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¿Podemos decir que la actual forma de entender la civilización está llegando a su término?¿De qué manera estrujamos los combustibles fósiles y, en nombre del progreso, alcanzamos este punto de agotamiento?¿Por que la austeridad seria el camino para volver a relacionarnos entre nosotros y cohabitar con las especies no humanas?Las ultimas decadas hemos sido testigos de la barbarie mas absoluta: asumir que la naturaleza esa compleja red de vida que ha evolucionado durante miles de millones de años es un mero recurso a nuestra disposicion. Ante esta debacle, el destacado ecologo Mauricio Lima, con un ensayo amable, didactico y sin tintes apocalipticos, invita a pensar la retirada de nuestra civilizacion hacia la austeridad y, en este acto, resistir al hecho de vivir cada vez mas aislados y de manera personalista. A traves de analisis cientifico, razonamiento intuitivo o recuerdos personales, explora los desafios sociales que vienen y busca la manera de organizar un mundo donde aprendamos a reagruparnos y cuidarnos mutuamente.

"A cincuenta años del inicio de uno de los períodos más trágicos de nuestra historia, me parece vital e indispensable revisar ese pasado que por momentos sentimos que se hace presente." –FELIPE PIGNA

Un capo no llora. Un capo no ama.Zack Edevane domina la costa oeste con puño de hierro y una certeza absoluta: nada puede romperlo. El imperio Edevane es su dios... hasta que ella aparece.No pertenece a su mundo. No juega sus reglas. Y sin proponerselo, lo dobla.Pero cuando el pasado regresa, lo hace con todo: secretos enterrados, traiciones que lo obligan a descubrir que su vida entera fue una mentira. Y mientras Zack intenta reconstruirse entre escombros, sus enemigos encuentran la unica arma capaz de destruirlo: ella.El precio que pagan los dos es irreparable.Al final de la sangre, del dolor y de todo lo que perdio, Zack enfrenta la unica eleccion que nunca supo hacer: su imperio maldito... o la mujer que le enseño que siempre fue mucho mas debil de lo que se atrevio a admitir.

“Las dos caras de Londres” representa la más laboriosa de las obras de un autor cuya genialidad aunó la catarsis con el vano desafío, el reflejo doloroso con lo cauteloso, porque un día tuvo el refle

Un encuentro fortuito en un tren a Viena. Una habitación de hotel y un teléfono que implora. El enraizado recuerdo de una joven del pasado. Una triste alimaña que mira a través de la ventana.Los dieciocho relatos que componen este libro son el resultado de multiples lecturas, pero tambien de esa nueva curiosidad encadenada que te atrapa desde la primera busqueda y que te permite trenzar un mosaico de pequeñas o grandes conquistas, de maravillosos descubrimientos. Y, por supuesto, lo son igualmente de la observacion, nada experta pero si indagatoria, no siempre indulgente, de numerosos personajes que fueron surgiendo por el camino. Algunos respiraron y pisaron la tierra en realidad; otros son el producto de mi imaginacion. Todos forman ya parte de esa gozosa e inagotable cadena.

Este no es un libro que solamente se lee.Es un libro que se experimenta.Tal vez no te falte nada.Tal vez tengas una vida construida, responsabilidades, proyectos, personas a las que cuidar.O tal vez estes atravesando un momento dificil, de perdida, de enfermedad, de cansancio profundo.Sea como sea, hay instantes en los que algo en ti se detiene y se pregunta en silencio:¿Es esto vivir?El Viaje nace de esa pregunta honesta.No para darte respuestas rapidas, sino para ayudarte a mirar con mas verdad.Este libro propone un metodo practico de despertar consciente, estructurado en un viaje de cinco etapas claras que no te llevan hacia fuera, sino hacia dentro: Quien Soy: del Ego al Ser Ser vs. Hacer: detras de lo que haces esta lo que Eres Incertidumbre, Serendipia y Sincrodestino Darse Cuenta: el poder silencioso de ver con el Alma Despierta, Vive a lo anchoCinco etapas claras y profundas para aprender a relacionarte de otra manera con el miedo, el control, las creencias limitantes y el ruido interior; para dejar de luchar contra lo que te duele y empezar a comprenderlo y superarlo; para pasar del hacer constante al estar presente y disfrutar cada instante del dia .Aqui no encontraras formulas magicas ni teorias complejas. Mas bien descubriras una nueva espiritualidad actual a los tiempos que vivimos.Encontraras palabras honestas, ejercicios claros y una invitacion radicalmente simple: volver a ti y disfrutar del regalo maravilloso que es estar vivo.El prologo, escrito por Pablo dOrs, situa este libro en una espiritualidad contemporanea, sobria y esencial; de el llega a decir: Lo mejor que puedo decir de El Viaje es que es el libro que me hubiera gustado escribir a mi.Escrito por Juanjo Fraile, autor de multiples publicaciones, podcast y otros libros que inspiran en procesos de transformacion personal, El Viaje se presenta como su obra mas intima y transformadora. Un paso adelante en una nueva espiritualidad que nos invita a recordar quienes somos y, por fin, a vivir nuestra vida a lo Ancho.Este libro es para ti si: vives acelerado, viendo pasar los dias con un exceso de cargas y creencias que te impiden ser feliz del todo, atraviesas un momento dificil y necesitas encontrar sentido sin discursos vacios, buscas profundidad espiritual sin dogmas ni tradiciones que no te han ayudado como esperabas, intuyes que el verdadero cambio no esta en hacer mas, sino en darte cuenta de quien eres realmente y disfrutar de cada dia.El Viaje te propone una experiencia personal, la tuya, que merece la pena ser vivida con alegria y sin tantas limitaciones innecesarias.Te acompaña a recordar lo que ya eres, incluso y sobre todo cuando la vida aprieta.Porque cuando empiezas a ver tu vida con claridad, el miedo pierde poder.La vida se ordena por dentro.Y entonces, sin esfuerzo,empiezas a vivira lo ancho.

What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Bartons formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

This new translation of the best stories by Ichiyo Higuchi showcases the pioneering authors profound sensitivity and lyrical eye. The crystalline beauty of falling snow is a painful reminder of lost innocence; three children growing up on the fringes of Tokyos red-light district enjoy a last summer of freedom before adulthood and its compromises overtake them; a discontented serving maid and a prodigal son find their transgressions can be mutually beneficial; and a mans passion for an indifferent teahouse courtesan becomes so consuming that he is willing to sacrifice everything to it - his job, his family, perhaps even his life. Rarely translated into English, but revered in Japan for the purity of her classical language and her status as the countrys first professional woman writer, Ichiyo Higuchi drew on her own short life in a poor Tokyo neighbourhood to inspire her work. With immense delicacy of phrase and feeling, and vivid evocations of the colourful festivals and salty street banter that mask unspoken yearning and disappointed hopes, she transmits both the beauty and the struggle of working-class womens lives in turn-of-the-century Japan. In her clear-eyed vision of the world, longing and memory may be the only solace.

When Titanic left Southampton in 1912, neither the Aristocrat, The Countess of Rothes, nor the Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, imagined meeting, let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night, among towering icebergs. But Jones put Noel Rothes at the tiller of his boat when he realised her calm capability, and for seven long hours they did all they could to shepherd at least twenty-five others to safety. Their ordeal forged an unlikely affinity that lasted until Noel died in 1956.Angela Young, Noels great-granddaughter, tells the stories of these two courageous Titanic survivors and considers why so very few people survived the tragedy.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand and to write about with unflinching honesty. What emerges is a deeply personal, unsentimental, and often surprising account of life inside the brothel, where Becker explores not just the physical aspects of sex work, but the emotional, psychological, and social complexities that shape it.With frankness and literary insight, she recounts her encounters with clients, her growing self-awareness, and, most poignantly, the friendships and solidarity she finds among the other women who work there. Far from reducing sex work to cliche or voyeurism, Becker gives space to the quiet routines, shared laughter, private pain, and hard-won dignity of a profession often misunderstood and rarely written about from the inside.Part memoir, part sociological study, and wholly literary, La Maison challenges preconceptions about sex, agency, and femininity, offering a provocative and compassionate exploration of what it means to inhabit multiple identitiesas worker, writer, woman, and witness.

Part sequel, part reimagining, and wholly delightful Jodi PicoultAn absolute delight. Funny, moving and filled with heart Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious ThingsIt is a truism, frequently invoked by the members of the Meryton Womens Guild, that one is only ever as happy as ones unhappiest child. So, with five daughters and four grandchildren, it was a miracle Mrs Hester Bennet ever raised a smile. At best, she was only ever tentatively pleased, and even then understood that her contentment rested on the edge of a gaping precipice into which she would inevitably tumble the second Kitty or Lydia (it was almost always those two) messaged in the clutches of yet another existential crisisLydia, home from Paris on New Years Day in a welter of hangover and humiliation, finds herself swearing off drink, drugs and sex for the next 12 months. Through her unfamiliar sobriety, shell see a landmark year for all the Bennet sisters, including a disruptive 40th birthday, an engagement and a funeral: and, maybe, coming to terms with the results of a run-of-the-mill run-in with a jackknifed lorry on a wet stretch of the M1A sharply funny and unexpectedly tender modern sequel to Pride & Prejudice, this is a story of sisterhood, survival, and second chances. For fans of Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton, and anyone whos ever wondered what the Bennet sisters would be like in the age of therapy, WhatsApp, and wellness trends gone rogue.

Hes searching the city. Shes dangling in plain sight.In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

Even in this predominantly secular age, Britains cathedrals remain potent symbols of religious continuity. Their purpose was to reveal Gods majesty, to declare the supremacy of the Church and the devotion of the men who built them. They were intended, literally, to be awesome. Similarly, our medieval abbeys, most of them sad remnants of a glorious past, serve to remind us of the dedication of those who aspired to the monastic ideal. No two cathedrals or abbeys are alike in their conception, location, construction or history, and it is this that gives them their limitless appeal.Informative, knowledgeable and wide-ranging, Stephen Friars study contains over 1,450 entries and explores the features of these places, as well as associated subjects, such as architecture, monuments and church music. Entries on the Anglo-Saxon Church, monasticism, the Reformation, the restoration of the Roman Catholic dioceses and more assist in revealing a wider historical context.Richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, The Companion to Cathedrals and Abbeys is essential reading to new and more seasoned researchers alike.

In the bookshops and cafes of present-day Paris, ex-psychologist Gabe Figaret is trying to put his shattered life back together. When another doctor, Reynard, asks him to help with a delusional female patient, Gabe is reluctant - until he meets her. At first Gabe thinks the woman, Angelina, is merely terrified of Reynard, but he quickly discovers she is not quite what she seems.When Angelina tells Gabe he must kill her and flee to a place she calls Morgravia, he is horrified. But then Angelina shows him that the cathedral he has dreamt about since childhood is real and exists in Morgravia.Soon, Gabes world will be turned upside down, and he will learn shocking truths about who he is . . . and who he can - or cannot - trust.The Scriveners Tale is an action-packed fantasy adventure filled with twists that will keep you guessing until the last page.

Lee writes with unfailing warmth and wisdom. Sarah Waters. A gripping psychological thriller about trauma, revenge and the price of reinvention. In the crumbling seaside town of Hawksbridge, Shona finds kinship with the eccentric Gifford family living illegally in a derelict building. Their stories of survival give her the courage to paint again-until she discovers a body wrapped in carpet, and everything starts to unravel. Richard knows her secrets. Hes documented every shameful detail of her childhood, from the fire she set at fifteen to the deaths that followed. Now hes weaponising that knowledge, jeopardizing her relationships and her future. But Shona has learned something important from the misfits of Hawksbridge: sometimes the only way to break free is to embrace the darkness youve been running from. As New Years Day dawns, Shona faces a choice that will define who she really is. Because some shadows cant be escaped-they can only be owned

Drei Manner, eine Tote und mehr Geheimnisse als in einem Beichtstuhl.Kommissar Franz Josef Bernrieder soll den ratselhaften Tod einer jungen Frau aufklaren, die leblos in einem luxuriosen Pool treibt. Doch die drei Herren, die sie in ihre Urlaubsvilla eingeladen hatten, erzahlen ihm offenbar alle nur einen Bruchteil der Wahrheit.Als einer von ihnen erschossen wird, nimmt der Fall Fahrt auf. Alle Beteiligten versuchen sich gegeneinander auszuspielen, bedauerlicherweise mit maigem Erfolg. Plotzlich ist von Erpressung die Rede, von falschen Identitaten, verschwundenen Frauen, und einem prall gefullten Kryptokonto.Ein verzwickter Fall, bei dem selbst Bernrieders beruhmte Akribie an ihre Grenzen stot und bei dem die Wahrheit so trub ist wie ein aufgewuhlter Bergsee.Haderlumpen ist der siebte Band der erfolgreichen Bayern-Krimi-Serie Bernrieder ermittelt rund um Kommissar Franz Josef Bernrieder aus Bad Tolz. Der spannende und humorvolle Regionalkrimi ist in sich abgeschlossen und eignet sich ideal fur Neueinsteiger in die Reihe.

Want to find the very best places to swim outdoors in London and the South East?In Swimming Wild in South East England, outdoor adventurer Natasha Sones guides you to more than 100 of the finest rivers, lakes, lidos and beaches across London, the Home Counties and beyond. Many locations also feature tempting saunas, so you can extend the wellness benefits of your swim.Each spot is carefully chosen to showcase the regions remarkable variety. Take a dip in an unexpected urban oasis at Londons Canary Wharf, swimming beneath soaring skyscrapers, or escape the city at West Reservoir or the Serpentine Lido. For a more rural experience, head to Oxfordshire for a swim in the Thames, or to Surreys Longside Lake, where lifeguarded blue-green waters are paired with a lakeside sauna.Along the coast, the book highlights both iconic destinations and quieter hidden gems, from St Margarets Bay in Kent beneath the White Cliffs of Dover to Brighton, where classic sea swims sit alongside heated lido dips at Sea Lanes.Drawing on her extensive experience, Natasha shares clear, practical advice on access points, safety, tides and currents, conditions underfoot, and potential hazards. With guidance on essential kit, Ordnance Survey and custom maps, transport and parking details, and cafe recommendations for a well-earned post-swim treat, this book has everything you need.Whether youre a seasoned wild swimmer or just starting out, Swimming Wild in South East England is packed with inspiration for your next adventure.

A Poetry Book Society RecommendationPraising Joe Carrick Vartys debut, the T.S. Eliot Prize judges observed that his work confronts fraught spaces of addiction and domestic violence [its] lyricism shaped by a raw and fragmented reality.His outstanding second collection reflects further on growing up under the cloud of abuse and alcoholism, unfolding compelling patterns as it examines how the past shapes our future lives. Bold and unusual in form, its three gripping long poems look unflinchingly and unforgettably at inheritance, pain and memory.

Northern Ireland is on fire. But rather than attending to the conflict raging around her, the young Sinéad Morrissey is obsessed with the Cold War, East Germany and the utopia of the USSR.Set against the distinctive cultural milieu of Belfast Communism its smoky meeting rooms, protests, marches, sports days, holidays, discos and Party bazaars Among Communists tells a history of the Troubles unlike any other whilst simultaneously charting a young writers journey into poetry.When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, surprising everyone Western Communists most of all Morrisseys family followed suit and fell apart. This memoir charts those personal and political earthquakes, weaving together a lyrical exploration of familial love, belief, contrariness and loss, and of the galvanising power of sudden endings to make and re-make the past.