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In 2014, Steve Case launched Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, an initiative to accelerate the growth of tech startups across the country. Rise of the Rest is based on a simple idea: cities can be renewed and rise again if they develop a vibrant startup culture. A visionary entrepreneur himself, Case believes that great entrepreneurs can be found anywhere, and can thrive with the proper support and investment. In fact, they’re key to the American DNA. After all, America itself was a startup. It struggled to get going and almost didn’t make it. Today it’s the leader of the free world, in part because it has the world’s largest economy—a testament to several generations of pioneering entrepreneurs.

Eclipse is a former MI-6 agent that uses shadow-based powers and technology to pursue the criminal world of human and sex traffickers. She goes after the creeps, organized crime, and those that are highly connected. Using her powers, skills, and social media she shines an undeniable light on the accused that is politically and socially impossible to ignore or squirm out of.

This Charles Dickens classic is the powerful satiric novel of selfish hypocrisy and financial speculation as it bloomed in insular England and in the spacious but narrow minds of the US. It is a novel that has relevance to today’s frequent financial crises.

In Chancery, the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic social satire The Forsyte Saga, follows the events of A Man of Property. After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband, Soames, Irene Forsyte finally leaves her marriage for good. Though socially disgraced by her affair, she forms a bond with Old Jolyon, a father of the Forsyte clan who had grown distant from the family after reconciling with one of his outcast sons.

Maid in Waiting is the beginning novel in the last trilogy of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles. In this 7th installment, the story continues of the lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths of the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes.

In To Let, Irene's son Jon and Soames' daughter Fleur, now both 19 years old, fall in love. But when Jon learns of the past feud between their families, he decides that he cannot marry Fleur. To drive her from his mind, he travels to America with his mother Irene. Fleur now throws herself at her long-standing admirer, Michael Mont, a fashionable baronet's son, and the two are married.

The White Monkey is the fourth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and marks the opening of the second trilogy in the series, called A Modern Comedy. In this new chapter, Fleur and Michael Mont begin to question their marriage when their good friend, author Wilfred Desert, can no longer contain his passion for Fleur. Fleur finds herself torn between her love for Michael and passion for Wilfred.

John Galsworthy's epic Forsyte Chronicles, a nine-volume series of novels dramatizing the fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians, the Forsytes, has become established as one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature. He made their lives and times, loves and losses so real that readers accused him of including real individuals whom they knew as the characters in his drama.

The "man of property", Soames Forsyte, has mellowed with the passing of the years until, in his old age, he is a patient and benign figure, guarding with especial tenderness the welfare of his daughter, Fleur. But all his watchfulness and devotion are powerless to avert tragedy when Fleur revives her old love affair with Jon Forsyte on Jon's return to England with his American wife.

Case Keenum has traveled one of the most unique paths in the NFL. Recruited by just one college, undrafted, and released three times, Case has overcome every obstacle to become a successful starting quarterback. Keenum shares stories from every stage of his life, starting out as a ball boy for his father’s college team in West Texas, going on to win a state title in high school, and rewriting the NCAA record book at the University of Houston. A devastating knee injury almost derailed his football career, but helped him get closer to the woman who would soon become his wife.

Galsworthy¿s masterly portrait of the Forsyte family continues here with the fifth novel, The Silver Spoon, coming second in the second trilogy, called A Modern Comedy.

As a teenager Molly case is admitted to hospital for an operation that will save her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating theatre again, this time as a trainee nurse. In How To Treat People, Molly brings together these extraordinary moments, when the professional and the personal become inseparable. She introduces us to patients with whom we share the pain, the fear but also the life-affirming moments of illness.

Las indómitas rinde tributo al rostro anónimo de las mujeres que lucharon en la Revolución, a la inconfundible Jesusa Palancares y al silencio de las mujeres del servicio. Madres, activistas, revolucionarias, artistas y trabajadoras incansables; desde sus trincheras, han luchado por trastocar el orden patriarcal, pero también han sido el motor que le ha dado un nuevo giro a la historia y cuyo brillante ejemplo es el faro que nos guía hacia al futuro.

Forget settling or “settling down”—you deserve a love that upgrades every aspect of your life. A love that empowers you to get hotter, happier, and more fulfilled… together. The host of the podcast New Mindset, Who Dis? helps you find a partnership that fills your life with “can you believe we did that?” moments, where “let’s book a flight and go” is as common as “I love you."

Ferran Cases es el principal referente en nuestro idioma por lo que respecta a la ansiedad, que sufrió en propia carne a lo largo de su adolescencia y primera juventud. Tras probar toda clase de medios para tranquilizar su mente, desde entonces se dedica a divulgar valiosas técnicas para mitigar este mal moderno. Locutado por él mismo, en este entretenido audiolibro descubriremos los secretos de la ansiedad, así como las diferentes formas de desactivarla, incluyendo respiraciones, ejercicios de relajación, afirmaciones y otras vías para vivir de forma tranquila y positiva.

El primer capítulo de una serie policiaca sobre el México más profundo y disparatado. Lo llaman simplemente El Señor, y dirige el peligroso cártel de Constanza. Hasta ahora, nada parece amenazar su poder. Pero un buen día, El Güero, uno de sus sicarios más confiables, se ve en problemas para cumplir una orden aparentemente rutinaria. Y un trío de jóvenes misteriosos se hace notar por una racha de asaltos despiadados a tiendas de autoservicio. Ambas historias terminarán por cruzarse y por cambiar para siempre el orden de las cosas en el cártel…

Tío Vaina es una selección de cuentos enmarcados en escenarios habitados por personajes urbanos que describen experiencias que el autor ha vivido, imaginado o escuchado sobre Bogotá, tratadas con una buena dosis de humor negro, ironía y burla que conducen a desenlaces insospechados.

Este libro se encuentra dividido en dos partes. En la primera, "Leer y comprender en las aulas", de Aline de la Macorra, se habla sobre la lectura de textos y la lectura de imágenes. Se describe la diferencia entre cuento ilustrado y libro álbum enfatizando la importancia de la lectura de dos códigos: texto e imagen. Por otro lado, se aborda la importancia del Modelo Situacional propuesto por Kintsch, la macro-estructura y micro-estructura de los textos, de las estrategias de comprensión de lectura, de la lectura en voz alta y de la escritura creativa.

Los libros como puentes a las emociones inicia con una encuesta que te permitirá reflexionar sobre diferentes temas que abren puentes de comunicación y exploración de emociones tanto para grandes como para chicos. Entre ellos se hablará de: álbumes ilustrados y emociones, cambiar perspectivas, tertulias dialógicas, atención plena o mindfulness y comunicación asertiva. Por otro lado, se exploran las características de los libros infantiles en sus diferentes épocas. Este texto también habla de la estructura de los cuentos de antes y de ahora.

Para los lectores, hay pocas experiencias tan asombrosas e inolvidables como la primera lectura de Kafka. No importa lo que uno haya leído antes: cruzarse con una de sus novelas o cuentos, con un fragmento de sus diarios, es aprender a leer de un modo nuevo.