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Se prometió que Bitcoin, BTC, sería una tecnología liberadora, una alternativa de libre mercado al dinero controlado por el estado. Pero esa promesa se rompió cuando un pequeño grupo de individuos con información privilegiada se hiciera cargo del proyecto y cambiara fundamentalmente su diseño. La verdadera historia de BTC y su diseño original la conocen muy pocas personas debido a años de fuerte censura, ingeniería de redes sociales y estrictos controles de información. La realidad es que BTC ha sido secuestrado y cambiado para peor. Esa es la conclusión innegable de El secuestro de Bitcoin, un libro repleto de historia y verdades incómodas, que descarga una andanada desmitificadora contra las narrativas más populares que rodean a BTC. Roger Ver es el primer inversor del mundo en empresas emergentes de BTC y ha sido un nombre destacado en la industria de las criptomonedas desde su inicio. Sin embargo, como confiesa en la introducción, este libro no es una historia de amor. Es la exposición devastadora de la corrupción, la propaganda y la centralización del poder en BTC.

La historia real de un psiquiatra, su joven paciente y la terapia de regresión que cambió sus vidas para siempre. Un punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica. El doctor Brian Weiss, jefe de psiquiatría del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, relata en éste, su primer libro, una asombrosa experiencia que cambió por completo su propia vida y su visión de la psicoterapia. Una de sus pacientes, Catherine, recordó bajo hipnosis varias de sus vidas pasadas y pudo encontrar en ellas el origen de muchos de los traumas que sufría. Catherine se curó, pero ocurrió algo todavía más importante: logró ponerse en contacto con los Maestros, espíritus superiores que habitan los estados entre dos vidas. Ellos le comunicaron importantes mensajes de sabiduría y de conocimiento. Este relato, profundamente conmovedor, punto de encuentro entre ciencia y metafísica, constituyó un extraordinario best seller y sigue siendo de obligada lectura en un mundo convulsionado, en especial para los que buscan un sentido espiritual. Los mejores comentarios de los lectores sobre Muchas vidas, muchos maestros: «Impactante. Un libro que te obliga a realizar pausas de vez en cuando para asimilar y procesar las experiencias que relata. Tiene la credibilidad de una eminencia en psiquiatría y se asemeja en ocasiones al Libro Tibetano de los muertos pero bajo mi opinión hay aceptar esta información y cogerlo con pinzas ya que ningún hombre a lo largo de la humanidad murióy volvió para contarnos lo que hay en el más allá.» «Interesante lectura incluso para escépticos. He disfrutado su lectura, a pesar de ser muy escéptico sobre estas cuestiones. Habituado a lectura científica, sentía una sana curiosidad por este libro. Quería descubrir si se trataba de una farsa o tenía visos de seriedad y, tras su lectura, no puedo sino recomendarlo. Se puede creer o no lo que en él se describe, eso es cuestión de cada uno, pero sin duda merece la pena su conocimiento.» «Un libro increíblemente interesante. Libro muy fácil de leer y de tremendo impacto. Las cosas que hablan y los temas que abordan deberían ser aprendidos en el colegio. Todo ser humano debería leer este libro y respetar las teorías que mencionan en el. Brian Weiss es sin lugar a dudas un psiquiatra de prestigio que se atreve a abordar temas muy estigmatizados en nuestra época y sociedad actual.»

Tres grandes autores. Tres mundos reconocibles. Tres distopías maestras. Presentamos un pack con tres obras fundamentales del siglo XX: Un mundo feliz (1932), 1984 (1949) y Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Sin ninguna duda, pocas novelas de anticipación han sido tan influyentes como estas en la imaginación literaria posterior. Pero las visiones de sus autores no solo han cambiado el rumbo de la literatura, sino que también parecen haber anunciado la realidad de nuestros días. Desde la fractura social vislumbrada por Aldous Huxley hasta la posverdad prevista por George Orwell, pasando por la anestesia consumista denunciada por Ray Bradbury, reconocemos en estas ficciones muchos de nuestros males actuales, hasta el punto de que llegamos a preguntarnos si no estaremos viviendo en una distopía. Sin embargo, estas novelas no se agotan en sus profecías. De un modo quizá más importante, constituyen una poderosa advertencia sobre los futuros que pueden evitarse. En el reverso de las tres historias, cuya fuerza se realza al leerlas en conjunto, se oculta una viva defensa de la libertad, el pensamiento crítico y la responsabilidad individual y colectiva. Sobre las obras: «Un mundo feliz retrata una utopía perfecta o su horrendo opuesto, una distopía: sus hermosos habitantes viven seguros y libres de enfermedades y preocupaciones, pero lo hacen de un modo que, queremos creer, sería inaceptable para nosotros.» Margaret Atwood «Ninguna obra fantástica ha alcanzado el horror lógico de 1984.» Arthur Koestler «De entre todos los infiernos del conformismo, Fahrenheit 451 ofrece el retrato más convincente.» Kingsley Amis «Aldous Huxley fue un hombre extraordinariamente profético, no hay otro novelista en el siglo XX que haya escrito una guía más sagaz del futuro.» J.G. Ballard «La virtud de libros como 1984 es su capacidad para recordarnos que la libertad de los seres humanos responsables no es igual a la de los animales.» Anthony Burgess «Fahrenheit 451 es una fábula perfecta.» Ursula K. Le Guin

Finally, programmers that need to truly understand the TCP/IP protocol suite have a resource to turn to, TCP/IP Illustrated. Instead of merely describing the RFC's, bestselling author Rich Stevens takes an innovative "visual" approach which, combined with his writing style, results in an accessible "understandable" guide to TCP/IP.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Tremendous and shattering' - The Times 'Powerful and engaging' - Literary Review The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive change as a society. This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them. Told from this first-hand perspective, and backed with impressive research and evidence, the book addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, the lack of repatriation and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, Lampedusa and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away. In each chapter he also takes a step back to look at the bigger issues which lie behind a continent's death-wish, answering the question of why anyone, let alone an entire civilisation, would do this to themselves? He ends with two visions of Europe – one hopeful, one pessimistic – which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next.

Bring your Dungeons & Dragons game to life with this collection of twenty beautifully rendered, full-color, tactical poster maps. Maps are a key element of every Dungeons & Dragons campaign. A map's importance in bringing your world to life can't be overstated. The same can be said for your encounter maps. Sometimes you need a visual representation of the area your adventurers are in, or perhaps tactical combat is simply the way your group rolls. However you play, we've got you covered. Twenty beautifully rendered, tactical poster maps are contained herein, perfect for bringing any D&D game to life. - 20 full color poster maps. Each is adorned with a 1-inch grid, perfect for use with D&D miniatures. - A wide assortment of terrain, environments, and locations are represented. - This "Best of" collection is carefully chosen from some of our most exciting adventures: - Tomb of Horrors (4th edition) - Vor Rukoth (4th edition) - Demon Queen's Enclave (4th edition) - Death's Reach (4th edition) - The Book of Vile Darkness (4th edition) - Kingdom of the Ghouls (4th edition) - Dungeon Master's Kit (4th edition) - Orcs of Stonefang Pass (4th edition) - Fields of Ruin (3rd edition) - Gargantuan Blue Dragon (3rd edition) - Vaults of the Underdark (4th edition) - Legend of Drizzt Scenario Pack (3rd edition) - Colossal Red Dragon (3rd edition) - Red Hand of Doom (3rd edition)

In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science. Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.

As the global economy struggles to avoid meltdown, so the greatest Ponzi scheme in history approaches its final death rattle. Politicians have stood by and watched the financial industry create a massive overhang of debt, a mountain of low quality assets - and ultimately, an economic disaster which has dwarfed all others. The Eurozone crisis and the LIBOR manipulaton scandal are just two symptoms of a much broader problem: one of vastly excessive debt, regulatory failure, a culture of deceit on Wall Street and the City of London, and governments that have promised their citizens far more than they can deliver. In "Planet Ponzi", Mitch Feierstein tells you what's happened, what will happen next and how to protect yourself and your family.

This is the classic exposé of the Fed that has become one of the best-selling books in its category of all time. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It reads like a detective story - which it really is, but it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Your world view will definitely change. Putting it quite simply, this may be the most important book on world affairs you will ever read. The 5th Edition includes a no-holds barred analysis of bank bailouts that are shown to be nothing less than legalized plunder of the people. Many other updates have been added, including a revision to the list of those who attended the historic meeting at Jekyll Island where the Federal Reserve was created.

Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and published in English in 1892, Carl Menger explains that it is not government edicts that create money but instead the marketplace. Individuals decide what the most marketable good is for use as a medium of exchange. “Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy,” Menger wrote, and so it is with deciding what is to be traded as money."Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution. Sanction by the authority of the state is a notion alien to it. "This is the first time this essay has been in print in more than a century!Introduction by Doug French

The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion—a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold—now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Robert Cialdini—the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically in business and everyday settings. Using memorable stories and relatable examples, Robert Cialdini makes this crucially important subject surprisingly easy. With Cialdini as a guide, you don’t have to be a scientist to learn how to use this science. You’ll learn Cialdini’s Universal Principles of Influence, including new research and new uses so you can become an even more skilled persuader—and just as importantly, you’ll learn how to defend yourself against unethical influence attempts. You may think you know these principles, but without understanding their intricacies, you may be ceding their power to someone else. Cialdini’s Principles of Persuasion: * Reciprocation * Commitment and Consistency * Social Proof * Liking * Authority * Scarcity * Unity, the newest principle for this edition Understanding and applying the principles ethically is cost-free and deceptively easy. Backed by Dr. Cialdini’s 35 years of evidence-based, peer-reviewed scientific research—including a three-year field study on what leads people to change—Influence is a comprehensive guide to using these principles to move others in your direction.

Béla Bartók wrote the first four volumes of the Mikrokosmos as a series of beginning piano exercises for his son Péter. The great Hungarian composer's complete six-volume collection represents one of the most comprehensive anthologies of contemporary technique ever assembled. This edition, consisting of the first two volumes, presents more than 100 pieces of study material suitable for first- and second-year students. In a 1945 radio interview, Bartók explained, "The Mikrokosmos is a cycle of 153 pieces for piano, written with a didactic purpose. That is, to give piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning and then going on. It is graded according to difficulties. And the word Mikrokosmos may be interpreted as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world. Or it may be interpreted as 'world of the little ones, the children.'" This volume constitutes the definitive edition of Bartók's tutorials, drawing upon all known manuscripts and the printed originals for a corrected version approved by the composer's son and the first student to benefit from these exercises.