NOVEDADES

Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone’s throw from Spain’s southernmost tip, Morocco couldn’t possibly be farther away.With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and welcoming people, Morocco is a most alluring and tantalizingly exotic destination. Digging a little deeper into the myth of Morocco, Barbara and René Stoeltie bring us this eclectic selection of homes to demonstrate all that is most wonderful about the Moroccan style: from tiled, turquoise swimming pools and lavish gardens to carved wooden furniture and jade-colored marble fountains.With more than 500 pages featuring stunning, inspiring photographs, flipping through these fairy tale-like visions of exotic havens (ideally while sipping a steaming cup of sweet, fragrant mint tea) will instantly whisk you away.

Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative—words cannot do justice to Asia’s most beautiful interiors. Whether it’s a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand, each of the havens featured in this book are remarkable not only in aesthetic, but also in spirit. This showcase features about 40 exceptional locations across Tibet, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Highlights include traditional Burmese stilt houses; the breathtaking Shiv Niwas Palace in India, visited by James Bond in Octopussy; Cambodian temples; a rice barge-turned houseboat in Thailand; the “Blue Mansion”, an magnificient, indigo-painted courtyard house featured in the film Indochine; a breathtaking garden designed by Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa; and many, many more.

A pesar de no gobernar el Imperio romano directamente, Livia ha sido una de las mujeres más poderosas del mundo. Esposa del primer emperador romano, Augusto, y madre del segundo, Tiberio, se posicionó de forma determinante en el centro de la política romana. En esta biografía de Livia, considerada unánimemente la más completa desde cualquier punto de vista, Anthony Barrett recurre a las fuentes antiguas para ir mucho más allá del retrato parcial de una maquiavélica conspiradora y nos descubre a una Livia compleja cuya prolongada influencia política contribuyó a dar forma al gobierno romano, dejando sentir su ascendencia mucho después de su muerte.

A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era.

Un método sencillo y radical con el que activar un estado mental de alto rendimiento, concentración y creatividad, para dar forma a la vida que realmente quieres. ¿Cómo puedes lograr un mayor rendimiento mental y creatividad en un mundo lleno de distracciones, de fechas límite constantes, de tiempo perdido en las redes sociales y de un bombardeo de noticias que te provoca ansiedad? En LIT, el innovador investigador de Harvard y del MIT, Jeff Karp, ha encontrado una poderosa manera de alcanzar un estado mental más enfocado y eficaz con la ayuda de sus siete herramientas para el encendido vital (Life Ignition Tools).

¿Cómo puedes lograr un mayor rendimiento mental y creatividad en un mundo lleno de distracciones, de fechas límite constantes, de tiempo perdido en las redes sociales y de un bombardeo de noticias que te provoca ansiedad?