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¿ESTÁS PREPARADO PARA ARRIESGAR TU CORAZÓN? Vuelve Javier Castillo. Magnética - Salvaje - Monumental - Trepidante El regreso más esperado. Más de 2.500.000 de ejemplares vendidos. Un trasplante de urgencia Un donante lleno de secretos ¿Qué esconden los latidos de tu corazón? Nueva York, 2017. Cora Merlo, médico residente de primer año, sufre un infarto fulminante que la obliga a un trasplante de corazón. Aún convaleciente la joven recibe la visita de una extraña mujer con una enigmática oferta: pasar unos días en Steelville, un pequeño pueblo de interior, para conocer la vida de su hijo Charles, el donante de su corazón. Cora se adentra así en un hogar lleno de secretos, en un misterio que se extiende durante veinte años y en un pueblo hermético en el que, justo el día de su llegada, desaparece un bebé en un parque público.

Libros de gran formato con rimas y textos sencillos, colores vivos y texturas variadas que invitan a los más pequeños a experimentar a través del tacto y la vista. Una colección para que los que aún no saben leer comiencen a manipular sus primeros libros mediante el juego. ¡Toca y nombra a los simpáticos animales que hacen cua, muu y graa!

Este libro invita al niño a jugar al que quizás sea el primer juego que aprende: el 'Cucú-tras'. Le gustará observar las grandes ilustraciones de alegres colores y se divertirá levantando las solapas tras las que se esconden diferentes animales domésticos.

El concepto «liberalismo» aparece de manera cotidiana en las conversaciones y debates sobre política, economía o moral. Sin embargo, su significado e implicaciones pueden con frecuencia no ser evidentes e incluso resultar engañosas. ¿El liberalismo supone estar a favor de una fiscalidad reducida? ¿O hace referencia a un conjunto de ideas progresistas en asuntos como la religión, las drogas, la eutanasia o la sexualidad? ¿Está a favor de las grandes empresas y de sus conexiones con el poder político o justo de lo contrario? ¿Ser liberal significa mostrarse partidario del derecho a la autodeterminación de los pueblos, de la unidad de las naciones históricas o de ninguno de estos conceptos? ¿O acaso el liberalismo equivale simplemente a la defensa de un sistema democrático similar al actual? En este libro, Juan Ramón Rallo, uno de nuestros más valiosos pensadores liberales, expone cuáles son los diez principios nucleares del liberalismo para así clarificar su significado actual. Según Rallo, el liberalismo es una filosofía política minimalista que no pretende establecer de manera rígida lo que está bien y lo que está mal en todos los aspectos de nuestra existencia, sino que únicamente aspira a descubrir cuál es el marco jurídico necesario para que cada uno pueda vivir su propia vida sin más limitación que la de respetar a los demás. El liberalismo promueve un conjunto de derechos humanos de carácter universal e igualitario ―la libertad personal, la propiedad privada, la autonomía contractual y la reparación del daño causado― que se materializan globalmente en la libre asociación civil y en el libre comercio generalizado. De este modo, el orden político liberal sienta las bases jurídicas que permiten la coexistencia, la cooperación y la convivencia pacífica entre todas las personas, al tiempo que se respetan los heterogéneos, plurales y diversos proyectos de vida de cada una de ellas.

The Southwyck Mall was the shopping hub in the South Toledo area during the 1980’s and 90’s. Kids visited Hobby Center Toys and Old Towne, families ate at Big Boy, Forum Cafe, Hot Sam’s, and Orange Julius. Many others pumped quarters into games at Red Baron Arcades, browsed music at Camelot or went to Lion Store, Lamson’s and Montgomery Ward. Gathering almost 400 vintage images, the original floor map and the history of every store through the 1980’s, author Chris Bores delivers another trip down memory lane with long lost histories of each business unearthed from the early days of Toledo’s historic Southwyck Mall.

Wu Hengdong (Master Kim to his students) is a 6th-level master of taiji quan. In this book he has brought together years of experience as both practitioner and teacher, to help students of all levels including beginners, to understand the principle of Qigong meditation.This book aims to help students quickly master the key points of Tai Chi Qìgong; it is structured to make Qìgong easy to learn and understand. With a clear logical direction for learning, beginners can achieve the coordination of their mind, qì, shape and spirit during their practice by training their breath and improving the flow through the body’s meridians.This book is written around Tai Chi, based on my own practice of the martial arts; it focuses on Tai Chi's method of gathering qì and includes several kinds of standing meditation exercises. It elaborates on the stages of Tai Chi practice, and concretizes the theory of Tai Chi with classroom practice, aiming to help students at home and abroad to improve their practice after class, and more clearly grasp Tai Chi in depth. This second edition of the book includes a new section on the philosophy of Qigong. It is not necessary in the early stages for students to concentrate too much on the ideas behind Qìqong. Only by practicing, seeing, listening, thinking and becoming more self-aware can we naturally sense the existence of qì. This book is proposed in both English and Chinese, with the Chinese text arranged after the English. In this way, we hope not only to allow readers to improve their Qìgong practice, but to help those learning English or Chinese to improve their language skills. Master Wu Hengdong is founder and principal teacher at the Yangshuo Traditional Tai Chi School in Guangxi Province, China. See https://www.kimtaichichina.com/ for more information

Actualmente, el ciudadano medio ha adoptado un estilo de vida en el que pasar un día entero en la naturaleza resulta algo excepcional o novedoso. No estamos acostumbrados a valernos en el medio natural si no es de forma muy controlada y con gran ayuda de material moderno: ese entorno salvaje, que en su día fue nuestro hábitat natural, se nos presenta hoy como un escenario hostil y casi desconocido. Aun con ello, somos muchos quienes escuchamos una voz interior que nos llama hacia allí. Nos vemos atraídos de forma inconsciente por las técnicas y modos de vida propios de la gente que vivía de una manera más cercana a la naturaleza. Necesitamos sentir que somos capaces de desenvolvernos en el medio salvaje. Buscamos experimentar y saber que podemos valernos por nosotros mismos, que no dependemos de nada más que de nuestros conocimientos y habilidades para ello. Si estas últimas líneas despiertan tu curiosidad o te hacen sentirte identificado de algún modo, enhorabuena, eres (o puedes ser) otro aficionado más al mundo del bushcraft y de la supervivencia deportiva. Este libro te mostrará, explicado paso a paso, lo necesario para desenvolverte en este mundillo, para elegir y cuidar tus herramientas y para conocer técnicas y proyectos enteros que podrás realizar tú mismo. ¡Prepárate para satisfacer tu ansia innata de naturaleza salvaje!

¡Vuelve este clásico del manga! Rally y Minnie se ocupan en el día a día de llevar una armería en Chicago... ¡Pero también se dedican a la caza de recompensas! Su tarea principal es la persecución de forajidos sobre cuya cabeza pesa una recompensa. Sin embargo, de algún modo siempre acaban aceptando trabajos arriesgados y metiéndose en líos considerables.

Swarmwise (2013) is a tactical guide to changing the world using cost-efficient swarm methodology. It is a leadership handbook that outlines how the Swedish Pirate Party was able to beat the political competition on less than one percent of their budget, and shows how any cash- and time-strapped executive or manager can use swarm methodologies, whether the goal is business, social, or political. That organization, founded by one man without resources, has now spread to over 70 countries using the same cost-efficient swarm methods. Swarmwise will tell you what it takes to found a swarm of volunteers, to organize and energize it, and to lead it to success. The book doesn’t go into theoretical detail, psychology, or deep research papers. Rather, it is very hands-on leadership advice from pure experience – it covers everything from how you give instructions to new marketing assistants or activists about handing out flyers in the street, up to and including how you communicate with TV stations and organize hundreds of thousands of people in a coherent swarm. Above all, it focuses on the cost-efficiency of the swarm structure, and is a tactical instruction manual for anybody who wants to dropkick their competition completely – no matter whether their game is business, social, or political. A chapter overview of Swarmwise: Chapter 1 - Understanding the Swarm deals with the basic concepts of a swarm organization, and explains why the swarm is open and transparent. It introduces the concept of a cost-efficiency advantage of two orders of magnitude. In Chapter 2 - Launching Your Swarm, we learn that the published project plan must be tangible, credible, inclusive, and epic, and what that means in practice. Chapter 3 - Getting Your Swarm Organized gives tangible advice on how to organize a volunteer organization and why. We look at the dynamics of different group sizes and how to build a culture of trust. One of the more counterintuitive lessons is detailed in Chapter 4 - Control the Vision, but Never the Message. It explains how you need to use volunteers to translate your vision into messages that fit a specific social context, rather than using an one-size-fits-all slogan. A healthy dose of classic project management is found in Chapter 5 - Keep People's Eyes On Target, And Paint It Red Daily. We talk about metrics, choosing the right metrics, and causing self-organization to happen when you publish the right metrics to optimize. In Chapter 6 - Screw Democracy, We're on a Mission from God, we talk about conflict resolution mechanisms and how to optimize the swarm for speed, trust, and scalability. Chapter 7 - Surviving Growth Unlike Anything the MBAs Have Seen details how the swarm can grow by 200% in a week when some events play out, and how to handle such situations. One of the more advanced chapters, Chapter 8 - Using Social Dynamics To Their Potential goes into how we can tap into the long tail of people and effectively cross-use online and offline friendships to grow organically. Seeing how most organizations need to deal with TV, newspapers, and radio, there is also Chapter 9 - Managing Oldmedia that details everything from press release processes to TV crews. Finally, Chapter 10 - Beyond Success shares a bit of experience of what happens when you feel at the top of the world, and what to do then. "Your most valuable asset isn't your employees," I told the executive. "Your most valuable asset is the thousands of people who want to work for you for free, and you don't let them." The book can also be downloaded as a PDF from the author's website at http://falkvinge.net/books/.

¡Vuelve este clásico del manga! Rally y Minnie se ocupan en el día a día de llevar una armería en Chicago... ¡Pero también se dedican a la caza de recompensas! Su tarea principal es la persecución de forajidos sobre cuya cabeza pesa una recompensa. Sin embargo, de algún modo siempre acaban aceptando trabajos arriesgados y metiéndose en líos considerables.

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." ―The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." ―The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." ―Business Week "Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read." ―The Economist "[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world." ―Worth "No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement." ―Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers "With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it." ―John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. "An extremely readable history of risk." ―Barron's "Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face." ―Money "A singular achievement." ―Times Literary Supplement "There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company." ―The Australian