NOVEDADES

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the Vessel. Despite its sturdy steel structure, weighing 9,500 deadweight tons, the Vessel is a figure as elusive and abstract as the offshore market it comes to embody: a world of island tax havens, exploited labor forces, free banking zones, Thatcherism, Reaganomics, and mass incarceration, where even the prisoners are held offshore. Fitted with modular shipping containers, themselves the product of standardized global trade, the ship could become whatever the market demanded. Whether caught in an international dispute involving Hong Kong, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Virgin Islands—to be settled in an English court of law—or flying yet another foreign “flag of convenience” to mask its ownership—the barge is ever a container for forces much larger than even its hulking self. Empty Vessel is a jaw-dropping microhistory that speaks volumes about the global economy as a whole. In following the Vessel—and its Sister Vessel, built alongside it in Stockholm—from one thankless task to the next, Kumekawa connects the dots of a neoliberal world order in the making, where regulation is for suckers and “Made in USA” feels almost quaint.

When Norman shows Jim his pet butterfly, Butterfly-Butterfly, Jim is suitably impressed, especially when Norman spouts butterfly facts. Then Norman adds Beetle-Beetle 1 and Beetle-Beetle 2 and so many more to his menagerie. Now Norman spends all his time feeding and caring for his pets and doesn’t have time to play. Grumpy Monkey Jim feels left out. And when all the bugs have babies, Jim declares that Norman has too many and persuades his friend to set them free. But then Norman sees a ladybug…

Geronimo Stilton llegará al Reino de los Sueños para ser entrenado como Maestro Soñador, pues el Reino necesita una persona noble y honesta que dé origen a un nuevo mundo. Y ese nuevo mundo es, nada más y nada menos, que el Reino de la Fantasía… Así, viviremos con Geronimo su entrenamiento y conoceremos a nuevos compañeros de aventuras. ¡Preparaos para vivir el Reino de la Fantasía como nunca lo habéis hecho!

Un clásico de la ciencia para el público no especializado que ahonda en los misterios de la relación matemática más famosa de todos los tiempos. Desde matemáticos y científicos hasta filósofos y artistas, la proporción áurea ha sido una obsesión constante en todas las disciplinas del conocimiento humano. Los seguidores de Pitágoras creían que revelaba la mano de Dios y el astrónomo Kepler vio en ella uno de los grandes tesoros de la geometría; presente en La Gioconda o La última cena de Dalí, el número Phi representa la unión entre la belleza, el mundo y las matemáticas.

De manera sucinta puedo describir las historias anecdóticas de nuestro buen amigo, el eminente cirujano cardiovascular, Doctor José J. Norberto, como experiencias cotidianas ilustradas con una prosa impecable y elegante - con cierto grado de jocosidad - pero esencialmente didácticas que nos muestran una enseñanza o moraleja. Cada historia es un fragmento o capítulo de una etapa de la vida desde la niñez hasta la actualidad, sin dejar de lado los eventos urbanos con sus distintas características o peculiaridades. Es una lectura fácil y grata, que nos deja la sensación de que cada relato es un reflejo de nuestra propia experiencia de vida o de la realidad que nos circunda.