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McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of dollars in fees from major corporations and governments who turn to it to maximize their profits and enhance efficiency. McKinsey's vaunted statement of values asserts that its role is to make the world a better place, and its reputation for excellence and discretion attracts top talent from universities around the world. But what does it actually do? In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Often McKinsey's advice boils down to major cost-cutting, including layoffs and maintenance reductions, to drive up short-term profits, thereby boosting a company's stock price and the wealth of its executives who hire it, at the expense of workers and safety measures. McKinsey collects millions of dollars advising government agencies that also regulate McKinsey's corporate clients. And the firm frequently advises competitors in the same industries, but denies that this presents any conflict of interest. In one telling example, McKinsey advised a Chinese engineering company allied with the communist government which constructed artificial islands, now used as staging grounds for the Chinese Navy—while at the same time taking tens of millions of dollars from the Pentagon, whose chief aim is to counter Chinese aggression. Shielded by NDAs, McKinsey has escaped public scrutiny despite its role in advising tobacco and vaping companies, purveyors of opioids, repressive governments, and oil companies. McKinsey helped insurance companies' boost their profits by making it incredibly difficult for accident victims to get payments; worked its U.S. government contacts to let Wall Street firms evade scrutiny; enabled corruption in developing countries such as South Africa; undermined health-care programs in states across the country. And much more. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a landmark work of investigative reporting that amounts to a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future. Memory, Dr. Ranganath shows, is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks, like finding our keys, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What’s more, when we work with the brain’s ability to learn and reinterpret past events, we can heal trauma, shed our biases, learn faster, and grow in self-awareness.

Brujas célebres. Justo cuando Juana de Arco, la milagrosa heroína que salvó Francia, estaba a punto de ser quemada tras haber sido condenada a morir en la hoguera, es enviada a otro mundo. Y allí donde va a parar, se encuentra con 32 valientes mujeres a las que llaman “brujas”, que han dejado su nombre grabado en la historia para la posteridad. Cuando todas esas “brujas” están reunidas, se anuncia el comienzo del Walpurgis: Las mil noches de sanguinaria batalla entre brujas, en el que todas deben matarse entre ellas poniendo en juego sus propias “codicias”.

Unas brujas muy especiales. Justo cuando Juana de Arco, la milagrosa heroína que salvó Francia, estaba a punto de ser quemada tras haber sido condenada a morir en la hoguera, es enviada a otro mundo. Y allí donde va a parar, se encuentra con 32 valientes mujeres a las que llaman “brujas”, que han dejado su nombre grabado en la historia para la posteridad. Cuando todas esas “brujas” están reunidas, se anuncia el comienzo del Walpurgis: Las mil noches de sanguinaria batalla entre brujas, en el que todas deben matarse entre ellas poniendo en juego sus propias “codicias”.

Una lucha entre heroínas históricas. ¡¡Llega la conclusión del segundo combate de la primera ronda del Walpurgis: Las mil noches de sanguinaria batalla entre brujas, entre Wu Zetian y Juana de Arco!! ¿¡En qué consistirá la magia de Juana de Arco, la bruja de la “nada”, que ni tan siquiera conoce cuál es su propia “codicia”!? ¡¡Y además, da comienzo el tercer combate, ese en el que se enfrentan dos de las favoritas: Himiko VS Cleopatra!!