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When Jessica Chen entered the workforce, she felt like everything she had been taught growing up in a Quiet Culture household—where deference, humility, harmony, and dogged hard work were praised—failed to set her up for success in the “real world.” Her ingrained values were in direct contrast with what was actually needed to stand out in a Loud Culture workplace. The result? Feeling underappreciated, passed over for opportunities and promotions, and completely stuck. Building on the lessons she learned as an award-winning TV news journalist, Chen—who now speaks at Fortune 100 companies and whose LinkedIn Learning courses have been watched by over 2 million people—introduces a new way of getting noticed at work, without being loud, aggressive, or boastful. In Smart, Not Loud, Chen teaches readers how they can look within, to the values they already hold, to more effectively show up.

Este volumen contiene siete novelas –Cosmética del enemigo, Antichrista, Ácido sulfúrico, Diario de Golondrina, Viaje de invierno, Matar al padre, Pétronille– unidas por el carácter oscuro y perverso de sus tramas y personajes. Son narraciones que exploran las vulnerabilidades, dependencias emocionales y retorcidas fantasías que anidan en los recovecos de la mente humana. Y lo hacen con la aplaudida agudeza, cáustico humor y vivaz estilo de Amélie Nothomb. Un hombre que espera en un aeropuerto entabla a regañadientes conversación con un desconocido que le empieza a contar una atroz historia criminal; la amistad entre dos chicas se convierte en una tortuosa relación de manipulación y dominio; un programa de telerrealidad somete a sus concursantes a situaciones inimaginables que el público contempla embobado y encantado; un individuo trata de recuperar el deseo a través del crimen; una novelista de éxito aquejada de un peculiar autismo escribe bajo los cuidados de su agente; un mago establece un vínculo paternofilial de consecuencias incontrolables con un discípulo; una novelista consagrada y su nueva y joven amiga comparten andanzas etílicas llenas de diversión y riesgo…

If you're injuring someone, you should stop—and pay for the damage you've caused. Why, this book asks, does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status-quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what’s at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live—which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.

En 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, acuciado por necesidades económicas y animado por el interés que habían despertado las dos primeras novelas de Sherlock Holmes, ofreció a la revista Strand Magazine una serie de narraciones breves del genial detective a la que siguieron otras. «El formato del relato resultó ser el más apropiado a la publicación por entregas», explica Juan Antonio Molina Foix, traductor y editor de estos cuentos completos. «En cada uno se contaba una aventura completa de la pareja protagonista pero se establecían alusiones y relaciones entre todos ellos... La brevedad de los textos obligó a Conan Doyle a desarrollar una eficaz economía de medios, basada en su innegable habilidad para reflejar una atmósfera y unos personajes con unos pocos brochazos... Londres sigue siendo el decorado idóneo para estas aventuras, que transcurren casi siempre entre intrincados, sombríos y desiertos callejones, malolientes tabernuchas, fumaderos de opio y hoteles de lujo.» El presente volumen reúne las 19 últimas historias del sabueso de Baker Street, agrupadas en sus dos colecciones originales, a las que se ha añadido una introducción y un álbum de ilustraciones, además de multitud de notas explicativas, que convierten esta edición en la más completa y documentada de los relatos de Sherlock Holmes en lengua española.

An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic. These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology – that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse, and how we can minimize the damage. Power Metal is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world.

To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force.