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  • AN ASTRONAUT'S GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH
    AN ASTRONAUT'S GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH
    CHRIS HADFIELD
    Hadfield is a genius, a man of science and technology and no first-timer to the universe."-New York Post Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to t...
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    Q. 170

  • POR AMOR A LA VERDAD
    POR AMOR A LA VERDAD
    JOSE MARIA GIRONELLA
    En su obra póstuma, el autor de Los cipreses creen en Dios, condensa la experiencia y la sabiduría atesoradas a lo largo de su vida para ofrecernos una visión del mundo rica y enérgica. Por amor a la verdad es un recorrido personal por las grandes cuestiones como la belleza, la sexualidad, la immortalidad o el poder. ...
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    Q. 220

  • ISADORA DUNCAN Y SERGUEI YESENIN
    ISADORA DUNCAN Y SERGUEI YESENIN
    CAROLA STERN
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    Q. 150

  • SI ESTO ES UN HOMBRE
    SI ESTO ES UN HOMBRE
    PRIMO LEVI
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    Q. 70

  • DESCALZO SOBRE LA TIERRA ROJA
    DESCALZO SOBRE LA TIERRA ROJA
    FRANCESC ESCRIBANO
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    Q. 70

  • BEETHOVEN: ANGUISH AND TRIUMPH
    BEETHOVEN: ANGUISH AND TRIUMPH
    JAN SWAFFORD
    The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives. ...
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    Q. 400

  • AN EINSTEIN ENCYCLOPEDIA
    AN EINSTEIN ENCYCLOPEDIA
    ALICE CALAPRICE
    This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this authoritative and accessible reference features more than one hundred entries and is divided in...
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    Q. 400

  • NOTORIOUS RBG
    NOTORIOUS RBG
    KNIZHNIK, SHANA / CARMON, IRIN
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe authors make this unassuming, most studious woman come pulsing to life. . . . Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously. . . . That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to [its] storytelling and panache. Jennifer Senior, New York TimesSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame she has only...
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    Q. 200

  • TENÍA QUE SOBREVIVIR (I HAD TO SURVIVE SPANISH EDITION)
    TENÍA QUE SOBREVIVIR (I HAD TO SURVIVE SPANISH EDITION)
    CANESSA, ROBERTO
    On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the “Old Christians” rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardi...
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    Q. 160

  • 438 DAYS
    438 DAYS
    FRANKLIN, JONATHAN
    “The best survival book in a decade” (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing e...
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    Q. 260

  • MY FIGHT / YOUR FIGHT
    MY FIGHT / YOUR FIGHT
    ROUSEY, RONDA
    “The fight is yours to win.”In this inspiring and moving book, Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and Hollywood star charts her difficult path to glory. Marked by her signature charm, barbed wit, and undeniable power, Rousey’s account of the toughest fights of her life—in and outside the Octagon—reveals the painful loss of h...
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    Q. 280

  • WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
    WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
    KALANITHI, PAUL
    At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi?s transforma...
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    Q. 270

  • CAN I SAY: LIVING LARGE, CHEATING DEATH, AND DRUMS, DRUMS, DRUMS
    CAN I SAY: LIVING LARGE, CHEATING DEATH, AND DRUMS, DRUMS, DRUMS
    TRAVIS BARKER
    Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood.After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the m...
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    Q. 290

  • MICHELLE OBAMA: A LIFE
    MICHELLE OBAMA: A LIFE
    PETER SLEVIN
    This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton Universi...
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    Q. 170

  • BOUGHT AND SOLD
    BOUGHT AND SOLD
    STEPHENS, MEGAN
    A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence. ...
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    Q. 100

  • GOETHE
    GOETHE
    RUDIGER SAFRANSKI
    Rüdiger Safranski, un maestro en el arte de exponer la historia de las ideas, nos acerca un Goethe casi inédito para el lector en lengua española, pues para escribir esta impresionante biografía ha recurrido a incontables fuentes primarias: cartas, diarios, epistolarios, conversaciones o semblanzas de cuantos lo conocieron y trataron. Considerado ya un clásico en su propio tiem...
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    Q. 290

  • MI VIDA EN AL QAEDA
    MI VIDA EN AL QAEDA
    MORTEN STORM
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    Q. 230

  • FOUCAULT
    FOUCAULT
    GILLES DELEUZE
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    Q. 110

  • FREUD EN SU TIEMPO Y EN EL NUESTRO
    FREUD EN SU TIEMPO Y EN EL NUESTRO
    ELISABETH ROUDINESCO
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    Q. 240

  • THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
    PAUL AUSTER
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    Q. 150

  • STEPHEN HAWKING A LIFE IN SCIENCE
    STEPHEN HAWKING A LIFE IN SCIENCE
    MICHAEL WHITE
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    Q. 230

  • JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT
    JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT
    JACK WELCH
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    Q. 210

  • THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS: SELECTED NONFICTION
    THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS: SELECTED NONFICTION
    GAIMAN, NEIL
    An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics—from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories—observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing, and distinctive style.An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagina...
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    Q. 270

  • NO DREAM IS TOO HIGH
    NO DREAM IS TOO HIGH
    KEN ABRAHAM / BUZZ ALDRIN
    Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life—both in outer space and on earth—in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation. Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of a...
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    Q. 220

  • SO SAD TODAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS
    SO SAD TODAY: PERSONAL ESSAYS
    MELISSA BRODER
    "From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular Twitter account @sosadtoday comes a darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays. Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express ...
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    Q. 160

  • BEETHOVEN
    BEETHOVEN
    EMIL LUDWIG
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    Q. 110

  • EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE
    EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIVERSE
    ISAACSON, WALTER
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    Q. 200

  • EL LEGADO DE ALLENDE
    EL LEGADO DE ALLENDE
    FIDEL CASTRO RUZ / BEATRIZ ALLENDE
    Dos tipos de experiencias se derivan del gobierno de la Unidad Popular: la dimensión nacional e internacional que alcanzó el pensamiento y la acción de Salvador Allende, y la campaña desestabilizadora que creó las condiciones para el golpe de Estado de 1973. ...
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    Q. 55

  • CORRESPONDENCIA
    CORRESPONDENCIA
    CHÉJOV, ANTÓN P.
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    Q. 240

  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    WALTER ISAACSON
    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from...
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    Q. 360