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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in library binding 1962 edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Underlining in pen and pencil to some pages. Covers and text in good condition. {74 pages}.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clean pages with the normal library markings and attachments. The pages are tanned. The cover has a clear plastic wrap over top. The book is in Spanish. El libro es en Espanol.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Una guia que inspirara hoy a cualquier persona honesta que desee gestionar su vida de manera audaz y estrategica en un mundo cada vez mas competitivo y hostil. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Tambien conocido como el Oraculo manual, esta pequena obra maestra se compone de trescientos aforismos que condensan la sabiduria practica de Baltasar Gracian, uno de los mayores escritores europeos del barroco. Los consejos de este sabio sobre la discrecion, la necedad de quejarse, el autocontrol, el buen gusto y el arte del disimulo resultan asombrosamente modernos.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA guide that will inspire anyone who wishes to direct their life boldly and strategically in an increasingly competitive and hostile world. Baltasar Gracian y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and philosopher. Gracian's style, generically called conceptism, is characterized by ellipsis and the concentration of a maximum of significance in a minimum of form, an approach referred to in Spanish as agudeza (wit), and which is brought to its extreme in The Art of Prudence or The art of governing oneself which is almost entirely composed of three hundred maxims with commentary. He constantly plays with words: each phrase becomes a puzzle, using the most diverse rhetorical devices. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Un imprescindible del pensamiento estoico, la corriente filosofica para la vida moderna y la tranquilidad del espiritu. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONTrue happiness is. to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De Vita Beata or On the Happy Life is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD. It was intended for his older brother Gallio, to whom Seneca also dedicated his dialogue entitled De Ira ('On Anger'). It is divided into 28 chapters that present the moral thoughts of Seneca at their most mature. Seneca explains that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reason reason meant not only using logic, but also understanding the processes of nature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Como podemos ser felices y libres a pesar de las vicisitudes de la vida? En esta obra maestra del pensamiento estoico, tambien conocida como Enquiridion, Epicteto nos invita a centrarnos en controlar solo lo que dependa de nosotros y aceptar lo que venga de fuera. Basandose en ejemplos practicos y cotidianos, el libro condensa los principios del estoicismo, la corriente filosofica que busca la tranquilidad del espiritu, de la que, junto con Marco Aurelio y Seneca, Epicteto es el maximo representante.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and others. They have inspired debate, discord, war, and revolutions. They have illuminated, outraged, provoked, and comforted. They have enriched lives, but they have also destroyed them. Taurus publishes the works of great thinkers, pioneers, radicals, and visionaries, whose ideas shocked civilizations and pushed us to be who we are. How can we be happy and free despite lifes hardships? In this masterpiece of stoic thinking, also known as the Enchiridion, Epictetus invites us to focus on controlling nothing but what is up to us and accept what comes from external forces. With practical and everyday examples, the book summarizes the principles of stoicism, a philosophical current that searches for a serenity of spirit, a current of which, along with Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, Epictetus is the topmost representative. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Este explosivo llamamiento de Rousseau a favor de la libertad humana contribuyo a encender la mecha de la Revolucion Francesa y ha avivado desde entonces cualquier debate sobre como deberiamos gobernarnos los unos a los otros, siendo considerado tanto un modelo para el terror politico como una declaracion fundamental de la democracia.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe Social Contract is one of Jean Jacques Rousseau's works that has influenced politics & government throughout the world. It espouses Rousseau's theory on power & philosophical doctrine by delving into what he viewed as the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. It argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. In The Social Contract (1762) Rousseau argues that laws are binding only when they are supported by the general will of the people. When people aren't abiding the general will and they are "forced to be free", this wasn't advocating totalitarianism. The general will is laws that are accepted as just and those who don't follow the general will are breaking the law. Rousseau is advocating to force people to follow the law because it is in everyone's best interest to do so. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. De la pluma de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, un extraordinario documento de feminismo avant la lettre que reclama, en el siglo XVII, el acceso de las mujeres al saber. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Este extraordinario documento de feminismo avant la lettre se compone de dos cartas que reclaman, ya en el siglo XVII, el acceso de las mujeres al saber. Sor Juana, que uso el habito para acercarse a las letras, escribe con fuerza y encanto, y estos textos, en parte autobiograficos, son de una riqueza impresionante y sorprenden al conectar con muchas de nuestras preocupaciones actuales.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, an extraordinary feminist document avant la lettre demanding womens access to knowledge. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and others. They have inspired debate, discord, war and revolution. They have brought enlightenment, outrage, provocation and comfort. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Taurus publishes the works of great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas have shaken civilization and driven us to be who we are. This extraordinary feminist document avant la lettre is composed of a pair of seventeenth-century letters demanding that women have access to knowledge. Sor Juana, who became a nun to devote herself to study, writes with a strong and captivating style. Part of the richness of these semi-autobiographical texts is their surprising connection with modern-day concerns. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover in library binding 1958 edition. Ex-library book with stamps and labels attached. Binding firm. Underlining with parenthesis in pen and pencil to pages. Text in fair condition. {46 pages}.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Inspirada por el juicio a un burocrata que contribuyo a provocar el Holocausto, esta obra fundamental sobre la banalidad del mal asombro al mundo con su analisis de la ceguera moral de un regimen y de la insistencia de un hombre en ser absuelto de toda culpa porque solo cumplia ordenes.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONIdeas that have changed the world. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and others. They have inspired debate, discord, war, and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked, and consoled. They have enriched lives, and they have also destroyed them. Taurus publishes the works of great thinkers, pioneers, radicals, and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and compelled us to become who we are today. Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who contributed to triggering the Holocaust, this fundamental work on the banality of evil astonished the world with its analysis of the moral blindness of a regime and the persistence of a man to be cleared of all guilt because he was "just following orders. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ideas que han cambiado el mundo.A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demas. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolucion. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambien las han destruido.Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizacion y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos.Las Meditaciones del gran emperador-filosofo romano Marco Aurelio son sencillas aunque profundas obras de filosofia estoica que, a dia de hoy, continuan ofreciendo a muchos orientacion y consuelo con su elocuencia, sabiduria y humildad.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONNearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.All along history, there have been books that transformed the world, that altered the way we see ourselves and others, that have inspired debate, discord, war, and revolutions. Books that have illuminated, outraged, provoked, and comforted. Books that enriched lives, but also destroyed them. Taurus is publishing the works of great thinkers, pioneers, radicals,and visionaries,whose ideas rattled civilization and propelled us to become who we are. Meditations, by the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius,are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that, to this day, keep guiding and comforting many with their eloquence, wisdom, and humility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Bueno. Primera edición. César Vallejo, Ciro Alegría, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez. Buen estado. ANTES DE HACER EL PEDIDO DEBE LEER LAS CONDICIONES DE PAGO Y ENVÍO DE LA LIBRERÍA. Size: 343 pp. 21 x 13,5 cm, 371 gr.

Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969. Justificación de la filosofia - COPY WITH MARKINGS. Traducción del Jesus Aguirre. Madrid: Taurus Edíciones, 1964, 68pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, pencil underlining throughout, mainly 5 lines or less per page, some single words, persistent but text remains quite readable, distributor stamp on title page. Cuadernos Taurus 60.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Contiene mas de 30 000 palabras y locuciones del lexico vivo del espanol general, y en particular de America. Las voces han sido cuidadosamente seleccionadas con vistas a recoger el vocabulario fundamental que debe manejar un estudiante de ensenanza secundaria, desechando los usos anticuados y puramente nacionales.Incluye:- Americanismos mas usuales y extendidos.- Ejemplos vivos de uso.- Sinonimos y afines mas comunes.- Familias de palabras.- Siglas mas frecuentes.- Modelos de conjugacion.- Principales reglas ortograficas.ENGLISH DESCRIPTION It offers 30,000 entries, a selection of the most commonly used and extended Anglicisms, conjugation rules, the cardinal rules of spelling, most frequently used synonyms, abbreviations and acronyms, families of words, and practical examples of use. It is a work conceived from all of the Spanish-speaking countries, which maintains a fundamental balance between the varieties in the language spoken in so many different regions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. El extrano e increible caso Breitwieser, la historia de una obsesion por el arte y una insaciable avidez por poseer la belleza a toda costa. Impresionante. Tan absorbente como una novela de Highsmith solo que, por supuesto, hay que recordar constantemente que todo es verdad. Me ha encantado. -Maggie O'Farrell, autora de Hamnet Ha habido muchos ladrones de arte a lo largo de la historia, pero ninguno como Stephane Breitwieser. El nunca robo por dinero, sino que sustraia solo aquellas piezas cuya belleza lo embelesaba, y exponia esos tesoros en un par de habitaciones secretas de su casa, donde podia admirarlos a su antojo. Nuestro ladron tenia, ademas de una gran sensibilidad artistica, una habilidad innata para burlar casi cualquier sistema de seguridad, y consiguio perpetrar un numero asombroso de robos a plena luz del dia, sin armas ni amenazas, mientras su novia distraia a los guardias de seguridad. Pero ese talento iba unido a un creciente desprecio por el riesgo y una necesidad adictiva de fijarse nuevos retos, ignorando las suplicas de su novia para que dejara de hacerlo, hasta que un ultimo acto de arrogancia acabo con todo. A lo largo de casi ocho anos, Breitwieser recorrio museos y catedrales de toda Europa, donde robo mas de trescientos objetos entre ellos cuadros de Pieter Brueghel el Joven, Antoine Watteau o Francois Boucher y llego a acumular mas de 1.400 millones de dolares en piezas de coleccionismo de primer nivel. En El ladron de arte, un autentico rompecabezas con giros que resultan casi increibles, Michael Finkel explora con brillantez la emocion de los golpes que llevo a Breitwieser a seguir adelante y narra de manera genial la historia de este avido coleccionista para quien los museos no eran mas que prisiones donde el arte se encontraba recluido.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2023: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwiesers strange worldunlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight yearsin museums and cathedrals all over EuropeBreitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwiesers strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his hearts content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addicts need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriends pleas to stopuntil one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. -------------Trade paperback, quite thick, 8 1/4" tall. Text Spanish. 559 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Tapa blanda. Condition: mínimas rozaduras. Buen estado. 14x21 334pp. 14x21 334pp. 334 pp. 14x21.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. La edicion de lujo, maravillosamente ilustrada, del bestseller mas estoico. Una invitacion a desprendernosde lo incontrolable y tomar las riendas de lo que si depende de nosotros para convertirnos en escultores de nuestros pensamientos, nuestros juicios y nuestros deseos. Escritas en griego por un emperador romano e intelectual que no tenia intencion alguna de publicarlas, estas pildoras de sabiduria practica, repletas de encanto y expresividad, han sido consultadas y admiradas por estadistas, pensadores y lectores de a pie durante casi dos mil anos. Aunque Marco Aurelio los compuso para comprenderse a si mismo y dar sentido a su vida, estos ejercicios espirituales trascendieron ese fin y se consideran una de las mas grandes obras de la historia de la filosofia. Pero, ademas, esta lectura enormementeplacentera nos ayudara a consolidar nuestra fortaleza interior y a protegernos del desorden de nuestras pasiones y de los peligros de nuestros errores. Edicion ilustrada y nueva traduccion del griego.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA deluxe, wonderfully illustrated edition of the Stoic bestseller. An invitation to relinquish what you cant control and take the reins of what you can, becoming the architect of your own thoughts, decisions and desires. Written in Greek by a Roman emperor and intellectual for his own edification, these pillars of practical wisdom have been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and ordinary readers for nearly two millennia. Marcus Aurelius had no intention of publishing his Meditations, but his spiritual exercises have transcended their original purpose and are considered one of historys greatest works of philosophy. In addition to being enjoyable reading, they are valuable for cultivating inner strength and guarding against disordered passions and the dangers of our ways. An illustrated edition with a new translation from the Greek. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Uno de los mejores libros de Amazon de 2024El libro mas personal de Malcolm Gladwell, un guru de lo mas carismatico (San Francisco Chronicle), una guia para entender las epidemias del mundo moderno.Veinticinco anos despues de la publicacion de su primer libro, Malcolm Gladwell retoma las lecciones de El punto clave con la intencion de iniciar un debate dificil sobre las epidemias. Es el momento de reconocer nuestro papel en su genesis y ser honestos acerca de todas las formas sutiles y a veces ocultas en las que intentamos manipularlas. Necesitamos una guia sobre los patogenos y contagios que nos rodean.A traves de una serie de historias fascinantes, La venganza del punto clave rastrea el surgimiento de una nueva y preocupante forma de ingenieria social. Gladwell nos lleva a las calles de Los Angeles para conocer a los ladrones de bancos mas exitosos del mundo, redescubre un programa de television olvidado de la decada de los setenta que cambio el mundo, visita el enclave donde se produjo un experimento historico, en un pequeno callejon sin salida al norte de California, y ofrece una historia alternativa de dos de las mayores epidemias de nuestros dias: la COVID y la crisis de los opioides. Con su caracteristica combinacion de ciencia social y divulgacion, nos invita a reflexionar sobre nuestra comprension de los contagios del mundo moderno (y sus puntos de inflexion).ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAmazon Best Books of 2024Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.Why is MiamiMiami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the worlds most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwells most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. Its time we took tipping points seriously. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 333p., bibl., wrps. Reúne la poesía completa de Fray Luis, y una antología del resto de los poetas. Contenido: "El humanismo como fuente de poesía", "La escuela poética salmantina", "Fray Luis de Salamanca", "Francisco de Aldana", Francisco de la Torre", "Francisco de Medrano".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Light cover wear. Antonio Machado, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillen, Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti. D7.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Una valiosa e inedita aportacion de Hannah Arendt al conflicto entre Israel y Palestina.En 1944, la corriente sionista europea estaba a punto de lograr el objetivo de fundar su propio Estado en territorio palestino. Fueron muchos los intelectuales que participaron de este planteamiento, entre ellos Hannah Arendt, quien elaboro un breve estudio acerca de la viabilidad del proyecto, posicionandose a favor de la creacion del Estado de Israel, aunque con ciertas reticencias: este asentamiento no debia realizarse sin establecer las condiciones con claridad, debido al peligro de desembocar en una convivencia truncada y hostil. Advirtio, ademas, de que Estados Unidos podria aprovecharse de la situacion para apropiarse del petroleo de la region.Sobre Palestina alberga una funesta premonicion que habia permanecido inedita hasta hoy. Tanto en el prologo como en el epilogo, el filosofo Thomas Meyer da cuenta del contexto del manuscrito de la pensadora judia y del porque de que nunca se publicara, amen de las presiones recibidas por parte de los comites de apoyo sionista. En este volumen tambien se incorpora el memorandum titulado "El problema de los refugiados palestinos", redactado por varios autores en 1958 -entre los que figura, a disgusto de ella, Hannah Arendt- y publicado por el Institute for Mediterranean Affairs, un estudio en forma de esclarecedor catalogo de cuestiones acerca del conflicto palestino, redactado diez anos despues de que el Estado de Israel se hiciera realidad, del modo en que Arendt habia temido y pronosticado.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA valuable and unpublished contribution by Hannah Arendt to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In 1944, the European Zionist current was about to achieve the objective of founding its own State in Palestinian territory. Many intellectuals participated in its planning, among them Hannah Arendt, who elaborated a brief study about the viability of the project, leaning in favor of creating the State of Israel, though with certain reservations: this settlement should not be built without establishing clear conditions, due to the dangers that it could disembogue in a curtailed and hostile interaction. She also warned that the United States might try to take advantage of the situation to get hold of the regions oil. On Palestine harbors a fateful premonition that had been kept unpublished till today. In both the prologue and the epilogue, philosopher Thomas Meyer gives account of the context of the manuscript by this Jewish thinker and why it was never published, aside from the pressure by Zionist support committees. This volume also includes the memorandum entitled The Problem of Palestinian Refugees, written by several authors in 1958featuring, to her disgust, Hannah Arendtand published by the Institute for Mediterranean Affairs, a study in the form of an enlightening catalogue of issues regarding the Palestinian conflict, written ten years after the State of Israel became a reality, in the way Arendt had feared and predicted. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. En la lista de los mejores 50 libros del 2025 de BabeliaLa historia de un grupo de mujeres brillantes, tenaces y pioneras que compartieron su afan por la educacion, su amor por los libros e, incluso, un bonito jardin.Boston, 1871. Alice Gulick, misionera protestante, se embarca rumbo a Espana para luchar por la educacion femenina. Su viaje marcara el comienzo de una emocionante aventura que culminara con la creacion del Instituto Internacional, un colegio muy avanzado para la epoca. A principios del siglo XX, en Madrid, las americanas de esta institucion tejeran vinculos duraderos con las profesoras y estudiantes de la Residencia de Senoritas, como Maria Goyri y Maria de Maeztu. Durante decadas compartiran edificios, intercambiaran cartas y uniran fuerzas en la lucha feminista.Madrid, 2021. Cristina Onoro, profesora de Literatura y escritora que cautivo a los lectores con Las que faltaban, descubre esta historia de amistad transatlantica en los archivos de la Residencia de Senoritas. Durante los siguientes anos sera ella quien se embarque en la apasionante aventura de contarla. Con su cuaderno y una camara al hombro, viajara por Espana, Estados Unidos e Inglaterra siguiendo las huellas de varias generaciones de feministas que hicieron posible el acceso de las mujeres a la universidad. Emily Dickinson, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Virginia Woolf y la pintora Mary Cassatt seran algunas de sus companeras en este viaje, repleto de conexiones y casualidades, que la acabara llevando al encuentro de su propia memoria.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONIn the list of the best 50 books of 2025 by BabeliaThe story of a group of brilliant, pioneering women who shared a passion for education, love of books and a beautiful garden.Boston, 1871. Alice Gulick, a Protestant missionary, travels to Spain to advocate for womens education. Her journey marks the beginning of an adventure that culminates in the creation of the Instituto Internacional, a school ahead of its time. In early twentieth-century Madrid, the American women at this institution forged lasting ties with the professors and students of the Residencia de Senoritas, whose numbers included Maria Goyri and Maria de Maeztu. For decades, they shared building space, exchanged letters and joined forces for female equality. Madrid, 2021. Cristina Onoro, a professor of literature and author who captivated readers with Those Missing, discovers this history of trans-Atlantic friendship in the archives of the Residencia de Senoritas and sets off on her own adventure to document it. With her notebook and camera, she travels from Spain to the United States and England on the trail of the several generations of feminists who led the way in gaining access to higher education for women. Emily Dickinson, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Virginia Woolf and Mary Cassatt are just some of the accomplished figures whose legacy she encounters on a journey full of connections and coincidences that brings her to terms with her own memories. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. El nuevo libro de Joseph Stiglitz, Premio Nobel de EconomiaUn argumento solido a favor de un capitalismo progresista basado en la cooperacion para el bien comun. -Kirkus La libertad es la idea que subyace a las sociedades occidentales, pero de un tiempo a esta parte su significado se ha desplazado: la libertad es la libertad de las empresas para contaminar, la de las grandes tecnologicas para escapar de cualquier control y la de los politicos para mentir y fomentar la crispacion. Como hemos llegado hasta aqui? De que libertad estamos hablando? Y de que libertad deberiamos hablar?El experimento neoliberal al que se han entregado las elites en las ultimas decadas ha provocado que los mercados sin regular hayan explotado a los consumidores, los trabajadores y el medioambiente. A su vez, la desigualdad resultante ha propiciado la aparicion de movimientos populistas que piensan que la libertad es ignorar cualquier responsabilidad que tengamos hacia los demas ciudadanos. Ahora la verdadera libertad politica y economica esta en peligro.Con pluma afiliada y apoyado en el trabajo de filosofos contemporaneos, Stiglitz dibuja una nueva manera de considerar el papel del Estado y un modo mas profundo y humano de valorar las libertades y decidir que hacer cuando la libertad de uno choca con la de su vecino. Tenemos que reinventar nuestros sistemas economicos y legales y adoptar formas de accion colectiva que incluyan regulaciones e inversiones, si queremos crear una sociedad innovadora en la que todos podamos prosperar.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom one of the worlds leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are weand should webe thinking about?In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects Americas current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom.As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites unshakeable dedication to the neoliberal experiment. Explicitly taking on giants such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, Stiglitz exposes accepted ideas about our political and economic life for what they are: twisted visions that tear at the social fabric while they enrich the very few.The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economicsincluding recent advances in which Stiglitz has played such an important rolereframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Drawing on the work of cont Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. GANADOR DEL PREMIO PULITZER Un relato epico y extraordinario sobre la rivalidad cientifica y la obsesion en la busqueda por catalogar toda la vida en la TierraUn libro cautivador y que invita a la reflexion, centrado en la politica teatral y la ciencia a menudo profundamente inquietante que dan forma a nuestras definiciones de la vida en la Tierra. The New York TimesUn relato fluido y atractivo sobre los origenes del darwinismo en el siglo XVIII, antes de Darwin. The Wall Street JournalGANADOR DEL PREMIO LITERARIO DE DIVULGACION CIENTIFICA PEN/E.O. WILSON ELEGIDO POR KIRKUS REVIEWS COMO UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL ANO 2025Linneo y Buffon: un relato extraordinario de rivalidad y ambicion por clasificar toda la vida en la tierra.Una narracion, epica y extraordinaria, de rivalidad y obsesion cientifica en la carrera por estudiar toda la vida en la Tierra. The New York Times Book ReviewEn el siglo XVIII, dos hombres de la misma edad (y caracteres opuestos) dedicaron sus vidas a la misma ardua tarea: identificar y describir toda la vida en la Tierra. Carl Linneo, un medico sueco muy devoto y con dotes de comerciante, considero que la clasificacion debia responder a categorias ordenadas y estaticas. Por el contrario, Georges-Louis de Buffon, aristocrata, polimata y director del Jardin du Roi de Francia, veia la vida como un remolino dinamico y complejo. Cada uno emprendio su trabajo consciente de las dificultades pero creyendolo posible. Como podria el planeta albergar mas de unos pocos miles de especies?Pero ambos acabaron muy lejos de sus objetivos, aunque por el camino articularon puntos de vista marcadamente divergentes sobre la naturaleza, la humanidad y el futuro de la Tierra. Linneo otorgo al mundo conceptos como mamifero, primate y Homo sapiens, pero tambien nego que las especies pudieran cambiar y termino por promulgar una pseudociencia racista. Buffon formulo los primeros esbozos de la ciencia evolutiva y la genetica, advirtio del cambio climatico global y argumento contra los prejuicios imperantes. El contraste entre sus investigaciones y visiones del mundo se perpetuo hasta mucho despues de que ambos hubiesen fallecido, cuando sus sucesores se disputaron el dominio de la ciencia emergente que dio en llamarse biologia.Tras mas de una decada de investigacion, Jason Roberts narra, con una prosa elegante y agil, una inolvidable y seductora historia real que explora las vidas entrelazadas y los legados cientificos de estos dos grandes pioneros. Todos los seres vivos traza un arco de conocimiento y descubrimiento que se extiende a lo largo de tres siglos hasta nuestros dias.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONPULITZER PRIZE WINNER An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth[An] engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the theatrical politics and often deeply troubling science that shape our definitions of life on Earth.The New York TimesA fluent and engaging account of the eighteenth-century origins of Darwinism before Darwin.The Wall Street JournalWINNER OF THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn the eighteenth century, two menexact contemporaries and polar oppositesdedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a hucksters flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic p Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Vuelve el autor de Otras mentes con un ensayo fascinante y revelador sobre lo que une a todos los habitantes de la Tierra.Si la historia de la Tierra se redujera a un ano, nuestra especie surgiria en los ultimos treinta minutos. Pero la vida ha existido durante 3.700 millones de anos, la mayor parte de la historia de nuestro planeta y mas de una cuarta parte de la edad del universo. Que hicieron esos organismos durante todo este tiempo?Impulsado por esta cuestion, el filosofo y submarinista Peter Godfrey-Smith se pregunta en su nuevo libro como la vida fue moldeada y moldeo la Tierra, y nos invita a un fascinante recorrido por su historia. Visitaremos a gorilas ruandeses y pajaros australianos, bucearemos arrecifes de coral y guaridas de pulpos, consideraremos el impacto del lenguaje y la escritura para el planeta, y sopesaremos las responsabilidades que conllevan nuestros poderes unicos, en relacion con la agricultura industrial, la conservacion del habitat, el cambio climatico y el uso de animales en experimentos.Desde los mares hasta los bosques, desde la primera aparicion de la materia animada hasta su futura extincion, el autor nos ofrece una asombrosa vision del curso de la vida en la Tierra y de como podriamos afrontar los retos de nuestro tiempo. Los humanos pertenecemos a un sistema infinitamente complejo y nuestra mente es producto de ese sistema, pero tambien somos una fuerza capaz de modificar el mundo en el que vivimos. Somo criaturas de la Tierra, tenemos el futuro de la Tierra en nuestras manos.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONOne of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion yearsmost of our planets history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell).What have these organismsbacteria, animals, plants, and the restdone in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet. Where his acclaimed books Other Minds and Metazoa explored the riddle of how conscious minds came to exist on Earth, Living on Earth turns to what happens when we look at the mind from another sidewhen we come to see organisms as active causes, not merely as results of the evolutionary process. The planet we inhabit is significantly the work of other living beings, who shaped the environments that we ourselves later transformed.To that end, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments. Ranging from the seas to the forests, and from animate matters first appearance to its future extinction, Godfrey-Smith offers a novel picture of the course of life on Earth and how we might meet the challenges of our time, the Anthropocene. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Con la caida de la Republica de Weimar comprendimos que las democracias son fragiles. En un abrir y cerrar de ojos pueden desaparecer las libertades que parecen firmemente conquistadas.Pocos acontecimientos historicos ilustran la fragilidad de la democracia de una manera tan evidente como el que se relata en El fracaso de la Republica de Weimar, uno de los mayores dramas de la historia mundial, que el prestigioso historiador aleman Volker Ullrich explica como nunca antes se ha contado: de una forma vivida, emocionante y tan minuciosamente contextualizada que los paralelismos con la actualidad emergen de manera sorprendente.Es cierto que el nacimiento de la republica se habia producido en un contexto desfavorable: el Imperio aleman habia sufrido una aplastante derrota y el pais tuvo que aceptar las durisimas condiciones del Tratado de Versalles, a las que se sumo una interminable sucesion de crisis economicas (solo interrumpidas por una fase de aparente estabilizacion a mediados de los anos veinte). Pero, a pesar de todas las penurias por las que transito, la recien esbozada primera democracia alemana no nacio predestinada a un final estrepitoso: desde la fase fundacional de la republica hasta enero de 1933 hubo repetidas oportunidades de marcar un rumbo diferente. Por que no se logro? Entonces, igual que ahora, la realidad de un pais dependia de las acciones concretas de los individuos. En cada pagina de este apasionante libro, Ullrich nos lanza un recordatorio urgente: esta en nuestras manos que la democracia triunfe o fracase.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom the New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis of the Weimar Republic, when hyperinflation and political upheaval threatened to unravel a new experiment in democracy.As the great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig confided in his autobiography, written in exile, I have a pretty thorough knowledge of history, but never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such gigantic proportions. He was referring to the situation in Germany in 1923. It was a year of lunacy, defined by hyperinflation, a political system on the verge of collapse, and separatist movements that threatened Germanys territorial integrity. Most significantly, Adolf Hitler launched his infamous Beer Hall Putsch in Municha failed coup that nonetheless drew international attention and demonstrated the Nazis ruthless determination to seize power.In Germany 1923, award-winning historian Volker Ullrich draws on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and other sources from the time to present a captivating new history of those explosive twelve months. The crisis began when the French invaded the Ruhr Valley in January to force Germany to pay the reparations it owed under the Treaty of Versailles, which had ended the Great War. For years, German leaders had embraced inflationary policies to finance the costs of defeat, and, as Ullrich demonstrates, the invasion utterly destroyed the value of the German mark. Before the war, the exchange rate was 4.2 marks to the dollar. By November 20, 1923, a dollar was worth an incomprehensible 4.2 trillion marks, and a loaf of bread cost 200 billion. Facing the abyss, many ordinary Germans called for a national messiah. Among the figures to vie for that role was Hitler, a thirty-four-year-old veteran who possessed a uniquely malevolent personal magnetism. Although the Nazi coup in November was put down and Hitler arrested, the putsch showed just how tenuous the first German democracy, the Weimar Republic, was at its core.As Ullrichs panoramic narrative reveals, other Germans responded to the successive crises by launching a cultural revolution: 1923 witnessed the e Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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