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Bestseller No. 1 New York Times ¡Más de 15 millones de ejemplares vendidos!A 3 décadas de que Stephen Covey nos revelara los 7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva, James Clear nos enseña la forma más sencilla y práctica de incorporar los mejores hábitos a nuestra vida diaria.Hábitos Atómicos parte de una simple pero poderosa pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos vivir mejor? Sabemos que unos buenos hábitos nos permiten mejorar significativamente nuestra vida, pero con frecuencia nos desviamos del camino: dejamos de hacer ejercicio, comemos mal, dormimos poco, despilfarramos. ¿Por qué es tan fácil caer en los malos hábitos y tan complicado seguir los buenos? James Clear nos brinda fantásticas ideas basadas en investigaciones científicas, que le permiten revelarnos cómo podemos transformar pequeños hábitos cotidianos para cambiar nuestra vida y mejorarla.Esta guía pone al descubierto las fuerzas ocultas que moldean nuestro comportamiento —desde nuestra mentalidad, pasando por el ambiente y hasta la genética— y nos demuestra cómo aplicar cada cambio a nuestra vida y a nuestro trabajo. Después de leer este libro, tendrás un método sencillo para desarrollar un sistema eficaz que te conducirá al éxito.Aprende cómo…• Darte tiempo para desarrollar nuevos hábitos• Superar la falta de motivación y de fuerza de voluntad• Diseñar un ambiente para que el éxito sea fácil de alcanzar• Regresar al buen camino cuando te hayas desviado un pocoENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 15 million copies sold!Tiny Changes, Remarkable ResultsNo matter your goals,Atomic Habitsoffers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.Learn how to:Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy) Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower Design your environment to make success easier Get back on track when you fall off course ...and much more.Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

In a dual autobiography and primer on writing, the author of The Stand, The Shining, and other great books shares the story of his life, the creation of his first novel, and his insights into the craft of writing, offering a breezy, humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer. (Literature)

Ganador del Goodreads Choice Awards 2021 de no ficciónUna ingeniosa, emocionante y personal colección de textos del aclamado autor de Bajo la misma estrella y Buscando a Alaska.El Antropoceno es la era geológica actual, una época caracterizada por el profundo impacto que el ser humano está teniendo sobre el planeta. Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extraño, lo importante y lo sorprendente, John Green reúne en esta extraordinaria colección de textos distintas facetas de nuestro presente y las puntúa en una particular escala del uno al cinco.Deteniendo su mirada en temas tan variados como el teclado QWERTY, internet, Super Mario Kart, los susurros, los ositos de peluche o las puestas de sol, sus originales y muy personales hallazgos abren los horizontes de la imaginación mientras nos hablan de las maravillas de lo cotidiano.El excepcional don de John Green para contar historias y su inagotable curiosidad brillan en estos ensayos llenos de belleza, humor y empatía que ponen a la humanidad frente al espejo de sus contradicciones y son, a la vez, una celebración del amor por nuestro mundo.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWinner of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2021 on NonfictionA deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green.The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale—from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.Funny, complex, and rich with detail, the reviews chart the contradictions of contemporary humanity. As a species, we are both far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough, a paradox that came into sharp focus as we faced a global pandemic that both separated us and bound us together.John Green’s gift for storytelling shines throughout this masterful collection. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a open-hearted exploration of the paths we forge and an unironic celebration of falling in love with the world.

Después de impresionar a más de once millones de lectores con la estremecedora historia de El niño con el pijama de rayas, John Boyne regresa en Todas las piezas rotas al mundo de su novela más famosa para contar qué ocurrió con la familia del pequeño Bruno al final de la guerra. En esta ocasión, a través del viaje de Gretel, su hermana mayor, desde el París de 1946 hasta el Londres de hoy, en busca de un lugar en el que confiar el peso de su terrible pasado. A punto de cumplir noventa y dos años, Gretel Fernsby ha vivido durante décadas en un piso de Winterville Court, un lujoso bloque de apartamentos con vistas a Hyde Park, donde lleva una vida desahogada y tranquila pese a una historia oscura e inquietante que no deja de atormentarla No habla con nadie de su huida de la Alemania nazi hace más de siete décadas en compañía de su madre, ni de la trágica desaparición de su hermano, ni mucho menos de su padre, comandante de uno de los campos de concentración más notorios del Reich. Cuando el productor de cine Alex Darcy-Witt, un hombre dominante y abusivo, y su esposa Madelyn se mudan al piso de abajo, Gretel acaba haciéndose amiga de Henry, el hijo de nueve años de la pareja, aunque su presencia le hace recordar antiguos sucesos que preferiría haber olvidado. «¿Hasta qué punto la culpa de un padre monstruoso alcanza a sus hijos? La culpa y la complicidad tienen muchas caras. John Boyne es un maestro de la ficción histórica: es imposible estar preparado para la magnitud y el impacto emocional de esta novela.» John Irving ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel." --John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp "Exceptional, layered and compelling...This book moves like a freight train." --Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of In Love From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn't talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. Then, a new family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a disturbing, violent argument between Henry's beautiful mother and his arrogant father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence. All The Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman whose life has been haunted by the past. Now, Gretel faces a similar crossroads to one she encountered long ago. Back then, she denied her own complicity, but now, faced with a chance to interrogate her guilt, grief and remorse, she can choose to save a young boy. If she does, she will be forced to reveal the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. This time, she can make a different choice than before--whatever the cost to herself....

There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t.  And the secret phrase is this:              NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional.  From Chapter Four: “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with ev­ery sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?  

Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way.When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for love in all the wrong places, working on her relationship with God, battling cancer and making peace with a difficult childhood. It became one of the most popular columns ever published in the newspaper, and since then the 50 lessons have been emailed to hundreds of thousands of people.Brett now takes the 50 lessons and expounds on them in essays that are deeply personal. From "Don't take yourself too seriously-Nobody else does" to "Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift," these lessons will strike a chord with anyone who has ever gone through tough times--and haven't we all?

That year, I was twenty-two years old, and at the same time, I was about to meet the elusive Paul Darrigrand and flirt dangerously with death, though these two events had no connection to each other. On the one hand, pleasure and carefreeness; on the other, suffering and anguish. The exultant body and the bruised body. Today I wonder if, deep down, everything was connected.

UN RELATO SORPRENDENTE Y NECESARIO SOBRE LA HISTORIA MÉDICA DE LAS MUJERES. INNOVADORA Y TREMENDAMENTE ENTRETENIDA, ES A LA VEZ UNA NARRACIÓN COLECTIVA SOBRE LOS CUERPOS DE LAS MUJERES Y UNA LLAMADA A LA ACCIÓN PARA UNA NUEVA CONVERSACIÓN EN TORNO A LA SALUD FEMENINA. Desde los inicios, la medicina ha tratado los cuerpos de las mujeres como objetos con los que experimentar sin límites: los ha examinado e ignorado, idealizado y sexualizado, avergonzado, subyugado, mutilado y descartado. Y ellas han permanecido sin voz. Se ha impuesto un relato desde la perspectiva de los hombres que no tenía en cuenta el sufrimiento, el dolor, las voces, los pensamientos, los miedos y preocupaciones de las mujeres. A pesar de los avances, aún hoy sobrevive la idea de que los cuerpos femeninos son versiones defectuosas del ideal masculino y persiste el estigma social generalizado que moldea las relaciones de ellas con su propio cuerpo. Ahora la doctora Elizabeth Comen, oncóloga del Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center e historiadora de la medicina, recoge los principales descubrimientos publicados y los entremezcla con su propia experiencia tratando a miles de mujeres para enmendar este error histórico. En un repaso a través de los once sistemas de órganos de nuestro cuerpo, la doctora Comen comparte historias únicas e inéditas que permiten empoderar a las mujeres, comprender su cuerpo y abogar por una atención sanitaria que priorice la salud y la felicidad de todas las generaciones venideras. No seas exagerada está escrito con humor, sabiduría y un profundo conocimiento científico y cultural. Reveladora, a veces exasperante, pero siempre cautivadora, esta memoria compartida de la historia médica de las mujeres es una contribución esencial para comprender a la mitad de la población. «Una investigación meticulosa y con una prosa lúcida que fascina e indigna a partes iguales.» Publishers Weekly