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Emprender o no emprender, esa es la cuestión. ¿Quie es poner un negocio? O sea que, ¿vas a ser un emprendedor? ¿Estás seguro? No, no queremos hacerte dudar, al contrario, queremos ayudarte a lograr el éxito. Pero ¿Cómo hablarle a los mexicanos, incluso a los latinos, del modo de hacer negocios de este lado del mundo? Estamos invadidos de información generada por los países de primer mundo, llenos de lo que se llaman Best Practices, de esas que no existen por acá.

En un pueblo de mala muerte de Texas, en el Profundo Sur y en plena Gran Depresión, Dove Linkhorn crece inocente y desamparado sin siquiera asistir a la escuela porque su padre, que se gana la vida limpiando pozos negros y lanzando desquiciadas prédicas antipapistas a sus paisanos, la considera una pérdida de tiempo y una influencia corruptora.

Soledad.Piedra es un volumen compuesto por cinco relatos. Tres de los cuentos se desarrollan en diferentes puntos geográficos, uno en el ex DF, otro en Barcelona y uno más en Pahuatlán, ciudades que son parte de las cartografías literarias recurrentes del autor y con las que ha tenido una relación profunda, aunque no necesariamente buena, sino intensa, ruda, violenta, descarnada a veces y en otras, amorosa.

La conspiración shandy, o sociedad secreta de los portátiles, fue fundada en 1924 en la desembocadura del río Níger y quedó disuelta tres años después, tras un espectacular escándalo, en Sevilla. Formaron parte de la conjetura shandy, entre otros, Duchamp, Scott Fitzgerald, Walter Benjamin, César Vallejo, Rita Malú, Valery Larbaud, García Lorca, Pola Negri, Berta Bocado, Alberto Savinio y Georgia O'Keefe.

Un hombre deja sin comer durante tres días a la perra de su hermano, por miedo a que ella lo ataque, mientras el hermano prodiga cuidados a su madre moribunda; otro hombre finge interesarse en comprar el departamento donde pasó su infancia, cuando en realidad sólo quiere imponer a los inquilinos que lo ocupan la misma disposición de los muebles de cuando su familia vivía ahí; una apacible carrera rutinaria en una pista de atletismo degenera en una batalla tribal por la supervivencia, al descomponerse el alumbrado.

En una pequeña ciudad de España llamada Villalgancio, un partido político y su alcalde Acilso Arrambla llevan más de treinta años ejerciendo el caciquismo y la corrupción. Se les notifica la llegada de un inspector del gobierno, que debe analizar sus cuentas. El alcalde se propone comprar la voluntad del inspector con todo tipo de agasajos, homenajes, regalos y dinero, una manera de proceder recurrente de la que participa toda la sociedad.

Daemus Alaric and his band of dauntless companions venture to the Devil’s Horn, the mystical home of Trillias, the mercurial Ancient of Sport and Tests. Their quest—to recover the lost Tome of Enlightenment, cast into the bowels of the mysterious Laurentian Labyrinth by the fallen Keeper, Graytorris the Mad. Will they survive the god’s gambit?

«Controla tus pensamientos». «El dolor es temporal». «La felicidad depende de ti». ¿Te suenan? En los últimos años, la gente se ha tirado en plancha sobre las enseñanzas de los grandes pensadores del estoicismo. Pero ¿seguro que Marco Aurelio es oro puro para el arte de vivir? Decidido a arrojar una perspectiva más rebelde, sin paños calientes, Victor Amat reinventa las Meditaciones en clave punk con su propio libro de aforismos al estilo de los antiguos.

Un joven matrimonio decide comprar un viejo molino y arreglarlo con la intención de pasar en él sus vacaciones y el tiempo de descanso, pero pronto su paz se verá perturbada por la llegada de la hermana de la mujer que aparece en el molino con su hijo y su nuevo compañero sentimental para pasar allí unos días. Esta visita creará una serie de tensiones que acabarán desencadenando un suceso inesperado. Una historia llena de fuerza y misterio en la que la presencia del agua juega un papel que acabará por determinar las vidas de los personajes.

After the settling dust of the demon uprising and two years of peace, rumblings from the Menzoberranzan drow have Jarlaxle nervous. Worried his allies may be pulled into a Civil War between the great Houses, he is eager to ensure Zaknafein is armed with weapons befitting his skill, including one in particular. A powerful artifact, the sword known as “Cutter” has started wars, corrupted its users, and spilled the blood of many, many people. Nonetheless - or maybe because of that - the rogue Jarlaxle and a small group will go on an expedition looking for the weapon’s last wielder.

R. A. Salvatore’s New York Times best-selling saga continues as dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden returns to Gauntlgrym with old friends by his side once again, as they seek to rescue Bruenor’s loyal shield dwarf-turned-vampire. But not only do Drizzt and his allies face a perilous journey through the Underdark and the dangers of the undead that lie within, but they must cross through a colony of drow, who would like nothing better than to see Drizzt Do’Urden dead.

With the last of his trusted companions having fallen, Drizzt is alone - and free - for the first time in almost a hundred years. Guilt mingles with relief, leaving Drizzt uniquely vulnerable to the persuasions of his newest companion: Dahlia, a darkly alluring elf and the only other member of their party to survive the cataclysm at Mount Hotenow. But traveling with Dahlia is challenging in more ways than one.

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design", there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection.

In the evolving world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to months of cloud-cloaked darkness, and war rages under that oppressive sky. The orcs have broken a hard-fought treaty that's held, however tentatively, for a hundred years, and the time to settle old scores has devolved into an all-out brawl for control of the ancient realms of the North.

Split between time and two worlds, Zaknafein had always been conflicted. That inner turmoil was magnified by his inferior position as a male dark elf in the matriarchal drow society. Only his status as one of the greatest warriors - as well as his friendship with the mercenary Jarlaxle - kept him sane. When he finally perished, he was content knowing he left behind a legacy as substantial as his son, Drizzt. Except...someone isn’t ready for Zaknafein to be dead. And now he’s back, hundreds of years later, in a world he doesn’t recognize.

R. A. Salvatore reveals the Underdark anew through the eyes of of this unlikely pair - offering a fresh take on the intrigue and opportunities to be found in the shadows, and providing a fascinating prelude to the journeys that have shaped the modern-day Forgotten Realms. There, a Zaknafein and Drizzt are joined together in a series of trials that parallel those of centuries long past, even though their paths no longer seem to be aligned.

College is a time of excitement, exuberance, and triumph, as well as one of anxiety, doubt, and confusion. The stories on this audio program express all these emotions. If you are standing at the brink of adulthood, ready to take the world by storm on minute, ready to run away screaming the next, you will undoubtedly find comfort and motivation in these Chicken Soup tales. They cover everything from homesickness and struggles to maintain GPAs to finding love and a purpose in life.

Human assassin Artemis Entreri and his dark elf companion Jarlaxle have come to the demon-haunted wastelands of the frozen north at the request of their dragon patron. It doesn’t take long for them to find themselves caught in the middle of a struggle between powerful forces that would like nothing more than to see them both dead...or worse. But Entreri and Jarlaxle aren’t just any wandering sellswords, and the ancient evils and bitter blood-feuds of the wild Bloodstone Lands may have finally met their match.

In order to protect his con artist girlfriend from the F.B.I., Noah goes to grievance therapy to keep up the ruse of her death.

On the heels of the terrorist attacks on the planet Nova's capital, the Special Projects Team finds itself targeted by the ambitious new head of the Commonwealth Intelligence Directorate, Aidan Kester. When Kovalic and General Adaj are arrested on charges of treason, Tapper, Brody, Sayers, and Taylor are forced to go on the run.