"Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling...

Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city. "El segundo libro es una nueva aventura epica. Un antiguo mal se ha desatado. Las momias se estan despertando. Nueva York esta lleno de escorpiones... Y, ahora, Alex y su mejor amigo Ren debe dirigirse a Londres, donde una lluvia de sangre esta vertiendo desde el cielo. Podran...

"Tras décadas de aprendizaje con su padre, mítico nagual mexicano y autor del clásico Los cuatro acuerdos, don Miguel Ruiz Jr. profundiza y expande los principios de la sabiduría tolteca para el lector occidental. Lo que llamamos realidad, afirma Miguel Ruiz Jr., no es sino un sistema de creencias que a lo largo de la vida hemos construido inconscientemente. Este sistema, que define nuestras convicciones y nuestras respuestas emocionales, oscurece...

"In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious...

The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with...

Traces each part of the digestive system, explaining how it works and its role in the digestive process, with an emphasis on the intestines, and discusses the effects of good and bad microbes. "El intestino, ese gran desconocido, la oveja negra entre los órganos, que quizá hasta ahora nos parecía más bien desagradable. Pero esta imagen, estimado lector, está a punto de cambiar. El sobrepeso, las depresiones y las alergias están estrechamente...

"An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration -- of building something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss...

La psicóloga Gloria Mark revela resultados sorprendentes acerca de cómo la tecnología afecta a nuestra capacidad de atención, y ofrece un nuevo enfoque para entender cómo funciona nuestro cerebro en el mundo digital. Pasamos un promedio de apenas 47 segundos con la atención puesta en una pantalla antes de desviarla a otra. Se necesitan 25 minutos para que nuestra atención vuelva a una tarea después de una interrupción. Y nos interrumpimos...