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LA OBRA MAESTRA DE CANEPA Y BARBUCCI REUNIDA EN UN LUJOSO VOLUMEN INTEGRAL. La publicación de Sky·Doll en el año 2002 supuso todo un acontecimiento. Tremendamente innovadora e influenciada gráficamente por las tendencias internacionales más importantes del cómic, la animación y la cultura pop, la obra maestra de Alessandro Barbucci y Barbara Canepa ha conquistado, con el paso de los años, a lectores y creadores de todo el mundo. Desde entonces, el fabuloso destino de Noa, la muñeca sintética, no ha cesado nunca de ser objeto de culto. Además de una cubierta inédita, cuya camisa puede desplegarse para formar un póster de gran tamaño, esta excepcional edición integral reagrupa los cuatro álbumes de la icónica serie.

A bizarre sleeping sickness called Aurora has fallen over the world. Its victims can’t wake up. And all of them are women. As nations fall into chaos, those women still awake take desperate measures to stay that way, and men everywhere begin to give in to their darkest impulses. Meanwhile, in the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods. She calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage in her wake. Strangest of all, she’s the only woman who can wake up.

Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices? Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers – from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O’Keefe – Newport lays out the key principles of “slow productivity,” a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative.

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.

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La inteligencia es un destello fugaz en la larga noche de la historia cósmica. Que pueblen la tierra no una sino dos especies inteligentes al mismo tiempo pone en cuestión cualquier cálculo de probabilidades. El hecho de que esas dos especies, tan distintas como complementarias, forjen una alianza que a su vez enciende una civilización desafía toda lógica. Los inicios de la alianza entre las hormigas y los dinosaurios fueron humildes, pero de ella surgieron la escritura, las matemáticas, los ordenadores e incluso los viajes espaciales. Una verdadera era de las maravillas que, sin embargo, hará pagar un alto precio a la biosfera de la Tierra y a quienes dependen de ella. Pese a todo, los dinosaurios se negarán a escuchar la advertencia de las hormigas sobre el inminente colapso ecológico, y al hacerlo dejarán a la Federación Fórmica frente a un único dilema: destruir a los dinosaurios, aniquilar una civilización... ¿o morir junto a ellos?