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La novela definitiva sobre el genio olvidado que iluminó el mundo. Una deliciosa e intensa novela sobre el científico visionario Nikola Tesla. Una gran aventura. La historia que pudo ser. Nueva York, 1931. Edgar, un joven de diecinueve años que aspira a ser un piloto de los oceánicos, las grandes líneas transatlánticas, descubrirá la verdad tras la falsa versión oficial: Thomas Edison no es el auténtico padre de la tecnología que ha revolucionado el mundo, y su verdadero creador, Nikola Tesla, permanece olvidado, viviendo en una habitación de hotel sin que nadie conozca su existencia. Por puro azar, pero espoleado por el deseo de aventura y justicia, Edgar se involucrará en una organización que busca devolver al genio a primera línea, a pesar del férreo control que la banca y la gran industria mantienen sobre todos los medios. Pero una célula tesliana con espurios intereses prepara un atentado que puede hacer caer en el caos al mundo civilizado y la fecha podría coincidir con el gran funeral de Edison, en el que se espera la asistencia de jefes de Estado y representantes de todo el planeta.

A modo de testamento poético, el gran maestro Ángel García López cuestiona en este nuevo libro la deriva lamentable emprendida por la poesía española última, donde falsos poetas han usurpado las riendas de la lírica. Apoyado en una declaración del también poeta y editor Abelardo Linares: «La casa de la Poesía es una casa en la que los okupas han echado a los poetas y se han quedado a vivir ahí», 'Testamento hecho en Wátani' levanta los faldones a la falacia para descubrir esa triste realidad. Y lo hace con esa poesía proteica que es capaz de recrear el lenguaje y convertir el verso en una creación magistral donde confluyen armónicamente la forma y el contenido.

Orikuchi Shinobu fue un lingüista, etnólogo, folclorista, novelista y poeta japonés. Referente de la crítica literaria nacional y de los estudios del folclore en las primeras décadas del siglo xx, este personaje no estuvo exento de polémica por su asociación con el militarismo japonés, su adicción a la cocaína y su homosexualidad declarada. El presente volumen recoge la primera recopilación del trabajo de estudio y traducción sobre la figura de Orikuchi Shinobu con una serie de ensayos y traducciones publicados por primera vez en español, algunos de ellos sin referente en otras lenguas europeas. Esta obra pretende no solo cubrir un hueco de conocimiento necesario en la niponología hispana, sino también reevaluar la obra, la figura y el legado de este autor.

Throughout your life, you’ve been slowly indoctrinated to believe that money is the only type of wealth. In reality, your wealthy life may involve money, but in the end, it will be defined by everything else. After three years of research, personal experimentation, and thousands of interviews across the globe, Sahil Bloom has created a groundbreaking blueprint to build your life around five types of wealth: Time Wealth, Social Wealth, Mental Wealth, Physical Wealth, and Financial Wealth. A life of true fulfillment engages all five types—working dynamically, in concert across the seasons of your journey.

In recent years, neither the persistent effort to “clean up” the racial epithets in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel’s wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of a turbulent, yet hopeful epoch in American history, defining the experience of a nation in voices often satirical, but always authentic.

Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy. Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into painting a fence, playing pirates with his pal Huck Finn, witnessing his own funeral, or helping to catch a murderer. Twain’s novel glows with nostalgia for the Mississippi River towns of his youth and sparkles with his famous humor, but it is also woven throughout with a subtle awareness of the injustices and complexities of the old South that Twain so memorably portrays.

The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war.

Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana.

She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods. There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.” And he wants to be able to die. In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own. In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul-stirring narrative, these two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.