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Los griegos tomaron Troya; Temístocles venció en Salamina; Aníbal mantuvo en jaque al ejército romano... ¿Qué tienen en común estos y otros episodios del mundo antiguo? El uso de trampas, trucos y engaños; en una palabra, estratagemas para dominar al enemigo. La historia antigua está repleta de acontecimientos en los que someter al otro ha sido posible gracias a un destello de astucia decisivo en el fragor del enfrentamiento. Aunque hicieran creer que eran los enemigos quienes perpetraban contra ellos las artimañas más ambiguas, en realidad, griegos y romanos nunca tuvieron reparos en utilizar medios tortuosos y fraudulentos. Consideraban que la inteligencia era el arma más eficaz, fiable y competente para superar las dificultades, vencer a los enemigos e imponerse en la escena política.

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.

Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense.