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Elucidates the problematic impact of influential development metanarratives on different actors as well as policy and practice on sustainability challenges This title is also available as open acces

Un romance coreano de oficina.La nueva subdirectora es la comidilla de la oficina: es capaz, atractiva... ¡¿y salió con Tae-Moo en el pasado?! Cuando Hari descubre que Chae Seo-jin tiene todo un historial con su novio, entra en panico y se llena de inseguridades. ¿Es este el comienzo de un complicado triangulo amoroso en la oficina o simplemente un gran malentendido?

A new selection of Dylan Thomas s greatest stories taking us through the landmarks of the year in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics editionFor a boy growing up in an ordinary town in Wales summer is always radiant rainless lazily rowdy and skyblue and it always snows at Christmas Weaving through the course of a year this selection of Dylan Thomas s most evocative and bittersweet stories depicts silent winter mornings by the sea glorious holidays in the countryside and lovelorn nights in the pub It ends with A Child s Christmas in Wales perhaps the most beautiful story of the festive season ever written

Learn how circular economies can optimize business models to regenerate rather than waste and degrade resources

Learn how circular economies can optimize business models to regenerate rather than waste and degrade resources

Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical folk and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service in this official Radio 3 compendium Music transports us and defines us As a form of expression it has been passed down through oral tradition musical notation and recordings in a chain of connection that spans the globe across the millennia A History of the World in 50 Pieces follows that chain collating 50 pieces of classical music that reflect our changing politics social structures and technological development and how composers musicians and listeners have shaped those currents of history From Bach to Beethoven Songlines to Saariaho Hildegard of Bingen to the Happy Birthday song Tom Service offers a fresh take on pieces that many of us think we know and many more we might not With each short sharp analysis he expands the typical canon and tests the boundaries of what we understand to be classical music or even music at all such as the sounds of the earth s rotation and the songs of humpback whales An official BBC Radio 3 publication A History of the World in 50 Pieces is a book for anyone curious about the power of music and how it shapes us and connects us

Alfaguara continúa con la publicación de una obra cumbre de la literatura universal del siglo XX: la gran saga narrativa sobre la memoria, el paso del tiempo y los paraísos perdidos. «La traducción d

Una biografía que rescata la vida y el legado de una mujer adelantada a su tiempo. Tras “Vocación de libertad”, la colección Biografías incorpora un nuevo título esta vez dedicado a María Goyri, una

The arc of literary giant John Updike s life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family friends editors and lovers a remarkable outpouring over six decades from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final daysIn the words of his contemporary Philip Roth John Updike was Our time s greatest man of letters as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short story writer Over the course of his long and immensely productive career he also proved himself a brilliant correspondent his letters filled with comic observations opinions and personal news told in his characteristically elegant and exquisitely fluid style In this sparkling selection of his letters edited by James Schiff we can see Updike in real time capturing every stage of his unspooling life from Pennsylvania farm boy to Pulitzer prizewinner and from young father negotiating his first book contract to the bestselling writer he became following the international success of his novels Couples and the Rabbit sequence Here are letters to family friends editors and lovers a remarkable outpouring over six decades including most movingly perhaps the letters of his final year bidding farewell to children colleagues and friends Taken together these

Una comedia negra que toma como punto de arranque la muerte de un hombre... La muerte de Adam Berendt, perteneciente a un elitista grupo residente en Salthill-on-Hudson, un pueblecito idílico a media hora de tren de Nueva York, desata una serie de reacciones entre sus amigos y amigas, todos ricos, hermosos, y de mediana edad. Adam Berendt se habia convertido en un puntal de la elitista y aburrida sociedad de Salthill. Solido, no tan rico pero solvente, con el atractivo que emana de la honestidad, la mayoria de mujeres de la comunidad se habian enamorado de el en un momento u otro. Su absurda y repentina muerte (se ahoga en el rio para salvar a una niña) deja a los habitantes de Salthill perplejos y enfrentados a su propia vida. Quiza la mas afectada por la tragedia sea Marina Troy, cuarentona propietaria de la libreria local, cuya gran ambicion fue siempre ser escultora. La muerte de Adam la obliga a relacionarse con Roger Cavanagh, su abogado, y a rechazarle como amante. Otra pareja de amigos de Adam, Camille y Lionel Hoffman, viven tambien su peculiar duelo. Camille, platonicamente enamorada del muerto, ve como Lionel la abandona para irse con su joven amante y ejecutara su personalisima venganza. Abigail des Pres, divorciada, madre de un hijo

The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum Guinness and the flushing toilet In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday How did this vast land long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures come to be dominated by English speakers How has it grappled with the stark contradictions between its ideals of liberty and the grim reality of genocide and slavery This extraordinary collection of fifty distinct states has weathered immense and recent challenges including a Civil War that was still raging as the first London Underground station opened How did this melting pot of peoples and ideas not only endure but rise to dominate global politics commerce culture and warfare What insights does this rich history offer about an increasingly divided nation and the world that moves to its rhythm Is this the twilight of American supremacy signalling a shift toward a more introspective nation A Short History of America is rich with vivid characters from arrogant conquistadors and idealistic revolutionaries to imperial presidents and presents a narrative so astonishing it often feels like fake news This is a gripping must read for anyone seeking to make sense of our world today

nstant New York Times bestsellerExquisite and devastating. It wont fail to move you Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the SunHer beauty hides a deadly purpose . . .Since birth, Xishis extraordinary beauty has been seen as a blessing. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighbouring kingdom, improve the lives of her people and avenge her sisters murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy and seduce their immoral king.What neither Xishi nor Fanli expects is the doomed attraction that ignites between them. Even worse, Xishi soon finds herself under the hungry gaze of the king and his advisors. A brutality lurks behind his gentleness, and Xishi knows she can never let her guard down. But the higher she climbs in the court, the further she and Fanli have to fall. And if she is unmasked as a traitor, she will bring both kingdoms down . . .

In A State of Siege Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait After the death of her invalid mother Malfred Signal a retired New Zealand art teacher leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub tropical island in the north Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the room two inches behind the eyes But the solitude she has sought mocks her with echoes of her past when one stormy night an intruder pounds ceaselessly and inexplicably on her door Propulsive yet poignant A State of Siege is a mesmerizing exploration of the artistic process of selfhood and loneliness and of death and its counterpart the need to survive to live

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Discover the original and uplifting sensation for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and KLARA AND THE SUNEngaging, touching, subtly disturbing K-Lit ReviewA stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions Kim Bo-youngA dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without leaving anyone or anything behind Choi Jin-young, author of To the Warm HorizonFrom its perch on top of a pile of junk inside a shed, Coli, a robot with powerful observational qualities, waits patiently for someone to find it.Coli is special among AI robots. This is because Coli has the capacity for emotion.Today, Coli is feeling particularly in awe of the sky in all its wondrous shades of blue.

A carousel-style children’s book that unfolds into 3D scenes of the Moominhouse through the seasons.

Abans més que encara és un poemari que reflexiona sobre el pas del temps, la memòria i les ferides que deixen empremta. Mireia Calafell construeix una veu poètica íntima i contundent, que s’interroga

Silvia Nanclares y María Hesse abrazan la revolución íntima que desencadena la llegada de un bebé en un libro rebosante de caos, ternura y sinceridad. Hay libros que se leen con los ojos, otros con l

Pepa Blanes vuelve con un libro que trata muchos delos temas importantes de la actualidad de la mano delcine y las series.Si crees que la memoria histórica es un tema manido,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que Occidente es la leche,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que Barbie es un blockbuster mas,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que lo binario son 1,0,1,0,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que los cuidados estan bien repartidos entresexos, ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees en el vivir para trabajar,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que el amor romantico es lo unico,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que lo sabes todo y que a ti nunca te engañan,ABRE LOS OJOS.Si crees que tu relacion con la Tierra no tieneimportancia,ABRE LOS OJOS.