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In a world overcrowded with labels, don’t allow your identity to be defined by other people. Learn how to take back your power, choose to feed the aspects of your identity that serve you, and let go of those that don’t. Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life—when we walk into a room and think to ourselves, “I don’t belong here.” To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity. You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves.

A veinte años del exilio familiar de Japón a Estados Unidos, Nanae llama por teléfono a Minae para recordárselo, y así un torbellino de recuerdos y reflexiones envuelve a las hermanas tal como el temporal de nieve que arrecia en esa noche cercana a fin de año: las rígidas costumbres japonesas frente a las engañosas libertades norteamericanas; las dificultades para encontrar un lugar en el mundo; el conflicto con la lengua materna; los sacrificios que implica la creación; la soledad inherente a todo exilio y el dilema desgarrador de volver o no a la tierra natal. Con su prosa sobria, inteligente y a la vez íntima, Mizumura nos acerca a su mundo y al hacerlo nos ofrece un reflejo de las condiciones de nuestro presente, signado por el movimiento y la negación del pasado.

Sonya recibe la noticia de que su difunto padre tenía un hermano gemelo poco después de romper su compromiso matrimonial y perder su trabajo, así que, cuando descubre que su tío desconocido le ha dejado en herencia una mansión victoriana en la costa de Maine, decide instalarse en ella para descubrir por qué los niños fueron separados al nacer y la razón por la que todo se mantuvo en secreto. La joven no tarda en darse cuenta de que en la casa ocurren cosas muy extrañas. Trey, el abogado amigo de la familia que la ayuda a instalarse, le confirma que el lugar está embrujado y le habla de Astrid, «la primera novia perdida», cuyo retrato decora el despacho de su tío. Sonya también ha heredado una maldición centenaria y un enigma que debe resolver para romperla.

The Stoics understood that if you can control your reactions and manage your emotions, you can achieve success. The same principles apply to our financial lives today. The greatest investors approach the markets with discipline, emotional distance, and self-mastery—lessons that the Stoics have been teaching us for thousands of years.

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.