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Una sorprendente erudición y un detallado y exhaustivo conocimiento de las fuentes árabes le permiten rastrear las difusas huellas de los vikingos en la Península Ibérica, desde la invasión del año 844 hasta la presencia normanda a lo largo del siglo XI. El conjunto es una sorprendente y desconocida página de la historia hispana, tan apasionante como los mejores relatos de aventuras.<

Down on her luck, Lucy Delacourt's temp position isn't quite her dream job but it pays the bills…barely. The highlight of her day is riding the elevator in the mornings: she always manages to time it so that she sees the handsome stranger every day. He's fuel for her fantasies and way out of her league, but a girl can look, right?

Everything changes however the day the handsome stranger seduces a stunned Lucy, first in the elevator then again in the parking garage after work. Completely out of character, she yields without a fight, but she has no idea her wanton acts with a man whose name she doesn't know will start a sensual chain of events that forever change her life. Because the sexy stranger is none other than Jeremiah Hamilton, billionaire CEO of Hamilton Industries, and one taste of the hot little temp isn't near enough to satisfy his need.

The billionaire has big plans for the wayward temp, plans that have nothing to do with filing paperwork…

«No intentorecordar las cosas que ocurren en un libro. (...) Lo único que le pido a un libro es que me inspire energía y valor, que me diga que hay más vida de la que puedo abarcar, que me recuerde la urgencia de actuar.» Con estas frases de Béréníce Einberg, la joven narradora creada por Ducharme, Léolo, el personaje de Lauzon, se dispone a leer, en mitad de la noche, bajo la luz de una nevera abierta, esta maravillosa novela. La imagen final del filme es el universo imaginario de Léolo emergiendo de la página donde figura el título de la novela, sobre el que ha escrito: «e iré a apoyar mi cabeza entre dos palabras dentro de L'avalée des avalés».Al igual que las criaturas de Salinger, nuestra Bérénice es una niña prodigio, disertadora, políglota, actriz, intérprete de diversos instrumentos, bailarina, experta en montar y desmontar armas de un solo vistazo. Desgraciada, lúcida, destinada al suicidio o dispuesta a envejecer, ella misma se declarará, pasados diez años desde el arranque de la narración, «agresivamente apátrida, perdidamente sin origen. Solo siento nostalgia por un sitio. Y a ese sitio se entra por la grieta de donde salté.»De su mano y de la de su autor, atravesaremos el libro de las maravillas, saltando del relato oral a la fábula, del ars lírica al ars dramaticae y la retórica, del Libro de las Crónicas y de Ester al Calígula de Camus, pasando por los clásicos y la mitología, leyendas y hazañas de todos los tiempos y toda clase de cuentos, finamente sazonado con guiños y referencias a Céline, Descartes, La Fontaine, Flaubert, Proust y Poe, entre otros.Una novela no más erudita que divertida, no más triste que llena de amor. De exilio en exilio, de renuncia en renuncia, Bérénice Einberg perderá el último bastión de su inocencia en la guerra de Israel. Todo empieza en una isla, en mitad de un río, un puente ferroviario la cruza, la abadía donde viven parece «un cervatillo durmiendo entre las patas de un elefante».<

During the late 1970s and early 80s tension in Europe, between east and west, had grown until it appeared that war was virtually unavoidable. Soviet armies massed behind the 'Iron Curtain' that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

In the west, Allied forces, British, American, and armies from virtually all the western countries, raised the levels of their training and readiness. A senior British army officer, General Sir John Hackett, had written a book of the likely strategies of the Allied forces if a war actually took place and, shortly after its publication, he suggested to his publisher Futura that it might be interesting to produce a novel based on the Third World War but from the point of view of the soldier on the ground.

Bob Forrest-Webb, an author and ex-serviceman who had written several best-selling novels, was commissioned to write the book. As modern warfare tends to be extremely mobile, and as a worldwide event would surely include the threat of atomic weapons, it was decided that the book would mainly feature the armoured divisions already stationed in Germany facing the growing number of Soviet tanks and armoured artillery.

With the assistance of the Ministry of Defence, Forrest-Webb undertook extensive research that included visits to various armoured regiments in the UK and Germany, and a large number of interviews with veteran members of the Armoured Corps, men who had experienced actual battle conditions in their vehicles from mined D-Day beaches under heavy fire, to warfare in more recent conflicts.

It helped that Forrest-Webb's father-in-law, Bill Waterson, was an ex-Armoured Corps man with thirty years of service; including six years of war combat experience. He's still remembered at Bovington, Dorset, still an Armoured Corps base, and also home to the best tank museum in the world.

Forrest-Webb believes in realism; realism in speech, and in action. The characters in his book behave as the men in actual tanks and in actual combat behave. You can smell the oil fumes and the sweat and gun-smoke in his writing. Armour is the spearhead of the army; it has to be hard, and sharp. The book is reputed to be the best novel ever written about tank warfare and is being re-published because that's what the guys in the tanks today have requested. When first published, the colonel of one of the armoured regiments stationed in Germany gave a copy to Princess Anne when she visited their base. When read by General Sir John Hackett, he stated: "A dramatic and authentic account", and that's what 'Chieftains' is.

An omnibus of novels

An innovative ebook featuring two intertwined stories:

Magic: When good witch Brianna James uses her magic and writes a sexy, forbidden love spell on her thirty-first birthday, on the thirty-first day of October during a full moon, and conjures up on roguish, bad boy warlock, she has no idea that she'll experience a passion so deep and so intense it would forever turn her good girl days into bad girl nights. But, when that spell lands in the wrong hands, be prepared for a little mayhem…

Mayhem: When Abigail Garvey steps into Conjure, the local magic shop, all she's looking for are a few props to round out her fortune teller Halloween costume. Abby isn't looking for a love spell that turns her drop-dead gorgeous, but long-oblivious neighbor into an aggressive alpha sex machine… Sure his single-minded pursuit (and follow-through!) is the stuff her wickedest fantasies are made of, but how much of it is the real deal? And how much of it is just a little magical mayhem?

El cartesianismo hace mucho tiempo que murió. El pensamiento de Descartes, sin embargo, pervive y pervivirá mientras exista como guía de reflexión la libertad de pensar. Este principio constituye la más deliciosa fábula que el hombre pudo inventar, y eso se lo debe la humanidad, en buena parte, a Descartes y, especialmente, a estas dos obras que el lector tiene en sus manos. Leer a Descartes es uno de los mejores ejercicios para mantener vivo el más importante impulso de la filosofía moderna: una duda previa absoluta, un escepticismo como punto de partida del genuino saber. Con todo, el principal mérito del que pasa a ser el primer racionalista oficial de la historia de la filosofía, ha consistido en su matizada crítica al pensamiento dogmático. Nada, efectivamente, puede ser aceptado en virtud de una autoridad cualquiera. Este «héroe del pensamiento moderno», en palabras de Hegel, ha llevado a la filosofía por caminos apenas percibidos anteriormente, atreviéndose, por decirlo en palabras de D’Alembert, a «enseñar a las buenas cabezas a sacudirse el yugo de la escolástica, de la opinión, de la autoridad; en una palabra, de los prejuicios y de la barbarie y, con esta rebelión cuyos frutos recogemos hoy, ha hecho a la filosofía un servicio más esencial quizá que todos los que ésta debe a los ilustres sucesores de Descartes».<

During the late 1970s and early 80s tension in Europe, between east and west, had grown until it appeared that war was virtually unavoidable. Soviet armies massed behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

In the west, Allied forces, British, American, and armies from virtually all the western countries, raised the levels of their training and readiness. A senior British army officer, General Sir John Hackett, had written a book of the likely strategies of the Allied forces if a war actually took place and, shortly after its publication, he suggested to his publisher Futura that it might be interesting to produce a novel based on the Third World War but from the point of view of the soldier on the ground.

Bob Forrest-Webb, an author and ex-serviceman who had written several best-selling novels, was commissioned to write the book. As modern warfare tends to be extremely mobile, and as a worldwide event would surely include the threat of atomic weapons, it was decided that the book would mainly feature the armoured divisions already stationed in Germany facing the growing number of Soviet tanks and armoured artillery.

With the assistance of the Ministry of Defence, Forrest-Webb undertook extensive research that included visits to various armoured regiments in the UK and Germany, and a large number of interviews with veteran members of the Armoured Corps, men who had experienced actual battle conditions in their vehicles from mined D-Day beaches under heavy fire, to warfare in more recent conflicts.

It helped that Forrest-Webb’s father-in-law, Bill Waterson, was an ex-Armoured Corps man with thirty years of service; including six years of war combat experience. He’s still remembered at Bovington, Dorset, still an Armoured Corps base, and also home to the best tank museum in the world.

Forrest-Webb believes in realism; realism in speech, and in action. The characters in his book behave as the men in actual tanks and in actual combat behave. You can smell the oil fumes and the sweat and gun-smoke in his writing. Armour is the spearhead of the army; it has to be hard, and sharp. The book is reputed to be the best novel ever written about tank warfare and is being re-published because that’s what the guys in the tanks today have requested. When first published, the colonel of one of the armoured regiments stationed in Germany gave a copy to Princess Anne when she visited their base. When read by General Sir John Hackett, he stated: “A dramatic and authentic account”, and that’s what ‘Chieftains’ is.

Fruto de toda una biografía que ha tenido el pensamiento como principio, Las pasiones del alma (1649) es la última obra publicada por Descartes en vida y puede considerarse como su testamento filosófico. Escrita a instancias de la princesa Isabel de Bohemia, quien pedía reiteradamente a su «instructor» aclaraciones sobre la relación en el ser humano entre dos sustancias tan distintas como el alma y el cuerpo, en ella encontramos una serie de reflexiones que profundizan, precisan o rectifican algunas de las tesis que Descartes había sostenido con anterioridad.La obra, elaborada con la intención de «explicar las pasiones —en palabras del autor— no como orador, ni tampoco como filósofo moral, sino solamente como físico», consta de tres partes, «de las que la primera tratará de las pasiones en general, y en ocasiones de la naturaleza del alma, etc.; la segunda, de las seis pasiones primitivas, y la tercera, de todas las demás». De hecho, Descartes inicia su explicación sobre las pasiones por una descripción de la fisiología humana, para acabarla con una reflexión acerca de la moral, tras dar cuenta de las mismas como resultado de la unión del alma y el cuerpo. Fisiología, interacción alma-cuerpo y moral son los temas que articulan el contenido de este libro.<

Urban paranormal fantasy featuring Gabrielle Cody:Servant. Slayer. Seducer.

Gabrielle Cody has the ability to see the demons among us as they really are-and the responsibility to destroy them. She can't allow anyone to get in her way, even the magnetic Detective Luther Cross. Sensing a malevolent presence watching and stalking her, Gaby is drawn again and again to an abandoned hospital surrounded by an aura of sickness and suffering-and unimaginable evil.

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin – half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned – two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk…<