NOVEDADES

Elmer va a visitar a su abuelo Eldo, con el que compartió grandes aventuras y experiencias cuando era pequeño. Pero parece ser que ahora Eldo ya no se acuerda de todos esos momentos que disfrutaron juntos. ¿Es posible que no recuerde nada? Puede que Eldo sea mayor, pero es un elefante. Y los elefantes nunca olvidan... ¿O sí?

La mayoría de empresas invierten en talento para competir en la actual economía del conocimiento, pero el mejor talento se desperdicia si las personas no son capaces de expresarse. El instinto humano de «encajar» y «seguir la corriente» va en contra del flujo continuo de nuevas ideas, nuevas soluciones y pensamiento crítico necesarios para que las organizaciones sigan innovando. Aunque no todas las ideas son acertadas, la cultura de una organización no debe reprimir, silenciar, ridiculizar o intimidar. Basado en los más de treinta años de investigación de Amy Edmondson, catedrática de Gestión y Liderazgo en Harvard Business School, este libro de valor incalculable ayuda a las empresas a abordar el lado humano de la ecuación de la innovación para crear un entorno de trabajo seguro, intrépido y capacitado para triunfar sin límites.

Richard Wiseman nos acompaña en un viaje a través del fascinante mundo de la psicología, centrándose en aquellas investigaciones que hacen que la disciplina merezca la pena. La psicología nos revela el funcionamiento oculto de la mente, impulsa el pensamiento crítico, confronta mitos y prejuicios, mejora las vidas de cada uno y enriquece los debates en política, filosofía y educación. Una guía que nos permite saber cómo realizan su trabajo los psicólogos, examina los desafíos contemporáneos asociados con el estudio de la mente y alienta a estudiantes e investigadores a reflexionar sobre por qué hacen lo que hacen.

Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to gain their freedom from France. Yet in an incredible twist of fate, Christophe ended up fighting with Napoleon’s forces against the very enslaved men and women he had once fought alongside. Later, reuniting with those he had betrayed, he offered to lead them and made himself their king. But it all came to a sudden and tragic end when Christophe—after nine years of his rule as King Henry I—shot himself in the heart, some say with a silver bullet. Why did Christophe turn his back on Toussaint Louverture and the very revolution with which his name is so indelibly associated? How did it come to pass that Christophe found himself accused of participating in the plot to assassinate Haiti’s first ruler, Dessalines? What caused Haiti to eventually split into two countries, one ruled by Christophe in the north, who made himself king, the other led by President Pétion in the south? The First and Last King of Haiti is a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Most of us assume that the key to overcoming anxiety is to think our way out of it. And for a while, it works. Meditation and mental exercises offer us relief, but there is always something—a work deadline, a family emergency, a particularly distressing newsbreak—that disrupts our sense of peace and sends us right back inside the same anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. Is there a way to reduce our anxiety, not just in the moment, but in every moment after that? After a lifetime of struggling with anxiety, Martha Beck studied just about everything there was to know about how to calm down. What she realized is that the analytical part of our brain—so valued in Western culture—is the same structure responsible for amping up anxiety. In other words, we cannot logic our way to relief. In Beyond Anxiety, she reveals that to find calm, we must activate an entirely different part of our brain, one responsible for curiosity, wonder, and, most of all, creativity.