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In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates “the River,” the community of like-minded people whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. By immersing himself in the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and many others, Silver offers insight into a range of issues that affect us all, from the frontiers of finance to the future of AI. Most of us don’t have traits commonly found in the River: high tolerance for risk, appreciation of uncertainty, affinity for numbers—paired with an instinctive distrust of conventional wisdom and a competitive drive so intense it can border on irrational. For those in the River, complexity is baked in, and the work is how to navigate it. People in the River have increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society, and understanding their mindset—and the flaws in their thinking— is key to understanding what drives technology and the global economy today. Taking us behind the scenes from casinos to venture capital firms, and from the FTX inner sanctum to meetings of the effective altruism movement, On the Edge is a deeply reported, all-access journey into a hidden world of power bro­kers and risk-takers.

Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there’s no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don’t the police come and investigate? When the local priest’s housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight—and one of the world’s most ruthless criminal syndicates—The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

When we’re unhappy in our jobs, we often attribute our frustration to a bad manager, boring tasks, and stressful workloads. But our dissatisfaction at work usually stems from a deeper psychological need that’s not being met at work, like not getting the recognition you deserve. In Job Therapy, Dr. Tessa West helps you figure out the real reason you’re unhappy and shows you how to find a new position in which you’ll thrive, whether in a different role, company, or new industry altogether.

The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus. Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide. What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.

«El tren hizo una parada en una estación sin pueblo, y poco después pasó frente a la única finca bananera del camino que tenia el nombre escrito en el portal: Macondo. Esta palabra me había llamado la atención desde los primeros viajes con el abuelo, pero sólo de adulto descubrí que me gustaba su resonancia poética. Nunca se lo escuché a nadie ni me pregunté siquiera qué significaba.» Compendio y recreación de un tiempo crucial para Carcía Márquez, Vivir para contarla ofrece el recuento de sus años de infancia y juventud, aquellos en los que se fundaría el imaginario que más tarde daría lugar a relatos imprescindi­bles. Novela de una vida, en sus páginas emocionantes va descubriendo ecos de personajes e historias que poblaron su obra, lo que la convierte en una guía de lectura, una com­pañía indispensable para iluminar pasajes inolvidables que, tras el disfrute de estas memorias entrañables, adquie­ren una nueva perspectiva.

Una mujer recien casada anhela, irracionalmente, un paraguas de seda; un esposo parece sentir celos del apego que tiene su esposa hacia un gato e intenta desprenderse de el; una madre traicionada despide impulsivamente a su empleada domestica. Bajo la superficie de estos cuentos que observan con precisión el amor, el matrimonio y la vida familiar en la Copenhague de mediados del siglo XX, laten corrientes de deseo, violencia y desesperación, mientras mujeres y hombres sueñan con escapar de sus roles convencionales sin entender realmente que significa ese perverso anhelo al que llamamos felicidad.áá En última instancia, en esta magnífica colección de cuentos Tove Ditlevsen consigue encarnar la complejidad de la vida y la lucha de las mujeres por encontrar su lugar en una sociedad que a menudo las margina. Relatos tan ácidos como conmovedores, que ofrecen una visión realista de cuestiones cotidianas como la pareja o la maternidad, pero tambien de temas como la soledad, el abuso, la infidelidad y la depresión.

Princesa, esto no es una carta para vos (¿que te puedo decir que ya no te haya dicho, de bueno y de malo?), sino que, como otras veces, utilizo tu imagen de interlocutor privilegiado para desarrollar mi monólogo de búsqueda, buscando precisamente que tu imagen me ayude a no salirme demasiado de la razón". Entre 1987 y 1989, mientras Mario Levrero vivía en Buenos Aires, trabajando en revistas de crucigramas para conseguir el dinero suficiente que le permitiera comprar lo que más anhelaba: tiempo para dedicarse a escribir, inició un romance con Alicia Hoppe, quien había sido la mujer de un viejo amigo y, más tarde, su medica personal, que lo acompañó durante años en sus devenires psicosomáticos. En ese momento, ella residía en Colonia, y estas cartas son testimonio del inicio y crecimiento de ese amor adulto y, tambien, registro literario de las obsesiones, temores e ilusiones de un singular escritor, con un poder de observación y análisis extraordinario.

Inglaterra, 1881. El joven médico Simeon Lee acude a la llamada de su primo enfermo en la isla de Ray. El pastor Howes está convencido de que ha sido envenenado por su cuñada Florence, quien, tras ser acusada de matar a su esposo, vive encerrada en una habitación con paredes de cristal en la biblioteca de la mansión. California, 1939. Todo apunta a que el escritor Oliver Tooke se ha suicidado, pero su amigo Ken Kourian no lo tiene claro, por lo que se sumerge en una investigación que lo lleva al secuestro del hermano de Oliver cuando ambos eran niños. Para descubrir la verdad, Ken deberá descifrar las pistas escondidas en la última novela de su amigo, Relojes de cristal, un libro con dos relatos capicúa sobre un joven médico llamado Simeon Lee.

When Getting Things Done was published in 2001, it was a game changer. By revealing the principles of healthy high performance at an individual level, it transformed the experience of work and leisure for millions. Twenty years later, it has become clear that the best way to build on that success is at the team level, and one of the most frequently asked questions by dedicated GTD users is how to get an entire team onboard. By building on the effectiveness of what GTD does for individuals, Team will offer a better way of working in an organization, while simultaneously nourishing a culture that allows individuals’ skills to flourish. Using case studies from some of the world’s largest and most successful companies, Team shows how leaders have employed the principles of team productivity to improve communication, enable effective execution, and reduce stress on team members. These principles are increasingly important in the post-pandemic workplace, where the very nature of how people work together has changed so dramatically. Team is the most significant addition to the GTD canon since the original, and in offering a roadmap for building a culture of healthy high performance, will be welcomed by readers working in any sized group or organization.