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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.

In 1995, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin re-defined the next thirty years of currency policy with the mantra, “A strong dollar is in America’s interest.” That mantra held, ushering in exceptional prosperity and cheap foreign goods, but the strong dollar policy also played a role in the devastating hollowing out of America’s manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, abroad, the United States increasingly turned to the dollar as a weapon of war. In Paper Soldiers, Saleha Mohsin reveals how the Treasury Department has shaped U.S. policy at home and overseas by wielding the American dollar as a weapon—and what that means in a new age of crisis. For decades, America has preferred its currency superpower-strong, the basis of a “strong dollar” policy that attracted foreign investors and pleased consumers. Drawing on Mohsin’s unparalleled access to current and former Treasury officials like Robert Rubin, Steven Mnuchin, and Janet Yellen, Paper Soldiers traces that policy’s intended and unintended consequences, including the rise of populist sentiment and trade war with China—culminating in an unprecedented attack on the dollar’s pristine status during the Trump presidency—and connects the dollar’s weaponization from 9/11 to the deployment of crippling financial sanctions against Russia. Ultimately, Mohsin argues that, untethered from many of the economic assumptions of the last generation, the power and influence of the American dollar is now at stake. With first-hand reporting and fresh analysis that illustrates the vast, often unappreciated power that the Treasury Department wields at home and abroad, Paper Soldiers tells the inside story of how we really got here—and the future not only of the almighty dollar, but the nation’s teetering role as a democratic superpower.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a Happily Ever After, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke and bogged down with writer’s block. Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency.

Este es un libro largamente esperado: la poesía completa de una de las autoras más deslumbrantes y admiradas de la literatura reciente. Es también la constatación de un corpus que adquiere toda su coherencia leído desde sus primeras etapas, y consolidado en los títulos que ha asentado su prestigio. Aquí se encuentran, estructurados en tres partes («No pondrás nombre al fuego», «Lo que el pájaro bebe en la fuente y nos es agua» y «Fuera de obra») sus poemas radicales inspirados en las culturas orientales, las fronteras porosas de su poética con la filosofía, y los libros inapelables que plantean la relectura de los mitos y los grandes referentes clásicos, además de sus brillantes exploraciones de las formas caligramáticas, sus interacciones con la pintura, sus nuevas propuestas de poemas dramáticos. Una poesía total que sólo puede apreciarse en un volumen como este.

Publicado originalmente en 1915, Antología de Spoon River es un gran fresco de la vida en un pueblo del Medio Oeste norteamericano que se convierte, por obra y gracia de la palabra poetica, en emblema de los deseos y las pasiones, los miedos y las angustias, las aspiraciones y las renuncias, los triunfos y las derrotas vitales de todos y cada uno de nosotros. Los 244 personajes que desfilan por sus páginas nos hablan desde la tumba y pronuncian su propio epitafio. Al hacerlo, nos dan un fragmento de vida que se entreteje con todos los demás para urdir la gran epopeya norteamericana del siglo veinte. Esta edición bilingüe de Antología de Spoon River, que presentamos en la soberbia traducción de Eduardo Moga, no es solo un libro clásico, sino tambien un libro vivo, crónica palpitante de la interioridad humana. Y sus personajes son una representación fidedigna de los caracteres del mundo, habitantes de un rincón de los Estados Unidos, pero moradores posibles de cualquier nación, de cualquier paisaje.