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Chew-bacca on these funny facts: The slimy sound of Jabba the Hutt’s movements was made mainly with recordings of hands being run through a bowl of mac and cheese! The Corellian hounds in Solo: A Star Wars Story were played by dogs wearing costumes! A full-scale Millennium Falcon built for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back weighed more than a whale shark!

Meet a chef who cooks pizza over an active volcano in Guatemala. Visit a bridge in Hungary that was repaired with LEGO bricks. And get to know the world’s smelliest frog. You’ll find all this and more inside this jam-packed compendium of weird wonders from all around the world. Travel from continent to continent and from sea to space to find the coolest animals, natural wonders, ancient architecture, and festivals the universe has to offer. It’s everything Weird But True! fans love, and then some: adventure-filled awesomeness packed with gorgeous photography, snackable fun facts, and in-depth info about the strange history and science that makes our world so wonderful.

In We Who Wrestle with God, Dr. Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world. In riveting detail, he analyzes the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph that stabilize, inspire, and unite us culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah; the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham’s terrible adventure; and the epic of Moses and the Israelites. What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction?

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.

This book tracks the career of the artist over six decades, revealing his retained interest in lighthearted subjects while casting them in traditional modes of painting. It celebrates the artist’s regard for the delights of the quintessentially American summer experience, from its sweet ice creams and chilled soda pops to beach games and barbecues, melting a gray winter into a fading memory. The catalogue features paintings from the 1960s through the 2000s of beach scenes, hot dogs, ice creams, beach balls, and bathing suits.

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it. Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds. But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.

La biografía definitiva del mayor inversor de todos los tiempos Warren Buffett es CEO y presidente de Berkshire Hathaway, y probablemente el inversor más exitoso de la historia. En esta biografía, el profesor Todd A. Finkle ofrece una perspectiva nunca antes explorada sobre uno de los titanes financieros de nuestro tiempo y a partir de ella se desvelan nuevas y sorprendentes facetas de su carrera, que descubrió gracias a la amistad que llegó a entablar con su maestro. A lo largo de estas páginas el autor ofrece su visión sobre los primeros años de vida de Buffett y sus negocios, y se reconstruyen los hitos empresariales que dieron forma a su carrera: desde que de niño empezara su andadura profesional vendiendo chicles a puerta fría hasta que logró fundar Berkshire Hathaway y desarrollar un conglomerado global gracias al despliegue imaginativo de instrumentos financieros y la negociación creativa. Asimismo, se aborda la metodología de inversión, la estrategia de gestión y la filosofía personal que adoptó Buffett para construir una vida gratificante en términos de emprendimiento. Fruto de esa relación de confianza que se estableció entre ellos, Finkle logra a extraer lecciones clave de los éxitos y los errores del empresario, quien supo utilizar los fracasos para explorar las formas en que los sesgos de comportamiento pueden afectar a los inversores y aprender a superarlos. Esta biografía, traducida a más de doce idiomas, nos permitirá entender los motivos por lo que Warren Buffet se ha ganado la admiración del público, ya no sólo por sus hazañas financieras, sino también por la filosofía que se intuye detrás de ellas.

Descubre las claves de la inversión rentable a largo plazo mediante el modelo de Warren Buffett, el inversor más prestigioso del mundo. Este libro nos enseña, con todo lujo de detalles, sus teorías para la gestión de inversiones y el liderazgo de personas. Para ello, el autor ha contado con toda la información y documentación facilitada por el propio Buffett. Explica cómo Buffett atrae a los directivos e inversores que piensan como propietarios y cómo disuade a los que no lo hacen; por qué es capaz de aceptar la volatilidad en los resultados operativos y cómo gestiona sus consecuencias psicológicas y emocionales; cómo cultiva el vínculo de confianza . existente entre él y sus accionistas, y cómo lo maneja para “proporcionarles rendimientos sin precedentes.

In this stunning but sinister visual universe, beasts and birds are not mere aesthetic objects but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw; a troupe of monkeys wreaks havoc on a formal dinner table; an American buffalo is surrounded by bloodied white wolves. In dazzling watercolor, the images impress as much for their impeccable realism as they do for their complex narratives.