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Humanity's last stand An attack by unknown aliens has devastated the Nova Fortuna colony. Its long-term survival seems impossible. But the colonists aren't going down without a fight. Ethan must prepare the Gens for their final battle. Geneticist Cariad must decide whether to reactivate the sinister Guardians to aid in the colony's defense. Earth is lost. The new world settlers are without hope. When the moment to decide humanity's fate arrives, will they be ready? The Scythian Crisis is book three in the compelling, provocative space colonization series, Space Colony One. Keywords: genetic engineering fiction genes, first Contact war, thriller & suspense action fiction, technothriller techno thriller, genocide, rescue mission, science fiction series, thriller series, battle, internment, alien predator, star book, sifi books, building empire, syfy, space opera books, alien planet survival, galaxy's edge, space warfare survivor, alien world, survive in space.
Humanity’s first deep space colony Humanity’s last hope Treachery and sabotage have dogged the early days of the Nova Fortuna colonization project, and worse problems lie in wait. The data the colonists received about their planet was wrong. No one knows what predatory life forms threaten the colonists. Ethan makes it his job to find out. At the same time, geneticist Cariad tries to root out any remaining saboteurs while also working to rebuild the colonists’ gene pool. Cariad and Ethan must secure the colony’s safety. If they don't the last hope for humanity will be gone. The Fila Epiphany is book two in the compelling, provocative space colonization series, Space Colony One. Keywords: genetic engineering fiction genes, first contact war, thriller & suspense action fiction, technothriller techno thriller, genocide, rescue mission, science fiction series, thriller series, battle, internment, alien predator, star book, sifi books, building empire, syfy, space opera books, alien planet survival, galaxy's edge, space warfare survivor, alien world, survive in space.
Novela corta y rápida. Un special corps descubre que en un planeta se está armando una poderosa nave de guerra y recibe la misión de detener el problema antes de que estalle.
Facing the enemy at the gates All her life Cariad had one dream: to participate in humanity’s colonization of deep space. After topping her field as a geneticist, and then spending 184 years in cryonic suspension, she’s achieved her goal. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators come out at night, ready to feast on the new arrivals, and saboteurs have stowed away aboard the ship, determined to destroy the new colony. To defeat the settlers’ enemies, Cariad must enlist the help of the disgruntled Gens, last in the line of generational colonists who lived and died on the long journey to the stars, and who hate the Woken scientists. Infighting and strife plague Cariad’s efforts. If the colony’s factions don’t pull together, the flame of hope for humanity will be snuffed out. The Concordia Deception is book one in the compelling, provocative space colonization epic adventure, Space Colony One. Keywords: space colony, space exploration, interstellar voyage, galactic empire, earth attack, post-apocalyptic, alient contact, first contact, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, AI, androids
I mean no disrespect to Mr. Blatchford in saying that our difficulty very largely lies in the fact that he, like masses of clever people nowadays, does not understand what theology is. To make mistakes in a science is one thing, to mistake its nature another. And as I read God and My Neighbour, the conviction gradually dawns on me that he thinks theology is the study of whether a lot of tales about God told in the Bible are historically demonstrable. This is as if he were trying to prove to a man that Socialism was sound Political Economy, and began to realise half-way through that the man thought that Political Economy meant the study of whether politicians were economical. Aeterna Press
One cheeseburger, with a side of armageddon. Driving his vintage Jeep down a lonely highway in the New Mexico desert, Chris, an ordinary guy with a horrible boss, makes a terrible mistake. He stops at a roadside burger shack for lunch. Disaster ensues. He barely escapes with his life. And, unknown to him, something else. Now Earth military, mercenaries, and three races of aliens are hunting him. All of them gunning for a power that will determine the fate of Earth. Along with the fate of six alien races locked in a simmering conflict that threatens to break out into all-out war. A power that could unlock incredible technological secrets of a long dead alien race. A power Chris must learn how to control. A power he must learn how to use if Earth is to survive. First, Chris must figure out who his real friends are. Right now, everyone looks like the enemy. The wild and funny first novel in the Star Ascension series.
Muy sencillos comentarios sobre las relaciones personales. Lo dejé al 50%, no es mi tema.
Ivanhoe es la historia de un cruzado que ama a su país y lucha por él; también es un relato de amor y traición; de amor a la Patria, a los hermosos paisajes que conforman las regiones de Inglaterra; a las tradiciones, ya las dos bellas e inteligentes protagonistas de esta novela, la rubia y majestuosa Rowena y la morena y sabia Rebeca. De traición a la familia; a los amigos, a la religión y a todos los valores nacionales. De estos amores y traiciones, nos cuenta Walter Scott, surge la poderosa Inglaterra, la Bella Albión y, algo más: Ivanhoe adora a una estas dos mujeres por la cual haría cualquier cosa, hasta morir...
Enjoy this military scifi series by Kurtherian Gambit co-author Natalie Grey! ** The Warlord of Ymir needs to die, and Talon Rift has sworn he'll be the one to make it happen. As commander of one of the most decorated Dragon teams in history, Talon Rift has taken down the worst humanity has to offer—slave traders, terrorists, arms traffickers, and more. But one of his quarries has always eluded him: the Warlord of Ymir, the man who marched an army of mercenaries onto a planet decades ago and has held it ever since. Taking the Warlord down with a team of 16 is a suicidal idea… But Dragons aren’t known for their good sense of self-preservation. They’re known for doing whatever it takes. And when Talon learns that the Warlord might have help from inside the Alliance government, he vows that he will stop at nothing to bring the Warlord and all of his allies to justice. ** KEYWORDS: space opera; scifi romance; science fiction; Kurtherian Gambit; Honor Harrington; David Beers; military scifi; military science fiction; space marines; epic; strong female protagonist; colonization; genetic engineering; humorous science fiction; funny science fiction; LGBTQ science fiction; galactic empire
Antologia ordenada temáticamente del libro El y yo, de Gabriela Bossis.

Excelente libro, muy enriquecedor.
Extraordinario. Llevo años leyéndolo cada Navidad. Después del Evangelio es el libro que he lído más veces, incluso por encima de Tolkien y de Chesterton, que me encantan.
Un libro lleno de creatividad e imaginación en el que palpita una intuición poética acertadísima para hablar del Nacimiento del Niño Dios.
J. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings has been beloved for generations, selling millions of copies and selling millions more tickets through its award-winning film adaptations. The immense cultural impact of this epic is undeniable, but the deeper meaning of the story often goes unnoticed. Here, Joseph Pearce, author of Bilbo’s Journey uncovers the rich—and distinctly Christian—meaning just beneath the surface of The Lord of the Rings. Make the journey with Frodo as he makes his perilous trek from the Shire to Mordor, while Pearce expertly reveals the deeper, spiritual significance. Did you know that the events of The Lord of the Rings are deeply intertwined with the Christian calendar? Or what the Ring, with its awesome and terrible power represents? How do the figures of good and evil in the story reflect those forces in our own lives? Find the answers to these questions and much more in Frodo’s Journey.
No word in our language is more misunderstood than the word "heart.' And almost no word is more important, for it refers to what is at the very center of our soul. We have mapped the outer world, in fact the whole universe, with amazing exactness . . . but we have neglected the world within. This new book by venerable Catholic thinker Peter Kreeft offers a map of that inner world, of the self. In it, he takes up the mantle of Dietrich von Hildebrand and plumbs the depths of that most misunderstood (by the world) and overlooked (by philosophers and theologians) part of the human being. In Wisdom of the Heart, Kreeft examines the two common understandings of the heart's purpose and shows how they are not at odds, but rather different (and essential) facets: Feeling and emotion: can reduce us to action without thinking, but also drives us to compassion, empathy, and gratitude Love: An act of the will, designed so that we can follow Jesus' commandment to love God and others This book, therefore, is a psychological aid to understanding the philosophy behind St. John Paul's "Theology of the Body" while exploring the three dimensions of persons: the will, the mind, and the emotions, and their three loves: the good, the true, and the beautiful. A new masterwork by one of the foremost Catholic philosophers of our time, Wisdom of the Heart is essential reading for understanding ourselves, our God, and our relationship with him.
El libro de no ficción de la década. Bestseller internacional con más de 23 millones de ejemplares vendidos. Traducido a 65 idiomas. Número 1 en la lista de The New York Times. Recomendado por Barack Obama, Bill Gates y Mark Zuckerberg. De la mano de uno de los historiadores más interesantes de la actualidad, he aquí la fascinante interpretación de Yuval Noah Harari sobre la historia de la humanidad. Bestseller nacional e internacional, este libro explora las formas en que la biología y la historia nos han definido y han mejorado nuestra comprensión de lo que significa ser «humano». Hace70.000 años al menos seis especies de humanos habitaban la Tierra. Hoy solo queda una, la nuestra: Homo Sapiens. ¿Cómo logró imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? ¿Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? ¿Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en naciones o en los derechos humanos; a confiar en el dinero, en los libros o en las leyes? ¿Cómo acabamos sometidos a la burocracia, a los horarios y al consumismo? ¿Y cómo será el mundo en los milenios venideros? En Sapiens , Yuval Noah Harari traza una breve historia de la humanidad, desde los primeros humanos que caminaron sobre la Tierra hasta los radicales y a veces devastadores avances de las tres grandes revoluciones que nuestra especie ha protagonizado: la cognitiva, la agrícola y la científica. A partir de hallazgos de disciplinas tan diversas como la biología, la show more antropología o la economía, Harari explora cómo las grandes corrientes de la historia han modelado nuestra sociedad, los animales y las plantas que nos rodean e incluso nuestras personalidades. ¿Hemos ganado en felicidad a medida que ha avanzado la historia? ¿Seremos capaces de liberar alguna vez nuestra conducta de la herencia del pasado? ¿Podemos hacer algo para influir en los siglos futuros? Audaz, ambicioso y provocador, este libro cuestiona todo lo que creíamos saber sobre el ser humano: nuestros orígenes, nuestras ideas, nuestras acciones, nuestro poder... y nuestro futuro. Reseñas: «El libro definitivo para entender quiénes somos. Provocador, lúcido, aporta un original enfoque sobre la esencia del ser humano». Julia Navarro «Interesante y provocador. Este libro nos da cierta perspectiva del poco tiempo que llevamos en la Tierra, de la corta vida de la ciencia y la agricultura, y de por qué no debemos dar nada por sentado». Barack Obama «Recomendaría este libro a cualquier persona interesada en una historia de la humanidad a la vez entretenida y desafiante [...] No se puede dejar de leer». Bill Gates «Aborda las cuestiones más importantes de la historia y del mundo moderno y, además,está escrito con un estilo vívido e inolvidable». Jared Diamond, premio Pulitzer y autor de Armas, gérmenes y acero «Un libro que invita a la reflexión». Mark Zuckerberg «Un repaso absorbente de la peripecia humana, escrito con rigor e irreverencia ilustrada». Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País «Un libro fascinante, como nuestra especie. Nos ayudará a saber de dónde venimos para decidir hacia dónde vamos. Recomiendo Sapiens casi antes que saludar. ¡Disfrútenlo!» Leonor Watling «Monumental, brillante, provocadora». Pablo Jáuregui, El Mundo «Cuenta la historia del ser humano desde su origen hasta que se convirtió en el rey de la creación». Iñaki Gabilondo show less
Es un hecho. Ser cristiano es ser un evangelizador. Cuando la Iglesia Católica nos llama a una "nueva evangelización", es simplemente un recordatorio de la misión que a ti y a mi nos ha sido encomendada. La nueva evangelización del siglo XXI está hoy dirigida no solo a los no bautizados , sino también y muy especialmente a los bautizados inmersos en la fuerte secularización actual y que están siendo descristianizados. La buena noticia es que tú puedes hacerlo y Scott Hahn te muestra como llevarlo a cabo. El objetivo de este libro es explicar en qué consiste esa misión y como realizarla. Una excelente guía para ayudarte a entender y vivir lo que significa ser católico evangelizador. "No podrás mantener tu fe sin transmitirla" Scott Hahn es profesor de Teología y Sagrada Escritura en la Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio), y ha sido nombrado por el Papa Benedicto XVI catedrático de Teología Bíblica y Proclamación Litúrgica del Saint Vincent Seminary (en Latrobe, Pennsylvania). Es autor de más de una docena de libros, incluidos: Roma, dulce hogar, donde cuenta su proceso de conversión; La cena del Cordero, y otros. Está casado y es padre de seis hijos.
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 poco
We all wish we could sharpen key management skills like writing more effective emails or proposals, focusing to-do lists on what really matters, giving more persuasive presentations, or dealing with a boss who makes you want to scream. But who has the time? The HBR Guides can help.

Interesante, hay artículos muy básicos para quien ha edtudiado PM y otros más enriquecedores. Leí unos cuantos
Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and her husband, Frank Sheed, founded in 1926. Originally published in 1942, just six years after Chesterton's untimely death, this book combines Ward's unique perspective as the author's friend and publisher with an examination of his personal correspondence and interviews with his closest friends and family. Here are Chesterton's childhood and school days, the friendship and foolery of youth, his early theological development, high spirited love letters, the variety and richness of his travel and life abroad, his lectures, his writings, and his indominable spirit. A Sheed & Ward Classic, this re-release of Ward's definitive biography is sure to delight existing "Chestertonians" and introduce a new generation to one of Catholicism's brightest lights. From the new introduction by Andrew Greeley: "This book had a decisive impact on me and on my life when I read it at the age of sixteen--and not merely because my fictional detective Blackie Ryan is an American cousin of GKC's Father Brown. Ms. Ward's biography introduced me not only to a world of literature of which I had been unaware, but to a perspective on literature and life which was enormously attractive because it confirmed many of the insights, instincts, inclinations, biases, and loves which were knocking around in my adolescent skull. I have been a Chestertonian all my life show more in part because I had been one without knowing it even before I read Ms. Ward's biography." show less
A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Gods of Risk tells the story of Bobbie Draper following the events of Caliban's War. This story will be available in the complete Expanse story collection, Memory’s Legion. HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about. The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers

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Todo sucede en un ambiente sórdido y opresivo. Se nota un mundo poscristiano vacío y con una esperanza tenue y puramente humana. Y la historia de este tomo ni siquiera es grata.
A shackled Earth, ruled by an unstoppable tyrant An exiled son, and a one-way trip across the galaxy A perfect world, their last hope for survival Vice Admiral Isaac Gallant is the heir apparent to the First Admiral, the dictator of the Confederacy of Humanity. Unwilling to let his mother’s tyranny stand, he joins the rebellion and leads his ships into war against the might of his own nation. Betrayal and failure, however, see Isaac Gallant and his allies captured. Rather than execute her only son, the First Admiral instead decides to exile them, flinging four million dissidents and rebels through a one-shot wormhole to the other end of the galaxy. There, Isaac finds himself forced to keep order and peace as they seek out a new home without becoming the very dictator he fought against—and when that new home turns out to be too perfect to be true, he and his fellow exiles must decide how hard they are prepared to fight for paradise…against the very people who built it.
Con un estilo penetrante y lúcido, Henri de Lubac traza en este libro la semblanza espiritual de tres filosofías, centradas en tres hombres decisivos para la cultura moderna: Comte, Feuerbach y Nietzsche. Las doctrinas de estos tres pensadores inspiran tres filosofías de la existencia social, política e individual, que hoy ejercen una influencia considerable sobre la vida misma. Humanismo positivista, humanismo marxista y humanismo nietzscheano son, más que un ateísmo propiamente dicho, un antiteísmo, y más concretamente, un anticristianismo, por la negación que hay en su base. Por opuestos que sean entre sí, sus mutuas implicaciones, ocultas o manifiestas, son muy grandes y tienen un fundamento común, consistente en la negación de Dios, coincidiendo también en su objetivo principal de aniquilamiento de la persona humana. A los nombres de Comte, Feuerbach y Nietzsche se añade, en el estudio de Henri de Lubac, el nombre de Dostoievski, con su imponente testimonio a favor de la fe. Dostoievski no es más que un novelista. No ofrece en modo alguno un sistema. No aporta ninguna solución a los tremendos problemas que plantea a nuestro siglo la organización de la vida social. Pero de sus obras, de la magia incomparable de su literatura, se desprende con hiriente claridad esta verdad: que si el hombre puede organizar la tierra sin Dios, sin Él no puede organizarla más que contra el hombre; que el humanismo que excluye a Dios es un humanismo inhumano. ¿No es la show more historia contemporánea la confirmación trágica de esta intuición? show less
Discover the Christian meaning in The Hobbit. In Bilbo's Journey go beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves, and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel The Hobbit. Bilbo's quest to find and slay the dragon Smaug is a riveting tale of daring and heroism, but as renowned Tolkien scholar Joseph Pearce shows, it is not simply Bilbo's journey, it is our journey too. It is the Christian journey of self-sacrifice out of love for others, and abandonment to providence and grace. In Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of The Hobbit you will relive the excitement of Tolkien's classic tale, while discovering the profound Christian meaning that makes The Hobbit a truly timeless adventure. The audiobook edition of Bilbo's Journey is read by Kevin O'Brien.
Beligerante, con una visión un tanto kantiana de la moralidad. Aunque tiene aspectos muy aprovechables para un cristiano que quiere ser combativo y coherente, tiende al voluntarismo y sobre todo a una visión sociológica y jerárquica de la religión católica. La gracias juega un papel meramente funcional como ayuda a la combatividad contra el pecado y los males sociales.

En la parte final es expresamente crítico al Vaticano II, al que llama "una de las mayores calamidades, si no la mayor, de la Historia de la Iglesia" (p. 161). Esta sola afirmación, acompañada de duras críticas a la jerarquía son bastante como para identificar su postura, por mucho que diga ser católico y romano: al único que no critica (demasiado) es al Papa pero su acidez -sin duda con sustento en algunos comentarios- es muy fuerte.