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San Francisco, 1866: una monja irlandesa, embarazada y abandonada por un aristócrata chileno tras una apasionada relación, da a luz a una niña a la que llama Emilia del Valle. Criada por su cariñoso padrastro, Emilia se convertirá en una joven brillante de gran personalidad, autónoma e independiente, que desafiará las normas sociales de su tiempo para profesar su verdadera pasión y vocación: la escritura.

¿Sientes que tu mente nunca descansa? ¿Te cuesta dejar de darle vueltas a todo, incluso cuando sabes que no te lleva a ningún sitio? ¿Te gustaría, de una vez por todas, liberarte de las cadenas de tus propios pensamientos y recuperar el control de tu vida? Descubre el método de 30 días para dominar tu mente, eliminar el pensamiento negativo y vivir sin ansiedad. Si estás leyendo estas líneas, probablemente eres de los que le dan mil vueltas a cada decisión, revives errores del pasado o anticipas catástrofes futuras. No estás solo… pero seguir atrapado en esa dinámica puede ...

El autor de los éxitos Tu vida tu mejor negocio y Empresa admirada nos trae ahora un texto para los líderes empresariales. En la actualidad existe una demanda de líderes que sepan resolver problemas, actuar con asertividad, dar respuestas rápidas y tener facilidad para conectar con las personas. Para muchos de ellos la tarea de transformar organizaciones representa un reto difícil de alcanzar en un entorno cada vez más competitivo y exigente. En este contexto de cambios e incertidumbre, el recurso más urgente y escaso es el liderazgo.

James Clear nos brinda fantásticas ideas basadas en investigaciones científicas, que le permiten revelarnos cómo podemos transformar pequeños hábitos cotidianos para cambiar nuestra vida y mejorarla. Esta guía pone al descubierto las fuerzas ocultas que moldean nuestro comportamiento - desde nuestra mentalidad, pasando por el ambiente y hasta la genética - y nos demuestra cómo aplicar cada cambio a nuestra vida y a nuestro trabajo. Después de leer este libro, tendrás un método sencillo para desarrollar un sistema eficaz que te conducirá al éxito.

Cazzu es una de las traperas más importantes de Latinoamérica. No es casual que la llamen La Jefa. No es casual que su perreo moleste a muchos, interpele a tantas, y no deje indiferente a nadie. Durante años, Cazzu se enfrentó a una pregunta: “¿Cómo se siente tener éxito en un género musical tan machista?”. Y como le ocurre a casi cualquier mujer virtuosa y con notoriedad, le pidieron que diera explicaciones. Pero ¿por qué se lo preguntaban más a ella que a los hombres? Y, sobre todo, ¿es realmente machista el reggaetón?

Gabriel de León ha perdido la oportunidad de acabar con la noche sin fin. Ahora, embarcado en una incierta alianza con una vampira, se propone recurrir a la enigmática estirpe Esani para averiguar cómo deshacer la muerte de los días...

La Guía Definitiva para Ganar Cualquier Discusión Sin Perder la Calma (o Tus Relaciones) ¿Te cuesta hacer valer tu punto de vista en debates, negociaciones o conversaciones cotidianas? ¿Alguna vez te has sentido manipulado, superado o acorralado en medio de una discusión? ¿Quieres aprender las tácticas psicológicas que los grandes persuadores utilizan para ganar, manteniéndose éticos y serenos? Si respondiste "SÍ" a alguna de estas preguntas, no estás solo. Todos los días, muchas personas se sienten frustradas, incomprendidas o sobrepasadas en conversaciones que realmente importan.

Uniendo el punto de vista científico, psicológico y humano, la autora nos ofrece una reflexión profunda, salpicada de útiles consejos y con vocación eminentemente didáctica, acerca de la aplicación de nuestras propias capacidades al empeño de procurarnos una existencia plena y feliz: conocer y optimizar determinadas zonas del cerebro, fijar metas y objetivos en la vida, ejercitar la voluntad, poner en marcha la inteligencia emocional, desarrollar la asertividad, evitar el exceso de autocrítica y autoexigencia, reivindicar el papel del optimismo....

Discute menos, habla más te ofrece estrategias fáciles de aplicar que cambiarán para siempre tu forma de comunicarte. Como abogado especializado en tribunales y experto en comunicación efectiva, Jefferson Fisher ha enseñado a millones de personas a discutir menos y hablar más. Ahora, ofrece un plan que te mostrará cómo transformar tu vida y tus relaciones de conversación en conversación.

Al finalizar este libro, estarás preparada para: Silenciar a tu crítica interior y dar voz a tu animadora interna que te proporcionará dosis diarias de positividad. Descubrir y abrazar tus cualidades únicas, transformándolas en tus superpoderes. Cultivar una imagen corporal positiva que irradie autenticidad, incluso en una era de apariencias idealizadas. Convertir tus fracasos en lecciones y transformar los reveses en relatos épicos de resiliencia. Desarrollar una práctica de gratitud que destaque la belleza de la vida cotidiana...

¿Te sientes atrapado en tu propia mente, luchando constantemente contra el estrés, la duda y el análisis excesivo? ¿Tus pensamientos tóxicos están saboteando tu felicidad y tus relaciones? ¿Desearías poder silenciar el ruido en tu cabeza y vivir con claridad y confianza? Para muchos, el pensamiento excesivo no es solo un hábito ocasional, sino una tormenta constante de preocupaciones, dudas y escenarios catastróficos. Te mantiene despierto por las noches, te roba la alegría y genera conflictos innecesarios en tus relaciones. ¿Lo peor? Parece imposible detenerlo.

Susan Clayton trabaja en la sección de pasatiempos y enigmas de una revista. Un día es sorprendida por una nota anónima que la espera en el buzón de su casa. Horrorizada, descifra el mensaje oculto: «Te he encontrado». El mensaje es realmente inquietante, más aún en el mundo en que se ha convertido Estados Unidos: incapaz de frenar la escalada de violencia, todos atesoran armas para protegerse. Sólo una comunidad ha logrado sobreponerse a este infierno de inseguridad y crímenes: a cambio de renunciar a algunos derechos y libertades...

¿Sientes que el dinero nunca te alcanza, por más duro que trabajes? ¿Te gustaría alcanzar la libertad financiera, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? ¿Quieres dejar de sobrevivir y empezar a vivir? Hábitos Millonarios SMART es una guía clara y práctica que te ayudará a escapar de la carrera de la rata y empezar a construir tu libertad financiera con pequeños pero poderosos cambios diarios. A lo largo de estas páginas, aprenderás a: • Identificar tu verdadero porqué financiero y usarlo como motor de cambio • Ahorrar sin sentir que te estás privando de vivir • Gestionar tu ...

Descubre los secretos para eliminar pensamientos y conductas negativas y desbloquear todo tu potencial para el éxito. Si te sientes atrapado, abrumado o incapaz de escapar de tus pensamientos negativos, este libro te pondrá en el camino correcto. Ya sea que esta negatividad provenga de una relación pasada que terminó mal, un trauma infantil, un fracaso profesional o simple inseguridad, este libro te ayudará a reconocer cómo la negatividad consciente (y muchas veces inconsciente) afecta tu personalidad, tu perspectiva y tus decisiones.

¿Qué pasaría si la felicidad, el éxito y el amor fueran más fáciles de alcanzar de lo que crees? En su nuevo audio libro, Mel Robbins, reconocida experta en motivación y mentalidad, te propone un enfoque revolucionario: aprender a soltar. Soltar las expectativas, el control, las comparaciones y el miedo para empezar a vivir plenamente.

In the six lectures of Great Heroes and Heroines of Hawaiian Heritage, you will meet some of the key figures of Hawaiian history from the 19th and 20th centuries, a tumultuous period in Hawaii’s transformation from a secluded group of independent islands to the 50th US state and a bustling tourist destination. With Leilani Basham of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa as your guide, you’ll be introduced to the political leaders, scholars, activists, and artists who have been integral to Hawaii’s story and the preservation of Hawaiian culture.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it’s the belief that the intense loyalty within the electorate toward Democrats and Republicans is the source of our democratic ills—division, dysfunction, distrust, and disinformation. The possibilities that responsible partisanship can offer were at the heart of an important intellectual tradition that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, one which was institutionalized through a sweeping set of congressional reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.

An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.

Economist and writer Chris Hughes takes us on a journey through the modern history of American capitalism, relating the captivating stories of the most effective marketcrafters and the ones who bungled the job. He reveals how both Republicans and Democrats have consistently attempted to organize markets for social and political reasons, like avoiding gasoline shortages, reducing inflation, fostering the American aviation and semiconductor industries, fighting climate change, and supporting financial innovation.

After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race in college admissions was unconstitutional, many predicted that the black middle class was doomed. One byproduct of a half century of affirmative action is that it has given people the impression that blacks can’t advance without special treatment. In The Affirmative Action Myth, Jason L. Riley details the neglected history of black achievement without government intervention. Using empirical data, Riley shows how black families lifted themselves out of poverty prior to the racial preference policies of the 1960s and 1970s.

With impeccable research and original reporting, Mark Whitaker tells the story of Malcolm X’s far-reaching posthumous legacy. It stretches from founders of the Black Power Movement such as Stokely Carmichael and Huey Newton to hip-hop pioneers such as Public Enemy and Tupac Shakur. Leaders of the Black Arts and Free Jazz movements from Amiri Baraka to Maya Angelou, August Wilson, and John Coltrane credited their political awakening to Malcolm, as did some of the most influential athletes of our time, from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and beyond.

Personhood chronicles the internal struggles and changing ideas about race, sex, religion, war, corporate rights, and poverty that shaped the personhood struggle over half a century. The book explores how Americans came to take for granted that fetal personhood requires criminalization and suggests that other ways of valuing both fetal life and women's equality might be possible.

A sweeping and deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them in an attempt to destroy Native culture and life.

A respectful, thoughtful, yet clear-eyed reframing of a national hero’s personal and political odyssey, My Father’s House is John Conyers III's love letter to his father and a record of his own journey. Conyers reveals a towering figure in modern American political history and an ordinary family man; a leader whose work in Washington necessitated his many absences as a father from a son coming of age in Detroit.

Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power to keep a person enslaved in mind and body, power to resist oppression. In the decades before the Civil War, Southern governments drove Black literacy underground, but it was too precious to be entirely stamped out.

Hard Neighbors follows the people who came to be known as Scotch-Irish and traces their relations with Native Americans, examines their experiences as marginalized people, and demonstrates their roles as protective and disruptive forces on the edge of colonialism. The Scotch-Irish fought Indian wars and shaped the frontier, and their experiences living near and fighting against Indians shaped their identity and their attitudes towards government. They influenced national attitudes and policies, and they transformed Indian people into racial others as they transformed themselves into Americans.

The story of John B. King Jr.’s inspiring path to President Obama’s Cabinet begins the day that his mother died. He insisted on going to school that day, knowing he would find comfort in his classroom. As he navigated living alone with a father dying from undiagnosed Alzheimer’s, it was public school teachers who saved his life. King’s teachers believed in him and saw his potential. They made school a safe, supportive, and engaging place where King could be a kid despite the challenges at home.

Acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and the assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy.

How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Cooper argues that the American and Chinese militaries are following a well-trodden path. For centuries, the world's most powerful militaries have adhered to a remarkably consistent pattern of behavior, determined largely by their leaders' perceptions of relative power shifts. By uncovering these trends, this book places the evolving military competition between the United States and China in historical context.

Historically, Black Americans’ quest for power has been understood as an attempt to gain equal protections under the law. But power in America requires more than basic democratic freedoms. It is inextricably linked with economic influence and ownership—of one’s self, home, business, and creations. Andre M. Perry draws on extensive research and analysis to quantify how much power Black Americans actually have.

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Black political activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, which had a following of more than six million African descended people worldwide. Despite his massive popularity, this Jamaican born international leader was wrongfully sentenced to prison by the U.S. government on trumped-up mail-fraud charges.

On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley—better known at that point by her outlaw sobriquet “Belle Starr”—was blown from her horse saddle and killed by a pair of shotgun blasts, delivered by an unseen assailant, only a few miles away from her home in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma. Thus ended the life of one of the most colorful, authentic, and dangerous women in the history of the American West.

Fascinating, far-reaching, and definitive, THE LAST GREAT DREAM is the ultimate guide to a generation-defining countercultural movement, an Underground 101 course for newcomers and aficionados alike.

In The Raider, Cundill Prize-winning historian Stephen R. Platt gives us the first authoritative account of Carlson’s larger-than-life exploits: the real story, based on years of research including newly discovered diaries and correspondence in English and Chinese, with deep insight into the conflicted idealism about the Chinese Communists that would prove Carlson’s undoing in the McCarthy era. Tracing the rise and fall of an unlikely American war hero, The Raider is a story of exploration, of cultural (mis)understanding, and of one man’s awakening to the sheer breadth of the world.

In November 2012, Showtime debuted a ten-part documentary series based on Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States. The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history over the 20th century. The book and documentary looked back at human events that, at the time, went underreported, but also crucially shaped America’s unique and complex history over the twentieth century.

The daughter of Irish immigrants, Margaret Heckler represented the American dream. She served as a congresswoman, a presidential cabinet secretary, and an ambassador—all groundbreaking achievements for a woman of her era. The fiery Irish Republican (R-MA) mastered the seemingly unbeatable game of being a woman in a man's world and a Republican in a Democratic state, becoming a champion for others against all odds.

When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, Pike sought to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. But she arrived in La Paz with trepidation as well as excitement, 'knowing I followed in the footsteps of Western colonizers and missionaries who had also claimed they were there to help.'

In Crisis on Mount Hood, author and emergency room doctor Christopher Van Tilburg looks at the history of America's oldest all-volunteer mountain rescue team, the Hood River Crag Rats, and his own three-decade commitment to search and rescue. Centered on Oregon's iconic 11,249-foot-high Mount Hood, considered by many to be the world's most-climbed glaciated peak, this dramatic narrative leads listeners through a century of life-and-death challenges.

Thanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's ode "La Grange," many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more complex, lying somewhere between heartbreaking and absurd. For more than a century, dirt farmers and big-cigar politicians alike rubbed shoulders at the Chicken Ranch, operated openly under the sheriff's watchful eye. Madam Edna Milton and her girls ran a tight, discreet ship. That is, until a secret conspiracy enlisted an opportunistic reporter to bring it all crashing down on primetime television.