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Esta es la historia de una familia amarrada por una trama obsesiva, entre la precariedad del cuerpo, sus males incesantes y la inminencia de la pérdida. En esta particular biografía clínica de todo un clan, cada miembro va eludiendo los embates de la vida con ansiedad, con afecto, con resentimiento y violencia,con culpa, con imaginación, con chispazos de humor negro. Y con malentendidos que hacen saltar los circuitos del nerviososistema familiar. El pasado y el presente orbitan por estas páginas narradas desde la perspectiva de una protagonista que, radicada en el extranjero, mantiene un equívoco contacto consu familia mientras intenta escribir una tesis astronómica y va internándose por agujeros negros cada vez más profundos.

The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand – with partners and children, homes and dreams. And secrets, the sisters have those too. But when Kate, the eldest, finally returns to buy her late grandfather's home, the dark things each sister has kept buried soon rise to the surface. Is Kate having unexplained visions tied to a past she can hardly recall? Is Aurora, the married mother of two, finally acting out in the face of her sisters' indiscretions? Is Peggy, the youngest and a recovering addict, able to move on from the memories that haunt her?

A bizarre sleeping sickness called Aurora has fallen over the world. Its victims can’t wake up. And all of them are women. As nations fall into chaos, those women still awake take desperate measures to stay that way, and men everywhere begin to give in to their darkest impulses. Meanwhile, in the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods. She calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage in her wake. Strangest of all, she’s the only woman who can wake up.

When Jessica Chen entered the workforce, she felt like everything she had been taught growing up in a Quiet Culture household—where deference, humility, harmony, and dogged hard work were praised—failed to set her up for success in the “real world.” Her ingrained values were in direct contrast with what was actually needed to stand out in a Loud Culture workplace. The result? Feeling underappreciated, passed over for opportunities and promotions, and completely stuck. Building on the lessons she learned as an award-winning TV news journalist, Chen—who now speaks at Fortune 100 companies and whose LinkedIn Learning courses have been watched by over 2 million people—introduces a new way of getting noticed at work, without being loud, aggressive, or boastful. In Smart, Not Loud, Chen teaches readers how they can look within, to the values they already hold, to more effectively show up.

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En el presente texto, publicado en 1810 en el Berliner Abendblätter, Kleist narra su encuentro con un célebre artista que confiesa ver en el teatro de marionetas una for­ma de arte superior incluso a la danza humana. Los ingrávidos títeres de los espectáculos populares se convierten así no sólo en símbolo de la gracia, sino también de otro estadio de la existencia libre del peso de la conciencia que lastra al ser humano. El presente volumen incluye además otros textos breves relacionados con el teatro, la pintura, el pensamiento y la música en los que Kleist pone de manifiesto la fragilidad del espíritu ante las fuerzas inconscientes que subyacen a la voluntad humana. Asi­mismo, Víctor Molina ofrece una enriquecedora lectura de «Sobre el teatro de marionetas», texto de culto para varias generaciones de artistas escénicos, poetas y pensadores.