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En este libro, lleno de imaginación y humor, el autor bestseller número 1 en el New York Times, Brandon Sanderson y el ilustrador Kazu Kibuishi, nos invitan a presenciar una épica aventura llena de giros. En esta épica y humorística aventura, un chico sentado en una silla hace sus deberes de matemáticas, sus tareas del hogar y toma una siesta... mientras una aventura increíble se desarrolla a su alrededor con piratas, dragones y otros peligros inesperados. El ingenioso contraste entre el texto y sus magníficas ilustraciones en este clásico moderno fascinará a grandes y pequeños por igual. ¿Estás preparado para esta fantástica aventura?

Se acerca la Semana de la Moda Mágica, el evento más glamuroso del mundo de los brujos. Anna y los demás acompañan a su profesora a París para disfrutar del gran espectáculo entre hechizos de alta costura y grandes diseñadores. Lástima que uno de ellos esté dispuesto a todo para crear un modelo muy exclusivo… ¿Podrán detenerlo a tiempo?

Congo is rich. Swaths of the war-torn African country lack basic infrastructure, and, after many decades of colonial occupation, its people are officially among the poorest in the world. But hidden beneath the soil are vast quantities of cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, tantalum, tungsten, and other treasures. Recently, this veritable periodic table of resources has become extremely valuable because these metals are essential for the global “energy transition”—the plan for wealthy nations to wean themselves off fossil fuels by shifting to sustainable forms of energy, such as solar and wind. The race to electrify the world’s economy has begun, and China has a considerable head start. From Indonesia to South America to Central Africa, Beijing has invested in mines and infrastructure for decades. But the U.S. has begun fighting back with massive investments of its own, as well as sanctions and disruptive tariffs. In this rush for green energy, the world has become utterly reliant on resources unearthed far away and willfully blind to the terrible political, environmental, and social consequences of their extraction. If the Democratic Republic of the Congo possesses such riches, why are its children routinely descending deep into treacherous mines to dig with the most rudimentary of tools, or in some cases their bare hands? Why are Indonesia’s seas and skies being polluted in a rush for battery metals? Why is the Western Sahara, a source for phosphates, still being treated like a colony? Who must pay the price for progress?