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En estas páginas están registrados los acontecimientos que han dejado huella en la historia de México, desde los pasos inciertos de sus primeros pobladores, en los tiempos prehispánicos, hasta los también inciertos de quienes atravesaron la crisis de los años ochenta del siglo XX. Entre...

Salvation and spiritual perfection should not be sought haphazardly; a strategy is needed to win the battle for our souls. The Spiritual Combat, first published in 1589, provides timeless guidance in spiritual discipline. St. Francis de Sales (1576-1622) read from it himself every day and recommended it to everyone under his direction.

This book isn’t here to make you feel better about your mediocre habits or tell you everything’s going to be okay. It’s here to wake you up to what’s really keeping you from success: you. And once you see it, there’s no going back. You’ll have the tools to finally break free from the cycle of frustration and failure that other books conveniently ignore.

El libro explora la idea central de vivir constantemente con Dios durante los tiempos de oración formal, así como en cada momento de la vida cotidiana. Para Lorenzo, la espiritualidad se extiende a las tareas más mundanas. Trabajando en la cocina del monasterio, encontró que incluso las actividades más simples, como lavar los platos, podían convertirse en actos de amor y adoración a Dios.

En estas meditaciones que se presentan bajo la forma de cartas a su amigo Lucilio, Séneca, uno de los mayores exponentes del estoicismo, nos invita a un viaje de introspección y reflexión. Escritas en un momento de crisis política y personal, las misivas no solo tratan temas filosóficos como el paso del tiempo y la naturaleza del mundo, sino que ofrecen consejos prácticos sobre cómo vivir una vida serena y feliz, enfrentando la adversidad con entereza y sabiduría.

The CHMM Exam Essential Practice by Farcas and Cena is, as the name implies, an essential set of questions for the Certified Hazardous Materials Manager exam. This audiobook is well laid out in 14 sections. It draws the listener in, which certainly assists with the increased retention of the amount of material that has to be covered. The questions are well introduced with a short narrative before introducing the pertinent equations and solution to the over 450 examples of essential questions.

"Timeless Zen wisdom to calm the mind, heal the heart, and transform your life." “To hold on is to suffer. To let go is to be free.” What if the key to peace, clarity, and true happiness has been within you all along? The Zen Way Stories: Timeless Wisdom to Ease Suffering and Cultivate Inner Peace is a transformative journey into the heart of Zen, offering timeless stories and profound insights to assist you in skillfully and gracefully navigating life's obstacles. Through captivating Zen parables, thought-provoking reflections, and simple yet powerful practices, this book reveals how ...

Tres meses atrás aparecieron restos humanos en los vertederos de Pinto y Valdemingómez. Pese a haber dedicado ingentes recursos, no se ha encontrado el cadáver completo y no hay una sola pista de la autoría del crimen. Y lo que es peor: tres meses después sigue sin identificarse a la víctima. Manuela se enfrentará de esta manera al mayor desafío de su carrera como inspectora de homicidios: la Operación Vertedero.

The desert doesn’t forgive. It doesn’t forget. It only buries what it can’t burn. When long-haul trucker Tom pulls into a dusty roadside diner, he finds more than bad coffee and small-town silence. Sue and Becky—two women in a red Camaro—turn his world sideways with charm, danger, and a promise of something he’s been missing all his life.

In the glittering world of art and desire, every masterpiece hides a secret. Elena Vasquez is a rising Manhattan curator whose carefully composed life unravels the night she meets Alex Thorne—a magnetic collector with eyes like sin and a taste for the forbidden. Their chemistry ignites instantly, pulling her into a world where seduction becomes art and pleasure becomes power. But passion has a price. Behind Alex’s charm lies a dangerous connection to a rival bidder and a coveted Matisse sketch worth millions.

In this thrilling novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra—the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers, Gangster, and Midnight Angels—organized crime goes to war with international terrorism in the name of one man’s quest for revenge. My name is Vincent Marelli, though most people call me...

A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best Books of the Year 2020 pick A New York Times New & Noteworthy book One of Logo/NewNowNext's "11 Queer Books We Can't...

The Universe Speaks in Symbols: Unlocking the Hidden Language of the Minor Arcana Within these pages, the Minor Arcana is revealed as more than just a set of cards—it is the universe's hidden language, a cosmic guide to understanding life's complexities. By exploring the mysterious realm of Tarot, you’ll uncover how numerology, symbolism, and alchemy converge to offer insights into the human experience, emotions, and life’s challenges. By embarking on this journey, you will understand: The Language of the Universe: Tarot is a mirror reflecting the hidden wisdom of the universe, ...

First published in 1948, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks is an important Marxist work that says we must understand societies both in terms of their economic relationships and their cultural beliefs. Gramsci wanted to explore why Russia had undergone a socialist revolution in 1917 while other European countries had not. So he developed the concept of hegemony, which is the idea that those who hold power in a society can maintain and use that power because of their own grip on cultural values and economic relationships.

"Ruta 666" es una selección de conceptos como el odio, la sorpresa, la soledad, o el miedo, que te meterá de lleno en algunas de las historias más aterradoradoras del planeta, a través de cuidadas dramatizaciones y de la narración de los hechos reales que han inspirado a las mismas. Porque hay lugares en el mundo a los que merece la pena viajar… Pero solo a través de este original, si es que te atreves.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers and The Wolf, hailed as “simply the best” (Steve Berry) and “one of the most intriguing writers around” (Newsweek). . . . A top NYPD detective is pulled out of retirement to take down a notorious drug dealer. But will he...

What really killed Blockbuster? Most people say Netflix. They’re wrong. At its peak, Blockbuster Video was the undisputed king of home entertainment—over 9,000 stores, 80,000 employees, and more than a billion rentals every year. It wasn’t just a company; it was an American ritual. Friday night meant one thing: Make it a Blockbuster Night. But within a decade, the empire collapsed. In The Last Late Fee: The Rise and Fall of Blockbuster Video, author Lorenzo Di Tonti dismantles the easy narrative that streaming alone destroyed Blockbuster. Instead, he exposes a deeper story—of ...

Nonna Maria, “one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen), dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra. As Nonna Maria’s longtime pal and sometimes colleague, Captain...

Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterized by displacement and domination and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.

El primer caso de la ya famosa pareja, Bevilacqua y la agente Chamorro. El cuerpo desnudo de una joven austriaca pende atado de las manos en un chalet mallorquín. Ni los signos de violencia, ni la pestilencia de una muerte estival ocultan su inquietante belleza. En el revólver hallado en la basura abundan las huellas de una sesentona suiza de fama libertina, pero la vida turbia de la joven, Eva Heydrich —un ser irresistible consagrado tanto al placer como a la destrucción—, sugiere que la sencillez del crimen es tan sólo la punta de un iceberg.