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"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. In a novel in which she perfects the interior monologue and recapitulates the life cycle in the hours of the day, from first light to the dark of night, Woolf achieves an uncanny simulacrum of consciousness, bringing past, present, and future together, and recording, impression by impression, minute by minute, the feel of life itself.

Ambición, matrimonio, adulterio, sacrificio y venganza: la historia amorosa de la temperamental y apasionada Catalina Asencio. 35 aniversario de Arráncame la vida, la clásica obra que consagró a Ángeles Mastretta como una de las voces más originales y potentes de la literatura hispanoamericana.    «Una tarde fui a ver a la gitana que vivía por el barrio de La Luz y tenía fama de experta en amores. Había una fila de gente esperando turno. Cuando por fin me tocó pasar, ella se sentó frente a mí y me preguntó qué quería saber. Le dije muy seria: »—Quiero sentir».

McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency. McKinsey's vaunted statement of values asserts that its role is to make the world a better place, and its reputation for excellence and discretion attracts top talent from universities around the world. But what does it actually do? In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of its executives who hire it, at the expense of workers and safety measures. McKinsey collects millions of dollars advising government agencies that also regulate McKinsey's corporate clients. And the firm frequently advises competitors in the same industries, but denies that this presents any conflict of interest. In one telling example, McKinsey advised a Chinese engineering company allied with the communist government which constructed artificial islands, now used as staging grounds for the Chinese Navy—while at the same time taking tens of millions of dollars from the Pentagon, whose chief aim is to counter Chinese aggression. Shielded by NDAs, McKinsey has escaped public scrutiny despite its role in advising tobacco and vaping companies, purveyors of opioids, repressive governments, and oil companies. McKinsey helped insurance companies' boost their profits by making it incredibly difficult for accident victims to get payments; worked its U.S. government contacts to let Wall Street firms evade scrutiny; enabled corruption in developing countries such as South Africa; undermined health-care programs in states across the country. And much more. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a landmark work of investigative reporting that amounts to a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.

Hilarante sátira de la sociedad y política norteamericanas en torno a su documentada creencia en la presencia de extraterrestres en la Tierra. Apoyándose en la documentada creencia del 80% de la población norteamericana de que su gobierno le ha ocultado, durante largo tiempo, información concerniente a la presencia de extraterrestres en el planeta Tierra, Christopher Buckley realiza una excelente sátira que gira en torno a la estupidez y al tedio vital que permean el American way of life, en la que todos, desde el presidente de los Estados Unidos hasta, por supuesto, sus gobernados, son objeto del escrutinio y burla de su hilarante pluma.

Un diario no se puede reescribir, porque hacerlo sería vestir lo que fue con recuerdos mentirosos. Lo que sí se puede es afilar las palabras con la herramienta de la experiencia y el aprendizaje del tiempo para ayudar a aquellos que fuimos a contar con certeza aquello que fue. Es lo que hace en esta revisión de su primer libro Rayden con las cuatro estaciones que lo componen: afinarlas como quien afina un piano y componer la última estrofa de una canción que empezó a sonar ocho años atrás.

In today’s constantly changing world, you have to be smart to get ahead. But the average person uses only about two percent of their mental ability. How can we learn to unleash our brain’s full potential to maximize our opportunities, like the most successful people do? In Get Smart!, acclaimed success expert and bestselling author Brian Tracy reveals simple, proven ways to tap into our natural thinking talents and abilities and make quantum leaps toward achieving our dreams. In this indispensable guide, you’ll learn to:   · Train your brain to think in ways that create successful results · Recognize and exploit growth opportunities in any situation · Identify and eliminate negative patterns holding you back · Plan, act, and achieve goals with greater precision and speed   Whether you want to increase sales, bolster creativity, or better navigate life’s unexpected changes, Get Smart! will help you tap into your powerful mental resources to obtain the results you want and reap the rewards successful people enjoy.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position... Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...

París, 1817. En una pensión "de clase media", regentada con economía por una viuda, coinciden los desechos de la sociedad parisina y los jóvenes que sueñan con entrar en ella. En el último piso, el más barato, viven puerta por puerta un anciano que amasó una fortuna fabricando fideos y que, habiendo casado esplendidamente a sus hijas, ahora es menospreciado por ellas, y un estudiante de provincias que apenas tiene para unos guantes amarillos con los que triunfar en un baile. Un tercer huesped, el misterioso Vautrin, que detecta la ambición del estudiante, le propone un tortuoso crimen que podría enriquecerlo de la noche a la mañana.El pobre Goriot (1835), una de las novelas más justamente celebres de la historia de la literatura, enfrenta a dos hombres en los dos extremos de la vida: el anciano que la concluye en la ingratitud y la ruina y el joven que se abre a ella resistiendose a aceptar que habrá de elegir entre la virtud y la corrupción. "¡Ay, sepalo el lector, este drama no es una ficción ni una novela! & x02013;dice Balzac en las primeras páginas& x02013; ¡es tan verdadero que todos pueden reconocer los elementos que hay en el en su casa y quizá en su corazón!

La segunda a la derecha y todo seguido hasta el amanecer». Allí se haya el país de Nunca Jamás, territorio de la eterna juventud, de sueños, hadas, piratas… Porque allí habitan inolvidables personajes: Peter Pan, Wendy, Campanilla y el capitán Garfio, entre otros. En una lucha entre el bien el mal, la venganza y la amistad, la luz y las sombras, y a través de inauditas e imaginativas aventuras, todos ellos nos conducen por la senda del tiempo y la existencia más humana; ellos nos recuerdan al niño que fuimos y al adulto que a veces no queremos ser. Y es que, en el fondo, nuestras vidas no son otra cosa que un eterno retorno al país de Nunca Jamás. Y ahora, lector, deja volar tu imaginación…