One deadly bargain. And a mortal caught between desire and damnation.Crescent City meets the mafia in this totally addictive, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romantasy series by TikTok sensation Geneva Lee.Cate thought she knew darkness. As a trauma nurse, she had witnessed the worst of humanity. But nothing - not the blood, the violence, or the despair - could have prepared her for the fae underworld. A realm where beauty is a weapon, desire is a trap, and mortals who stray too far don't return.She almost didn't.Until Lachlan Gage - shadowed, ruthless, and feared even among his own kind - bound her to him with a deadly bargain. As the prince of New Orleans and ruler of the Nether Court, he is as much a curse as he is salvation. And with the Wild Hunt at his heels and war stirring between the fae courts, even his protection may not be enough to save her.Because Cate is more than just his reluctant mortal. She is wanted. Coveted. And the prince of the Hallow Court will do anything to claim her.But something ancient is rising in the dark, warping fae magic into something unnatural and cruel. It has nothing to do with Cate's past - or so she tells herself. Even though the ring left behind by her mother whispers otherwise.There is only one thing more dangerous than the fae who would kill for her.The fae who would die for her.And Lachlan Gage has never been one to lose.This is book two in the deliciously dark and totally addictive new romantasy series from the internationally bestselling author of Filthy Rich Vampires, set in the dark and deadly fae world of New Orleans. Perfect for fans of A Touch of Darkness and Sarah J Maas.
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'I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...'Mary longs for adventure, freedom and love. When her powerful father schemes to marry her off to a foolish aristocrat, she has to find a man who will offer her the independence she craves Never one to fear a scandal, she elopes with Edward Wortley Montagu.Mary uses her charm and connections to live a life less ordinary – befriending poets, playwrights, and politicians. Securing a position for her husband as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, she travels east, where she discovers a medical miracle.But this new adventure will come at a cost, for Mary’s inability to abide by the rules and her outspoken opinions have gained her powerful enemies…
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Thea Fox is just twelve years old when her parents are brutally slain. With Thea's help the police are able to put their murderer - a psychotic serial killer called Ray Riggs - behind bars for life. Changed forever, Thea slowly learns to come to terms with the events of that terrible night and builds a new life in a small country town where she can breathe in the smells of pine, fresh bread and her grandmother's homemade candles.But the connection that helped Thea put her parents' killer behind bars will come to haunt her. Though her Grandmother calls it a gift, to Thea it feels more like a curse because Ray feels the connection too and though Thea may try to move on, Ray isn't willing to let her go quite so easily...
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Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure she’s not spending too much time on YouTube? Is she talking fondly of dictators? Has she suddenly started quietly muttering in the Aldi queue about the ''Jewish Space Lasers'' she’s heard are setting wildfires around the world to make sure everyone believes in climate change? When was the moment the world began to believe anything?Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens. He discovers how disinformation and well-told lies can ruin a year or a whole life, how they can affect our family, our street, our community. How they can spread across a country, a continent, even the world. How they take hold of our imaginations and make us feel both helpless and powerful.And Danny asks: can you do anything to stop it – even with the truth on your side?
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