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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.

Théophile Gautier destacó de la obra de su amigo Balzac que con su profundo instinto de la realidad comprendió que la vida moderna que quería pintar estaba dominada por un hecho capital, el dinero. Este volumen incluye las siguientes novelas: Petrilla, El cura de Tours, Un hogar de soltero, La solterona y El gabinete de los antiguos.

A lo largo de veinte años, Balzac escribió dieciséis horas diarias. El resultado de este esfuerzo titánico se materializó en la escritura de noventa y cinco novelas. En sólo tres años escribió más de veinte, alentado por su relación amorosa con la condesa polaca Eveline Hanska. Entre ellas figuran tres de las cuatro que se incluyen en este volumen, dentro de la serie Escenas de la vida de provincia: El ilustre Gaudissart (1832), Eugénie Grandet (1834) y La musa de la provincia, que comenzó a escribir en 1832 y revisó en 1837, año de su publicación. En 1841 publicó Ursule Mirouët.

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.

There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress.

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.