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A beautiful gift edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don''t have leaders.Granny Weatherwax was the most highly regarded of the leaders they didn''t have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...

'Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!' But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got 24 hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...

La cuarta novela protagonizada por Tiffany Dolorido y los Nac Mac Feegle, cierre de esta encantadora subserie del Mundodisco pensada para los lectores más jóvenes (y para los no tan jóvenes), que se inicio conLos pequeños hombres libres y siguio enUn sombrero de cielo yLa corona de hielo.Con casi dieciseis años, Tiffany Dolorido ya es una bruja en pleno derecho. Ha pasado varios años estudiando con brujas veteranas y ahora ejerce el oficio sola en su tierra natal, la Caliza. Lleva a cabo esas partes de la brujeria que no son nada divertidas ni glamurosas, no hacen saltar chispas, no tienen nada que ver con varitas, y de las que rara vez se oye hablar: cuida a los necesitados.Pero alguien, o algo, esta fomentando el miedo, inculcando oscuras ideas contra las brujas y resucitando rumores muy desagradables sobre ellas. De repente, el simple hecho de llevar un sombrero puntiagudo puede traer muchos problemas. Aun peor, todo apunta a que el culpable sea un misterioso fantasma que esta persiguiendo a una joven bruja en especial. Y ya casi ha dado con ella...Con la ayuda de sus diminutos aliados azules, Tiffany debera encontrar y acabar con este malestar atacando su raiz. Porque si Tiffany cae, la Caliza entera caera con ella.La critica ha dicho...Tiffany, la bruja adolescente, es una de las creaciones [de Pratchett] mas extraordinarias hasta el momento.Time OutAunque sabe bien como tejer una historia, lo realmente divertido en los libros de Pratchett es su inventiva, que la podemos ver linea a linea [...] Y, escribiendo mejor que nunca, nos hace reir unmonton.The Sunday Times

The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy. Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against them by Omnians, who say that the Wizards' god-like actions make a mockery of their noble religion. As the finest legal brains in Discworld (a zombie and a priest) gird their loins to do battle - and when the Great Big Thing in the High Energy Magic Laboratory is switched on - Marjorie Daw finds herself thrown across the multiverse and right in the middle of the whole explosive affair. As God, the Universe and, frankly, Everything Else is investigated by the trio, you can expect world-bearing elephants, quantum gravity in the Escher-verse, evolutionary design, eternal inflation, dark matter, disbelief systems - and an in-depth study of how to invent a better mousetrap.

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.But just because the Disc is different doesnt mean that some things dont stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea.

Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake . . . And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you''re 13, but also just a little bit . . . cool. And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglecting your chores. So Tiffany must look after Miss Treason, who''s 113 and has far too many eyes, learn the secret of Boffo, catch Horace the cheese, stop the gods from seeing her in the bath ''Crivens!'' Oh, yes, and be helped by the Nac Mac Feegles - whether she wants it or not. But if Tiffany doesn''t work it all out, there will never be another springtime . . .

The third Discworld novel. They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts. In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard -- by mistake. Everybody knows that there''s no such thing as a female wizard. But now it''s gone and happened, there''s nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle of the sexes begin.

It seemed an easy jobAfter all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn''t marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple... Servant girls have to marry the prince. That''s what life is all about. You can''t fight a Happy Ending. At least - up until now

''A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.'' From, "The Fifth Elephant". ''Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.'' From, "Moving Pictures. The Discworld is filled with a vast and diverse population - from witches to vampires and from the fiendish to the foolish, it is a world in which magical books can devour the unsuspecting, and Death can escape to the country for some time off. "The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld" is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. ''Un matrimonio siempre esta hecho de dos personas que estan dispuestas a jurar que es solo el otro el que ronca''. De "The Fifth Elephant". ''En el interior de cada persona mayor hay una persona joven que se pregunta que le ha pasado''. De "Moving Pictures". Mundodisco esta poblado por una vasta y diversa suma de habitantes, desde brujas a vampiros y desde lo mas malvado hasta lo mas estupido: este es un mundo en el que los libros magicos pueden devorar al distraido, y donde la Muerte puede hacer alguna escapadita al campo por un tiempo. "The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld" es una recopilacion de los dichos mas sabios, ingeniosos y sustanciales de este extraordinario universo, analizados uno a uno por cada libro del canon.