NOVEDADES

Las enfermedades neurodegenerativas son un desafío para la investigación porque la mayoría afecta al cerebro, el órgano más complejo del cuerpo humano. El alzhéimer es la más prevalente de estas enfermedades y la principal causa de demencia, un gran desafío para la longevidad. Neurodegeneración y alzhéimer explora los avances científicos que están revolucionando nuestra comprensión sobre esta enfermedad, así como los biomarcadores que permiten su detección temprana. Y analiza cómo la aplicación de nuevas tecnologías y el big data están transformando la investigación en este campo, abriendo paso hacia un futuro donde las personas afectadas puedan disfrutar de una mayor calidad de vida. Además, explica ideas y conceptos como la diferencia entre alzhéimer y demencia, que la demencia senil no existe, o cómo podemos actuar individual y colectivamente para prevenir el alzhéimer y otras enfermedades neurodegenerativas. Todo esto respaldado por información sustentada por la investigación científica y el conocimiento profesional y experto. Dirigido a quienes buscan respuestas precisas y confiables sobre este tipo de enfermedades, especialmente el alzhéimer, el libro desmitifica falsas creencias que dificultan su abordaje. Desterrar mitos es crucial para abordar con solvencia los desafíos asociados a estas enfermedades, detectar sus indicios y fomentar la empatía y la inclusión hacia quienes las padecen.

¡Hola! Soy Neurita, la neurona exploradora. Vivo en el cerebro de Cris y mi función es ayudarla a entender sus pensamientos y emociones. En este cuento a Cris le dan una noticia que no le gusta nada: ¡sus padres han decidido mudarse a otra ciudad! Como es lógico, se ha puesto muy triste. Tanto que solo tiene ganas de llorar, y es incapaz de salir de ese estado. Por suerte, sé cómo ayudarla a tomar las riendas de esa tristeza y a convertir los pensamientos grises en momentos llenos de color. ¿Quieres saber cómo? En este libro, además de desvelar qué ocurre en nuestro cuerpo cuando estamos tristes, encontraremos consejos y herramientas para actuar frente a las emociones.

Ivy Stewart thought West Archer Academy was the first step to everything she’d always wanted. The key to her entire future. But now…she might not even have a future. It’s the start of a new semester, and Ivy’s very old friends and her very new immortality are at odds. The Evers, kids who are hundreds of years old and never age, are determined to save Ivy from suffering that same miserable fate…even if it means she won’t remember them. But what’s worse? Forgetting her family, her friends, her life or never turning thirteen?

Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband’s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city that she has always loved. It is also where her two adult daughters now live. As Kezia settles into her new apartment, she meets her movie-star next-door neighbor, Sam Stewart, whose terrace borders hers. Just a couple of weeks after she arrives, however, a devastating crisis strikes New York City. Kezia and Sam find themselves connecting over their strong impulse to help those in need. As they share a life-changing experience of volunteering, a bond is sparked and a friendship is formed. Kezia’s daughters, Kate and Felicity, are taken aback by their mother’s new friendship, both more focused on their own love lives than hers. But Kezia is learning that the changes she’s making are just what she needs to open new horizons. In this powerful and moving new novel, Danielle Steel illuminates the importance of human connection and embracing brave change, proving it’s never too late for a brand-new start.

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus. Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide. What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.