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  • THE INFERNAL LIBRARY: ON DICTATORS, THE BOOKS THEY WROTE, AND OTHER CATASTROPHES OF LITERACY
    THE INFERNAL LIBRARY: ON DICTATORS, THE BOOKS THEY WROTE, AND OTHER CATASTROPHES OF LITERACY
    DANIEL KALDER
    "A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."?The Washington PostA darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worseSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators...
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  • THE MAN WHO SOLD AMERICA
    THE MAN WHO SOLD AMERICA
    JOY-ANN REID
    Is Donald Trump running the "longest con" in U.S. history? How did we get here? What will be left of America when he leaves office?Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country's founding principles. Now in office, he's put up a "for sale" sign--on the prestige of the presidency, on America's global stature, and on our national identity. ...
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    Q. 285

  • MAESTRÍA
    MAESTRÍA
    ROBERT GREENE
    El secreto de la maestría está en tu interior. Sólo debes aprender a desatarlo. Al paso de los siglos, la humanidad ha levantado una barrera en torno a la idea de maestría. La ha llamado "genio" y la ha creído inaccesible. La ha visto como resultado de privilegios sociales, del talento innato de cada individuo o de la alineación correcta de las estrellas. Pero esa barrera es im...
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    Q. 340

  • THE EFFECTIVE HIRING MANAGER
    THE EFFECTIVE HIRING MANAGER
    MARK HORTSMAN
    Essential hiring and team-building lessons from the #1 Podcaster in the worldThe Effective Hiring Manager offers an essential guide for managers, team leaders, and HR professionals in organizations large or small. The author’s step-by-step approach makes the strategies easy to implement and help to ensure ongoing success.Hiring effectively is the single greatest long-term contr...
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  • OVER THE TOP
    OVER THE TOP
    JONATHAN VAN NESS
    In this revelatory, raw, and rambunctious memoir, the author shares never-before-told secrets and reveals sides of himself that the public has never seen. His fans may think they know the man behind the stiletto heels, the crop tops, and the iconic sayings, but there's much more to him than meets the Queer Eye. ...
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  • THE NARROW CORRIDOR
    THE NARROW CORRIDOR
    DARON ACEMOGLU / JAMES A. ROBINSON
    From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others—and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats.In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued that countries rise and fall ba...
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  • EL SER NEOLIBERAL
    EL SER NEOLIBERAL
    BERENGUER, ENRIC (COORD.) / LAVAL, CHRISTIAN Y DARDOT, PIERRE (AUTORES)
    Un libro brú­ju­la re­co­men­da­do para quie­nes bus­can orien­tar­se en un mundo com­ple­jo donde las ins­ti­tu­cio­nes apa­ren­te­men­te in­to­ca­bles de la de­mo­cra­cia oc­ci­den­tal han de­mos­tra­do ser frá­gi­les, so­me­ti­das a fuer­zas su­pe­rio­res y tal vez poco trans­pa­ren­tes.Un mundo en el que la de­fi­ni­ción misma del su­je­to, de lo po­lí­ti­co y de lo eco­nó­...
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  • TIEMPOS PRESENTES
    TIEMPOS PRESENTES
    ARENDT, HANNAH
    La tra­ge­dia de la emi­gra­ción, el in­ter­ven­cio­nis­mo mi­li­tar de Es­ta­dos Uni­dos o el fu­tu­ro de la Unión Eu­ro­pea son al­gu­nos de los temas que Han­nah Arendt plan­tea con asom­bro­sa cla­ri­vi­den­cia en este libro. Los tex­tos, es­cri­tos para la pren­sa entre 1943 y 1975, son tomas de po­si­ción in­me­dia­tas ante acon­te­ci­mien­tos po­lí­ti­cos en Nor­te­amé­r...
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    Q. 230

  • COMPRENDER LA DEMOCRACIA
    COMPRENDER LA DEMOCRACIA
    INNERARITY, DANIEL
    La democracia sólo es posible gracias a un aumento de la complejidad de la sociedad, pero hoy en día esa misma complejidad parece distanciarnos de la propia democracia. Entonces ¿cómo podemos conseguir una política que nos resulte más comprensible? Hay un claro desajuste entre lo que una democracia nos presupone a los ciudadanos y nuestra capacidad para cumplir con esas exigenc...
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  • COMBATIR LA CORRUPCIÓN
    COMBATIR LA CORRUPCIÓN
    VILLORIA MENDIETA, MANUEL
    La corrupción se ha convertido en uno de los problemas más importantes en todo el planeta. Afecta al crecimiento económico, genera desigualdad, deslegitima instituciones públicas. Pero aun así es un fenómeno mal conocido por la ciudadanía, ...
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  • CULTURA, IDENTIDAD Y POLÍTICA
    CULTURA, IDENTIDAD Y POLÍTICA
    ERNEST GELLNER
    Las agitadas relaciones entre estado, sociedad civil e identidad cultural son los temas principales de esta exploración de la realidad sociocultural del presente. En vista de los horrores de los que hemos sido capaces los seres humanos en los dos siglos pasados, Ernest Gellner expresa en estos ensayos su preocupación por la legitimidad, el alcance y los riesgos de nuestras opci...
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    Q. 205

  • THINGS WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT WHEN I WAS A GIRL: A MEMOIR
    THINGS WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT WHEN I WAS A GIRL: A MEMOIR
    VANASCO, JEANNIE
    A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Time, NYLON, Bustle, Pacific Standard, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune and more!Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her.When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie deci...
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    Q. 265

  • ENERGÍA PARA FUTUROS PRESIDENTES
    ENERGÍA PARA FUTUROS PRESIDENTES
    RICHARD MULLER
    Nuestro futuro presidente debe comprender la energía: qué es, qué opciones enfrenta hoy la humanidad para conseguirla, cuál es la eficiencia de cada una, cuáles son las consecuencias ambientales de esas alternativas, qué industrias las explotan. Si por un momento dejamos de lado la política y consideramos la energía de manera objetiva, llegaremos a unas conclusiones que a menud...
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    Q. 170

  • BORDER WARS
    BORDER WARS
    JULIE HIRSCHFELD / MICHAEL D. SHEAR
    Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide an inside account with never-before-told stories of the defining issue of Donald Trump's presidency: his steadfast opposition to immigration to the US.As his campaign rhetoric in the 2018 midterms demonstrated, no issue matters more to Donald Trump than immigration. And no issue-with the possible exception of his opposition t...
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    Q. 185

  • GOLIATH
    GOLIATH
    MATT STOLLER
    A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party-while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy.Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated fo...
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    Q. 185

  • THE FUTURE IS FASTER THAN YOU THINK
    THE FUTURE IS FASTER THAN YOU THINK
    PETER H. DIAMANDIS / KOTLER, STEVEN
    From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allo...
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    Q. 180

  • UPSTREAM
    UPSTREAM
    DAN HEATH
    New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers.So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix th...
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  • NO FILTER
    NO FILTER
    SARAH FRIER
    No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram takes you behind-the-scenes of how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade. Award-winning technology reporter Sarah Frier draws upon deep sources and unprecedented exclusive access to explain how Instagram's founders overcame skeptics, marrying art and technology, to hook the public on v...
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    Q. 190

  • INTENTIONAL INTEGRITY: HOW SMART COMPANIES CAN LEAD AN ETHICAL REVOLUTION
    INTENTIONAL INTEGRITY: HOW SMART COMPANIES CAN LEAD AN ETHICAL REVOLUTION
    ROBERT CHESNUT
    Defining integrity is difficult. Once understood as "telling the truth and keeping your word", it was about following not just the letter but the spirit of the law. But in a moment when workplaces are becoming more diverse, global, and connected, silence about integrity creates ambiguities about right and wrong that make everyone uncertain, opening the door for the minority of ...
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  • WHAT YOU DO IS WHO YOU ARE
    WHAT YOU DO IS WHO YOU ARE
    BEN HOROWITZ
    Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how peop...
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  • HOMEWRECKERS
    HOMEWRECKERS
    AARON GLANTZ
    Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy,” he said. But our future president wasn’t alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes—their profiteering made even easier because, as p...
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  • THE HEART
    THE HEART
    MARC PETITJEAN
    This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene. In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of a...
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  • MACHIAVELLI: THE ART OF TEACHING PEOPLE WHAT TO FEAR
    MACHIAVELLI: THE ART OF TEACHING PEOPLE WHAT TO FEAR
    BOUCHERON, PATRICK / WOOD, WILLARD
    In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time.Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in...
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  • THE SIGNS WERE THERE
    THE SIGNS WERE THERE
    TIM STEER
    When companies suffer a dramatic, even catastrophic drop in their share price, it is the investors who lose their shirts and employees their jobs. But often, a company's published accounts offer clues to impending disaster, providing you know where to look.Through the forensic examination of more than 20 recent stock market disasters, Tim Steer reveals how companies hide or dis...
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  • UNORTHODOX
    UNORTHODOX
    DEBORAH FELDMAN
    Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what sh...
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  • JOY AT WORK
    JOY AT WORK
    KONDO,MARIE
    Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up) extends her tidying empire to the workplace with this upbeat collaboration with organizational psychologist Sonenshein (Stretch). The authors contend that tidying one’s workspace is “an epic voyage of self-discovery” and “the first and most effective step toward realizing your vision of a joyful career.” Kondo contributes four chapt...
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  • GUÍA RÁPIDA DE LAS 33 ESTRATEGIAS DE LA GUERRA (SEGUNDA EDICIÓN)
    GUÍA RÁPIDA DE LAS 33 ESTRATEGIAS DE LA GUERRA (SEGUNDA EDICIÓN)
    GREENE, ROBERT
    En una realidad cada vez más competitiva y hostil, no basta con conocer las herramientas tradicionales de la cooperación, la comunicación y la civilidad. Como reza la paradójica sentencia, el que quiera paz deberá prepararse para la guerra. En la política, los negocios y buena parte de nuestras interacciones sociales, es el conflicto, interno y externo, el que rige la toma diar...
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  • 33 ESTRATEGIAS DE LA GUERRA, LAS (CUARTA EDICIÓN)
    33 ESTRATEGIAS DE LA GUERRA, LAS (CUARTA EDICIÓN)
    GREENE, ROBERT
    En una realidad cada vez más competitiva y hostil, no basta con conocer las herramientas tradicionales de la cooperación, la comunicación y la civilidad. Como reza la paradójica sentencia, el que quiera paz deberá prepararse para la guerra. En la política, los negocios y buena parte de nuestras interacciones sociales, es el conflicto, interno y externo, el que rige la toma diar...
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    Q. 350

  • NOT TO SCALE: HOW THE SMALL BECOMES LARGE, THE LARGE BECOMES UNTHINKABLE, AND THE UNTHINKABLE BECOMES POSSIBLE
    NOT TO SCALE: HOW THE SMALL BECOMES LARGE, THE LARGE BECOMES UNTHINKABLE, AND THE UNTHINKABLE BECOMES POSSIBLE
    JAMER HUNT
    From small decisions that paralyze us to big data that knows everything about us, Not to Scale is a thought-provoking guide to navigating the surprising complexities of a networked age when the things that are now shaping experience have no weight or size.The dictionary defines “scale” as a range of numbers, used as a system to measure or compare things. We use this concept in ...
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  • SHORTER
    SHORTER
    PAGN, ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM
    The idea of success embraced by the global economy means being always-on, never missing an opportunity, and outworking your peers. But working ever-longer hours isn't sustainable for companies or individuals. Fatigue-induced mistakes, whether in the operating room or factory line or trading floor, costs companies billions, and overwork alienates and burns out valuable workers. ...
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