NOVEDADES

Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world's information across the ocean floor - and what happens when they break. A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann.

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.

EMORY Blackchurch es una mansión oculta, en un lugar remoto, a donde los más ricos envían a sus hijos rebeldes para que aprendan de sus errores. Will Grayson siempre fue salvaje e imprudente. Disfrutaba arrinconándome en el instituto cuando nadie estaba mirando, así ni un alma sabría que al chico popular le gustaba una perdedora como yo. Ahora me odia y está justificado. Porque es todo culpa mía. Todo. La Noche del Diablo. Los vídeos. Que los arrestaran.

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.

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!

Si un mínimo cambio de hábitos puede provocar resultados extraordinarios en un individuo, imagina lo que podría hacer en tu equipo y en tu empresa. El trabajo en equipo hace frente a determinados obstáculos ante los que las capacidades individuales se ven limitadas (falta de planificación, metas poco realistas, comunicación confusa…). El deseo de que nuestras aspiraciones personales basten para impulsar el progreso colectivo no es más que una ilusión. La realidad es que los individuos deben desarrollar sus habilidades hacia la excelencia y que los grupos de trabajo requieren hábitos colectivos óptimos para afrontar la toma de decisiones y la organización, los cuales generarán confianza, diligencia y satisfacción entre los miembros del equipo.