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Obra cumbre, junto a Ana Karenina, de Lev Tolstói y de la narrativa del XIX, Guerra y paz constituye un vasto fresco histórico y épico.Con la campaña napoleónica contra Rusia como trasfondo -Austerliz, Borodino o el incendio de Moscú- entre los años 1805 y 1813, se nos cuenta la historia de dos familias de la nobleza rusa, los Bolkonski y los Rostov, protagonistas de un mundo que empieza a escenificar su propia desaparición.

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.

In 1995, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin re-defined the next thirty years of currency policy with the mantra, “A strong dollar is in America’s interest.” That mantra held, ushering in exceptional prosperity and cheap foreign goods, but the strong dollar policy also played a role in the devastating hollowing out of America’s manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, abroad, the United States increasingly turned to the dollar as a weapon of war. In Paper Soldiers, Saleha Mohsin reveals how the Treasury Department has shaped U.S. policy at home and overseas by wielding the American dollar as a weapon—and what that means in a new age of crisis. For decades, America has preferred its currency superpower-strong, the basis of a “strong dollar” policy that attracted foreign investors and pleased consumers. Drawing on Mohsin’s unparalleled access to current and former Treasury officials like Robert Rubin, Steven Mnuchin, and Janet Yellen, Paper Soldiers traces that policy’s intended and unintended consequences, including the rise of populist sentiment and trade war with China—culminating in an unprecedented attack on the dollar’s pristine status during the Trump presidency—and connects the dollar’s weaponization from 9/11 to the deployment of crippling financial sanctions against Russia. Ultimately, Mohsin argues that, untethered from many of the economic assumptions of the last generation, the power and influence of the American dollar is now at stake. With first-hand reporting and fresh analysis that illustrates the vast, often unappreciated power that the Treasury Department wields at home and abroad, Paper Soldiers tells the inside story of how we really got here—and the future not only of the almighty dollar, but the nation’s teetering role as a democratic superpower.

If you're injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you've caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live—which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.

Inédita hasta ahora en español, pese a que está considerada una de las grandes novelas del premio Nobel de Literatura Sinclair Lewis, "Dodsworth" enfrenta los modales y la moral de los estadounidenses con la de los europeos durante el primer tercio del siglo XX. Ambientada en la Europa de entreguerras, narra el viaje por Europa de Sam Dodsworth, un empresario diseñador de automóviles, y su esposa, Fran Voelker, seducida por la frivolidad de la decadente aristocracia del antiguo continente, lo que comienza a separar al matrimonio. A lo largo de un itinerario por Francia, Gran Bretaña, Italia, Austria, Hungría, Alemania e incluso España, la pareja se va distanciando paulatinamente. Él se convierte en un turista solitario, mientras ella se involucra cada vez más en la ajetreada vida social de las grandes familias, que ocultan su ruina entre bailes de salón. Llevada al cine en 1936 por William Wyler, con Walter Huston y Ruth Chatterton como protagonistas, la película logró siete nominaciones a los Óscars.

¿Qué nos une con el pasado de nuestra familia? Según Amy Kurzweil, conocer a alguien es como conocer un lenguaje. A través de un elaborado proceso de escritura que fluctúa entre el presente y el pasado, en este visionario cómic Kurzweil recoge la historia de tres generaciones de su familia, unidas por el amor, el arte y la inteligencia artificial en una búsqueda que quiere trascender los límites de la vida y desafiar los límites del tiempo.

ntre abril y septiembre de 1966, los lunes, de manera quincenal, Borges tomó en Constitución el tren a Mar del Plata para dar clases como profesor de la cátedra de Literatura inglesa y norteamericana de la Universidad Católica local, que luego sería provincial y, más adelante, nacional. Allí lo esperaban, expectantes, los estudiantes del curso, menos de una decena, que se organizaron para grabar y transcribir sus clases. A ese público "cautivo" que conformaría la primera camada de profesores locales en Letras, se sumaba otro de oyentes entusiastas. En este libro, basado en esas transcripciones, la personalísima perspectiva de Borges sobre la literatura cristaliza en su original e iluminadora visión de Chaucer, Langland, More, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Johnson, Gibbon, Macpherson, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Dickens, Browning, Stevenson, Shaw, Kipling, Chesterton, entre otros. En todos los casos resuena el registro vital de su voz en el aula, con su estilo, cadencia y humor. Al mismo tiempo, opera una constante: su modo de leer único, didáctico e innovador, que sitúa a autores, textos y contextos en clave de fragmentos del mosaico infinito de la cultura universal.