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Los demonios es sin duda alguna una de las grandes novelas de Dostoyevski y una de las que más intensamente interpela al lector de nuestros días. Dostoyevski la escribió horrorizado por la muerte de un terrorista, Ivánov, asesinado por sus compañeros de lucha de la banda de Necháyev. El escritor decidió exhibir lo que era el terrorismo en una novela-advertencia. Pocas veces la literatura ha penetrado tanto en la conciencia de los terroristas como en Los demonios. Dostoyevski sabía bien de qué hablaba. Él mismo había participado en el Círculo Petrashevski antes de que la policía lo desmantelara y condenara a sus miembros a la muerte. El día de Nochebuena de 1849, tras un simulacro de ejecución, las autoridades penales anunciaron que habían cambiado el veredicto. El escritor, traumatizado para el resto de su vida, fue condenado a un campo de trabajos forzados en Siberia, en lo que sería un ensayo para el gulag soviético décadas después. Al adentrarse en la mente del terrorista, Dostoyevski describe en Los demonios una generación de jóvenes revolucionarios rusos dispuestos a "sacrificarse y sacrificarlo todo a la verdad". Pero como dice el mismo autor, "toda la cuestión está en qué se considera como verdad. Para ponerlo en claro, precisamente, he escrito esta novela". Los demonios se convierte así en una de las novelas más modernas del siglo XIX, y se puede leer en clave de una defensa de la libertad alejada de todos los fanatismos, y como una crítica acérrima, una advertencia y una premonición del Estado totalitario que tardaría medio siglo en producirse.

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.

Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don’t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something “perfect.” Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins’ new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community?

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and providing irrefutable proof of ownership. NFTs open up markets that have never before existed, and are already revolutionizing commerce and brand-building at everything from hot startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kominers and Kaczynski have created a framework that explains what NFTs are, why they’re valuable, and how businesses can leverage them to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around their products and brands. Through original research and industry experience, Kominers and Kaczynski describe the possibilities of this new digital frontier with clarity and rigor. The Everything Token is the essential primer on this innovation that has the potential to transform all aspects of business.

Now is the best time in history for entrepreneurship. More than ever, the world needs new businesses and it’s cheaper than ever to create them. And, let’s be frank: most day jobs suck. People spend too much time doing too much work for too little money—and they know it. They want out. But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few entrepreneurs actually running them?

A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future. Memory, Dr. Ranganath shows, is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks, like finding our keys, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What’s more, when we work with the brain’s ability to learn and reinterpret past events, we can heal trauma, shed our biases, learn faster, and grow in self-awareness.