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Con la lectura de esta obra, una sensación de certeza, de explicación a los sentimientos, reacciones y propuestas del ser humano me ha emocionado, alegrado y llenado de paz. Su autora ha entrado a esa mirada filosófica que registra cada segundo de una totalidad que se define por las mutaciones, destacando cada nueva verdad que, sin embargo, forma parte de esa verdad total que se nos revela poco a poco. Jeannette Miller. Breve filosofía para el amanecer es un libro lleno de sabiduría. Refleja una mirada pulida en el sufrimiento, una pluma estilizada en las brumas del silencio, un alma en el vuelo permanente hacia el infinito porque se nutre de los sueños y del sueño perenne de una humanidad y una creación redimidas.

Si hubiera tenido más tiempo, hubiera escrito una carta más corta», afirmó Pascal. Hoy lo breve nos invita, en medio de una sociedad enferma de frenesí, a detenernos: ante el epitafio enigmático de una lápida, ante el aforismo que sugiere sin decir, ante la pancarta que nos golpea con el alma de su lucha. Una mariposa nace, vive y muere en apenas unos días. Aunque efímero, contemplamos su vuelo con asombro. Y el aleteo de sus alas, como dice el proverbio chino, «se puede sentir al otro lado del mundo». La tesis de este libro es sencilla: lo breve entraña lo profundo.

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth.In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer’s complete career through some of his most influential projects and ideas, from his landmark tubular furniture to the MoMA Research House to his innovation of “binuclear” housing, splitting living and sleeping areas into separate wings. Along the way, we follow Hungarian-born Breuer’s journey to international acclaim, with featured projects from Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and across the United States contributing to his global status as a modernist maestro.

Meet Jessica Jones: Retired super hero, private investigator, loner. She tried her best to be a shiny spandex crimefighter, but that life only led to unspeakable trauma. Now she avoids that world altogether and works on surviving day-to-day in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. The morning a distraught mother comes into her office, Jessica would prefer to nurse her hangover and try to forget last night’s poor choices. But something about Amber Randall’s story strikes a chord with her. Amber is adamant that something happened to her teenage twins while they were visiting their father in the UK. The twins don’t act like themselves, and they now have flawless skin, have lost their distinctive tics and habits, and keep talking about a girl named Belle. Amber insists her children have been replaced by something horrible, something “perfect.” Traveling to a small village in the British countryside, Jessica meets the mysterious Belle, who lives a curiously isolated life in an old farmhouse with a strange woman who claims to be her guardian. Can this unworldly teenager really be responsible for the Randall twins’ new personas? Why does the strange little village of Barton Wallop seem to harbor dark energies and mysteries in its tight-knit community?

Una expedición mágica. Un viaje al sur. Mistborn expande sus horizontes. Los Brazales de Duelo son las mentes de metal que antaño poseyó el lord Legislador. Casi nadie cree en su existencia, pero un investigador kandra regresa a Elendel con evidencias y una imagen que conmociona a Waxillium Landra: una fotografía de su hermana Telsin apresada por su tío, el líder de una siniestra organización conocida como el Grupo. Wax viaja al sur para investigar acompañado de Wayne, Marasi y MeLaan. Allí descubren que el Grupo ha encontrado los restos de un misterioso barco y tiene prisionero a un superviviente enmascarado. ¿Podrán Wax y los suyos localizar los Brazales antes de que caigan en manos equivocadas?

Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. 500 years on from his death, his works continue to inspire scholars, artists, designers, and musicians, death metal band names and designer dresses. This edition offers the complete and haunting Bosch world in one compact format. Through full spreads and carefully curated details, we explore the full reach and compelling inventions of the artist’s genius as well as disturbing imagination. We encounter his hybrid creatures, his nightmarish scenarios, his religious and moral framework, and his pictorial versions of contemporary proverbs and idioms. Along the way, art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer reveals the most important themes and influences in these cryptic, mesmerizing masterpieces.