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Setting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai. He had little idea he was penning a masterpiece that would be eagerly devoured by people in all walks of life centuries after his death.

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

Este volumen reúne diez de las mejores novelas del gran autor argentino, César Aira, con selección y prefacio de Juan Pablo Villalobos.

Summer vacation has arrived, so Masachika and Alya get to spend some time together away from the hubbub of school. However…studying at Masachika’s place is the only thing they’ve been doing! Alya takes it upon herself to teach Masachika how to treat a woman, but once those two get into it, neither is willing to back down. Summer break also means they’re going on the student council’s trip to the beach! Swimsuits baring skin, dips in the hot spring, and a game of King really heat things up! But what will happen when certain secrets slip?

Los días de Sebastian Bergman en la Unidad de Homicidios han terminado y ahora dedica su tiempo a impartir conferencias y a escribir libros. Tras los acontecimientos vividos en Castigos justificados, lleva meses sin noticias de Vanja y la única persona del equipo con quien tiene contacto esporádico es Úrsula. Vanja tampoco sigue en la Unidad: ahora trabaja como investigadora criminal en Uppsala. Desde el mes pasado, está investigando una serie de abusos a mujeres. Cuando una de las víctimas muere, la Unidad de Homicidios pasará a encargarse del caso.

As a Russian recruit in World War II, Ivan Makarov witnessed General Chuikov pull out his pistol and shoot their regimental commander as a traitor. That was on his first day at the front. Thrown into an open field to face German tanks and artillery fire, with only rifles and machine guns to defend themselves with, almost 2,000 men of his regiment were wiped out in only six days at the Eastern Front. At this rate, Ivan struggled to comprehend how he would survive the hundreds of battles that lay before him, with death seeming to be the only certainty.

An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon…and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly spawn - determined to outrun the world’s end, and somehow begin again.

En estas meditaciones que se presentan bajo la forma de cartas a su amigo Lucilio, Séneca, uno de los mayores exponentes del estoicismo, nos invita a un viaje de introspección y reflexión. Escritas en un momento de crisis política y personal, las misivas no solo tratan temas filosóficos como el paso del tiempo y la naturaleza del mundo, sino que ofrecen consejos prácticos sobre cómo vivir una vida serena y feliz, enfrentando la adversidad con entereza y sabiduría.

1914. For Paul, with love. Jewish silversmith Johann Blumenthal engraved those words on his most exquisite creation, a singing filigree bird inside a tiny ornamented box. He crafted this treasure for his young son before leaving to fight in a terrible war to honor his beloved country - a country that would soon turn against his own family. A half century later, Londoner Lilian Morrison inherits the box after the death of her parents. Though the silver is tarnished and dented, this much-loved treasure is also a link to an astonishing past.

Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of 10 years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.

The Sepher Yetzirah or Book of Formation is perhaps the oldest rabbinical treatise of Kabbalistic philosophy which is still extant. This thoroughly re-edited and revised version helps bring this text to life.

Para Lewis Dartnell la única manera de comprender nuestra historia consiste en explicar cómo nuestro planeta, desde el inicio de los tiempos, ha determinado nuestro destino. Toda especie está condicionada por su entorno.

Daisy Haites siempre ha querido una vida normal, pero eso no es posible para la heredera del imperio criminal más infame de Londres. Fue criada bajo la atenta mirada de su hermano Julian, un capo de la mafia desde el asesinato de sus padres. La vida de Daisy es complicada, y las cosas empeoran cuando se enamora del guapo y distante Christian. Él está enamorado deMagnolia Parks, la novia de su mejor amigo, y usa a Daisy para jugar al despiste, hasta que ella empieza a colarse de verdad en sus sentimientos.

First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale, rendered in unflinching and gory detail. Following Arthur's bloody conquests across the cities and fields of Europe, all the way to his spectacular and even bloodier fall, this masterpiece features some of the most spellbinding and poignant passages in English poetry.

Viajamos con el Escuadrón Cielo a Detritus, el último refugio de la humanidad frente al gobierno hostil de la Supremacía Galáctica. En Escuadrón, Spensa Nitghshade se convirtió en piloto de caza estelar y pasó a formar parte del Escuadrón Cielo de la Fuerza de Defensa Desafiante con el objetivo de combatir la amenaza de la Supremacía. En Estelar, se hizo pasar por la alienígena Alanik para infiltrarse en una estación espacial de la Supremacía y robar sus hipermotores.

They shouldn't have pissed off a virtual world top player by erasing his character for a highly questionable "violation of game rules"—and taking away his valuable in-game possessions. After returning to the virtual world under a different nickname, an unknown newb puts everything on the line by selecting the most difficult Hardcore mode: a single life that's so easy to lose in the dangerous game world.

In Police - the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective - a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters - a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for a nemesis of his past.

One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief system that is finding new adherents even today: Stoicism. How did the Stoics think about religion? In How to Think About God, Philip Freeman presents vivid new translations of Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods and The Dream of Scipio. In these brief works, Cicero offers a Stoic view of belief, divinity, and human immortality, giving eloquent expression to the religious ideas of one of the most popular schools of Roman and Greek philosophy.

El retrato demoledor de una dinastía cuya fortuna se construyó gracias a Valium y cuya reputación fue destruida por OxyContin.

Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life. Erica conceives a memoir about the beautiful but remote Alex, one that will answer questions about their lost friendship. While her interest grows to an obsession, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case.