NOVEDADES

Siglo XVI. Después de una existencia dedicada a conquistar nuevas tierras a golpe de espada, fuego y lágrimas, Martín del Puerto acude al monasterio de Yuste sin saber que su destino se verá ligado al del emperador Carlos V. En ese apacible rincón alejado del mundo, el monarca ha decidido retirarse tras su abdicación ahora que su fin se acerca. Los días de gloria han quedado atrás para los dos hombres, pero cada tarde quien fuera el rey más poderoso del mundo y el viejo marinero se sientan juntos para compartir confidencias y recuerdos. Mientras el emperador languidece, los relatos del intrépido explorador lo hacen viajar a aquellas lejanas tierras que le pertenecieron y que nunca llegó a pisar. Aventuras, desdichas y retazos de una travesía extraordinaria ilustrarán cómo las expediciones a las Indias no solo unieron dos mundos, sino también dos formas de concebir la vida.

La riqueza consciente es el único tipo de riqueza que existe. No se trata solo de gozar de bienes materiales, sino de elevar nuestra energía y nuestra mente a un nivel superior. Es decir: la riqueza consciente supone la unión de la riqueza terrenal con la grandeza de nuestro ser. Y esto es algo al alcance de todo el mundo. Pero a menudo entendemos mal las normas en las que se basa nuestra felicidad. Para conseguir la tan ansiada plenitud, es necesario desvelar las reglas del juego, abrazarlas y conectar así con nuestra divinidad. Cristóbal Amo es el creador del mejor programa de entrenamiento mental y riqueza consciente de habla hispana. Además, como experto en la ley de la atracción y la abundancia, cuenta con una comunidad de millones de seguidores.

No faltan libros sobre cómo hacerse rico. Pero esta obra, que ya ha cosechado un gran éxito en Alemania y China, es diferente. Al contrario que la mayoría de los manuales plagados de recetas subjetivas y con un fuerte componente intuitivo, éste se basa en una rigurosa investigación académica. Libertad financiera es el resultado de adaptar al público generalista el trabajo científico que Rainer Zitelmann, una de las voces más influyentes del liberalismo contemporáneo, condujo para llevar a cabo su tesis doctoral sobre la psicología de los superricos. De aquel esfuerzo surge este atractivo ensayo que aúna dos cualidades: resultar accesible para los lectores no iniciados en el mundo de las finanzas y ofrecer valiosas lecciones a los más avezados. En estas páginas se analizan y se extraen conclusiones de casos reales de estrellas del pop, deportistas o ganadores de la lotería que en un momento de sus vidas lograron ingresar mucho dinero y acabaron perdiéndolo todo.

Un viaje emocional por el cine y la televisión que han definido a toda una generación Hace menos de tres años parecía que el cine estaba muerto, que nadie volvería nunca a las salas, que las grandes estrellas no existían y que solo las películas de superhéroes eran viables económicamente. Y entonces llegó Barbie. Este es un recorrido personal tan personal que es casi universal por la historia más reciente del cine, y en particular del cine palomitero, ese cine comercial, orgulloso de serlo, que ha moldeado nuestro imaginario colectivo. Un mundo de dinosaurios, naves galácticas, agentes secretos y sirenas que Alberto empezó viendo primero desde el sofá de casa para poco a poco adentrarse en él profesionalmente. El libro se inmiscuye en rodajes de series y películas, en junkets de prensa, fiestas y premios que, junto a las mismas películas que luego vemos en la sala, configuran un universo que mezcla ficción y realidad y del que ningún peliculero podrá escapar nunca.

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.

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.

When Getting Things Done was published in 2001, it was a game changer. By revealing the principles of healthy high performance at an individual level, it transformed the experience of work and leisure for millions. Twenty years later, it has become clear that the best way to build on that success is at the team level, and one of the most frequently asked questions by dedicated GTD users is how to get an entire team onboard. By building on the effectiveness of what GTD does for individuals, Team will offer a better way of working in an organization, while simultaneously nourishing a culture that allows individuals’ skills to flourish. Using case studies from some of the world’s largest and most successful companies, Team shows how leaders have employed the principles of team productivity to improve communication, enable effective execution, and reduce stress on team members. These principles are increasingly important in the post-pandemic workplace, where the very nature of how people work together has changed so dramatically. Team is the most significant addition to the GTD canon since the original, and in offering a roadmap for building a culture of healthy high performance, will be welcomed by readers working in any sized group or organization.

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.