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Una edición que incluye la práctica totalidad de los relatos de Stendhal (exceptuando las crónicas italianas), algunos de ellos inéditos en español y la mayoría sin traducir desde hace más de cincuenta años. Presentamos la narrativa de Stendhal, prácticamente en su totalidad. Con piezas inéditas y poco conocidas de su autor, el libro reúne desde primeros esbozos narrativos hasta obras características de madurez, un total de veinte relatos de distinta extensión entre los que figuran Vida y muerte de Mina de Vanghel, Recuerdos de un caballero italiano, la inacabada Rosa y verde, y dos relatos ultrarrománticos de tema español, El bedizo y El arca y el fantasma.

Archipiélago gulag era el nombre de la red de campos de internamiento y de castigo soviéticos donde fueron recluidos millones de personas durante la segunda mitad del siglo xx. En este monumental documento, solzhenitsyn, que estuvo confinado en uno de esos campos, reconstruye minuciosamente la vida en el interior de la industria penitenciaria en tiempos de la Unión Soviética, y su disección se convierte en un viaje a través del miedo, el dolor, el frío, el hambre y la muerte, con los que el régimen totalitario acalló toda disidencia. Con este primer volumen, al que le siguen dos más, se inicia la traducción íntegra, por primera vez en nuestro idioma, de este legendario testimonio –redactado entre 1958 y 1967– que estremeció los cimientos del totalitarismo comunista. La traducción se ha realizado a partir de la edición de 1980, revisada y ampliada por el autor, y considerada por él la definitiva. Este primer tomo recoge las dos primeras partes («La industria penitenciaria» y «Perpetuum movile») de las siete que componen este relato del horror que vivieron millones de personas.

“Tommy Spaulding has such a profound gift for storytelling and for collecting wonderful people and experiences.”—Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers Researchers estimate that the average person will influence up to eighty thousand people over the course of their lifetime—or 2.8 people daily. That’s a stadium full of people each of us affects in ways positive or negative, sometimes without our realizing. What if we paid attention to this fact? Would we live differently? Would we lead differently? Would we put down our phones and be more present with the people in front of us?

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly.