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It''s Kind of a Funny Story

Ned Vizzini · 2007

<br>Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does.  That’s when things start to get crazy.<br><br>At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he’s just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away. The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping—until, one night, he nearly kills himself. <br><br>Craig’s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio.  There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.<br><br>Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. For a novel about depression, it’s definitely a funny story.<br>

La moda en el franquismo

Ana Velasco Molpeceres · 2024

<p>La moda durante el franquismo, periodo aciago marcado por la represión, la escasez y el atraso, coincidió, tras el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con el surgimiento de una nueva sociedad. La cultura pop modificó gustos y actitudes, bajo el liderazgo estadounidense. La alta costura dio paso a la ropa lista para llevar y a los grandes almacenes. La España de la mantilla y las camisas viejas quedó atrás: la minifalda, los vaqueros y el bikini hicieron su aparición. Novedades que también encarnaron las rebeldes chicas topolino, con sus "zapatos de coja" y su llamativo estilo. E incluso muchachas menos extravagantes, más acordes a la Sección Femenina de Falange, que, peinadas con el recogido arriba España, soñaban con casarse con un velo de tul ilusión. Este libro habla de los sueños y las realidades que modelaron y reflejaron las modas en la sociedad española a lo largo de casi cuatro décadas. De Mariquita Pérez, muñeca fascista pero moderna, que acompañó y marcó el vestir de las niñas hasta que tomaban las "galas de mujer". De las creaciones de diseñadores españoles como Ana de Pombo, Flora Villarreal o Balenciaga. También de la Guardia Civil y las incautaciones de tejidos del mercado negro, en el que las medias eran tan preciadas como los cigarrillos y las drogas. Del Sindicato Nacional del Textil; de los salones de belleza, los desfiles de modelos y de la tienda Loewe en el Castellana Hilton, donde compraba Ava Gardner.<br></p>

1984

George Orwell · 2013

<p>75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION</p><p>“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker</p><p>In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.</p><p>Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.</p>

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears · 2023

Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more!<br/><br/>“In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York Times<br/><br/>Over 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), “radiant” (The New York Times), “poignant” (Vogue) #1 New York Times bestseller. The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.<br/><br/>In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.<br/><br/>Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

Moda transgresora

Caroline Young · 2023

Se examina paso a paso la historia de la moda moderna a través de las piezas que se apartaron del canon y se presentan aquellos momentos que cuestionaron conscientemente los límites, que desafiaron las normas establecidas y que causaron un terremoto que aún retumba en la actualidad -- Amazon.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon · 2004

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.<br/><br/>“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.<br/><br/>This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

Alexander McQueen

· 2015

This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen invites you into the creative mind and world of one of Britain’s most brilliant, daring, and provocative designers, and the many themes and references that shaped his visionary fashion collections.<br/><br/>“He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen’s influence was astonishing—from street style, to music culture and the world’s museums.” —Anna Wintour, editor, Vogue magazine<br/><br/>A true comprehensive study, this catalog is the first in-depth look at McQueen and explores key themes of the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition—tailoring, gothic, primitivism, naturalism, and futurism. Curated by London College of Fashion lecturer Claire Wilcox, the book also features previously unseen material as well as groundbreaking essays and feature spreads by multiple authors and leading fashion commentators.<br/><br/>This kaleidoscopic approach explores themes central to the designer’s work and his collections: The psychology of fashion Natural history The theater and spectacle of his shows His key creative collaborators And much more! Alexander McQueen also offers an encyclopedic survey of McQueen’s catwalk collections, illustrated with striking images by leading fashion photographers and specially commissioned photographs that capture the breathtaking skill of his designs and awesome theatricality of his shows. More than a coffee table book, this is a representation of one man’s genius, a genius that left the world of fashion all too soon.<br/><br/>For anyone who loved and admired Alexander McQueen and his work, for anyone with a passion for British style, and for those who want to better understand McQueen’s place in the history of fashion, this is a one-of-a-kind illustrated treasure.

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estés Phd · 1995

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—<i>The Washington Post Book World</i><br><br>Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf<br></b><br> Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.<br><br> In <i>Women Who Run with the Wolves</i>, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.<br><br> Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Social Intelligence

Daniel Goleman · 2006

Pizarnik, poesía completa

Poesía

Lone Rider

Elspeth Beard · 2017

Pizarnik, poesía completa

Poesía

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann · 2015

Hamlet

William Shakespeare · 1980

Dioses y reyes: Ascenso y caída de John Galliano y Alexander McQueen

Dana Thomas · 2018

Alexander McQueen y John Galliano tuvieron vidas similares. Ambos provenían de familias humildes, se criaron en un entorno hostil a su personalidad, estudiaron en la escuela Saint Martins y los dos, gracias a su talento y tesón, crearon con éxito sus propias marcas y triunfaron en Dior y Givenchy. Pero la misma pasión que les encumbró fue la que les hundió. Si la moda es reflejo de su tiempo, ambos diseñadores fueron el espejo del mayor cambio experimentado en la industria en el último siglo. Su talento creativo y su capacidad para generar espectáculo fueron aprovechados por las grandes corporaciones para llevar la moda a otro nivel, más comercial y menos creativo. Un cambio de modelo que transformó la industria. Dana Thomas ha escrito las biografías cruzadas de ambos diseñadores, y consigue un triple retrato humano, creativo y económico de la época.

Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann · 2015

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman · 1997

A work of fantasy, I Who Have Never Known Men is the haunting and unforgettable account of a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed groups of men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, the only one with no memory of what the world was like before the cages, who must teach herself, without books or sexual contact, the essential human emotions of longing, loving, learning, companionship, and dying. Part thriller, part mystery, I Who Have Never Known Men shows us the power of one person without memories to reinvent herself piece by piece, emotion by emotion, in the process teaching us much about what it means to be human.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Stephen Hawking · 2018

If Cats Disappeared From The World

Kawamura Genki

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La Mujer Rota

Simone de Beauvoir · 2014

La Mujer Rota

Dopamine Nation

Dr. Anna Lembke · 2023

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman · 2009

<b>A 25th anniversary edition of the number one, multi-million copy international bestseller that taught us how emotional intelligence is more important than IQ - 'a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea' (<i>Harvard Business Review</i>)</b><br><b><br></b><i><b>Featuring a new introduction from the author</b><br></i><br>Does IQ define our destiny? In his groundbreaking bestseller, Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow. It is not our IQ, but our <i>emotional intelligence</i> that plays a major role in thought, decision-making and individual success. Self-awareness, impulse control, persistence, motivation, empathy and social deftness: all are qualities that mark people who excel, whose relationships flourish, who can navigate difficult conversations, who become stars in the workplace.<br><br>With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us.<br>

Ex-Wife

Ursula Parrott · 2023

<b>An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age. </b><br><br>It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department store. When it comes to sex with other people, both believe in “the honesty policy.” Until they don‘t. Or, at least, until Peter doesn‘t—and a shell-shocked, lovesick Patricia finds herself starting out all over again, but this time around as a different kind of single woman: the ex-wife.<br> <br> An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, <i>Ex-Wife</i> captures the speakeasies, night clubs, and parties that defined Jazz Age New York—alongside the morning-after aspirin and calisthenics, the lunch-hour visits to the gym, the girl-talk, and the freedoms and anguish of solitude. It also casts a cool eye on the bedrooms and the doctor’s offices where, despite rising hemlines, the men still call the shots. The result is a unique view of what its author Ursula Parrott called “the era of the one-night stand”: an era very much like our own.

Pizarnik, poesía completa

Poesía

God of Fury

Rina Kent · 2023

six of crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

De tanto amarte, me olvidé de mí

Walter Riso · 2023

Teen Angst? Naaah . . .

Ned Vizzini · 2012

In Teen Angst! Naaah . . . Ned Vizzini offers an authentic and raw portrayal of the crushing anxiety many teens experience, and which often is dismissed as simple ‘angst’. In this classic testament to high school, Ned invites you into his world of school, parents, cool (and almost cool), music (the good and bad), friends, fame, camp, sex (sort of), Cancún (almost), prom, beer, video games, and more.  With wit, irony, and honesty, Vizzini presents the weird, funny, and sometimes mortifying moments that made up his teen years. From the author of Broadway musical sensation Be More Chill and It's Kind of a Funny Story, this is a quasi-autobiographical examination of one high schooler’s battle with social anxiety, written when the author was just nineteen.  “Fiercely intelligent and introspective . . . Insightful, and thoroughly charming.” —SLJ

La conformista

Alba Dedeu · 2024

El universo en tu mano

Christophe Galfard · 2020

No estás solo en el universo. Y no estás solo en este viaje por el universo. Estás tumbado mirando el cielo en una playa cuando alguien te coge de la mano. Te guía en una odisea alucinante hasta los agujeros negros, las galaxias más lejanas y el inicio mismo del cosmos. Abandonas tu cuerpo y te desplazas a velocidades imposibles, te introduces en un núcleo atómico, viajas en el tiempo, entras en el Sol. No es que te expliquen el universo. Es que lo tocas. No es que por fin entiendas el universo. Lo tienes en tu mano. **** Christophe Galfard, el mejor discípulo de Stephen Hawking, es uno de los divulgadores científicos más renombrados del planeta. "El universo en tu mano" ha recibido el premio al mejor libro de ciencia de 2015 en Francia, donde lleva vendidos más de 50.000 ejemplares.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

A new edition of Henry David Thoreau's 1854 classic work, Walden, a reflection on the simplicity and beauty of a life in nature. Walden recounts Thoreau's experiences over a two year, two month, and two day period in which he lived by himself in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, located in an isolated stretch of woodland outside Concord, Massachusetts. In Walden, Thoreau marries the physical with the transcendent -- intermixing precise scientific observations of the flora and fauna he encounters and changes in the pond itself with poetic and metaphorical musings on nature. A middling success in Thoreau's own life, Walden has proven to be an enduring classic and one of the most celebrated works of 19th century nonfiction literature.<br/><br/>"In one book ... [Thoreau] surpasses everything we have had in America." -- Robert Frost<br/><br/>Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, philosopher, and leading figure in the transcendentalist movement.Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience."

Inseparable

Simone de Beauvoir · 2021

Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize A novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays “Beauvoir's genius as a fiction writer” (Wall Street Journal)  From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next ten years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War One France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril. Sylvie, insightful and observant, sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy—and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée, a tempestuous dreamer, is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women. Deemed too intimate to publish during Simone de Beauvoir’s life, Inseparable offers fresh insight into the groundbreaking feminist’s own coming-of-age; her transformative, tragic friendship with her childhood friend Zaza Lacoin; and how her youthful relationships shaped her philosophy. Sandra Smith’s vibrant translation of the novel will be long cherished by de Beauvoir devotees and first-time readers alike.

Filosofia de la moda

Georg Simmel · 2014

"La moda è uno degli scritti più belli di Georg Simmel, forse il suo capolavoro, perché all'interno di una produzione saggistica magistrale si distingue per organicità, chiarezza e compiutezza: affronta un problema specifico, di grande fascino, e giunge a specifiche conclusioni, senza che per questo alcuni temi «classici» generali della filosofia: soggettività ed oggettività, libertà e necessità, essere e divenire, sostanza e funzione, vengano ignorati. Simmel sembra valersi qui dello straordinario vantaggio dell'arte nei confronti della filosofia, di cui parla nell'introduzione alla Filosofia del denaro (1900), e che «consiste nel fatto di porsi ogni volta un unico problema rigorosamente circoscritto, sia questo un uomo, un paesaggio o uno stato d'animo, in modo tale che ogni estensione dello stesso verso il generale, ogni richiamo a tratti più ampi dell'intuizione del mondo venga percepito come un arricchimento, un dono, un beneficio immeritato». Un vantaggio che forse non è solo dell'arte, come Simmel affermava, ma anche della scienza, in questo caso della sociologia." (Lucio Perucchi)<br/>Con uno scritto di György Lukács.

La casa de los espiritus / The House of the Spirits (Spanish Edition)

Isabel Allende · 2017