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Australia is different - a vast island continent with distances so great that the capital of Western Australia is closer to Singapore than it is to Sydney. The landscape embraces magnificent tropical rainforests and deserts the size of several European states; temperate areas that sustain a flourishing wine industry, making Australia the world's fourth largest wine exporter; and a 16,000-mile coastline of breathtaking beaches. Plus its unique fauna is testament to the country's down-underness.

El objetivo de este audiolibro es ofrecer una visión objetiva de la situación insostenible a la que hemos llegado dando a conocer al lector las causas que la han provocado y ofrecer una mirada hacia el futuro analizando algunos de los cambios que pueden implementar tanto las empresas como los consumidores para conseguir un desarrollo económico que no dañe el medio ambiente. Somos perfectamente conscientes de que es necesario un cambio ¿sabemos en qué consiste el cambio?

¿Quién es "la chica"? En Hollywood siempre representa el mismo papel: sostiene la mano del héroe mientras este corre entre las Pirámides, en busca de robots; lo molesta, o lo frustra, o sigue junto al gran hombre que se ocupa de su encantadora perdedora. Sin embargo, una "chica" así no es una persona. No es más que un complemento. Y teniendo un ideal tan deshumanizado de la mujer, ¿cómo se comportan las propias mujeres frente a los hombres? ¿Cómo se forma su idea de quiénes son y de lo que pueden llegar a ser?

El intenso y poderoso lenguaje de Gabriela Mistral queda de manifiesto en las vivenciales páginas de estos sorprendentes Cuadernos de asuntos varios de la autora: las lucideces, los ánimos, las desventuras, las alucinaciones, las verdades muchas y de siempre, ¿por qué no las fabulaciones? Con esa donosa manera de contar–“mi bendita lengua”, “mi lengua viva”–, nos revela ahora su vida desde ella misma, “echando a la hoguera cuanto es mío”.

Compilación de entrevistas y reportajes publicados en diversos medios como El Universal, Sin embargo, Variopinto entre otros. Se trata de historias de mujeres que han encontrado diversas maneras de enfrentar la violencia de género y discriminación.

 Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first nonfiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment that occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. 

When you said, “I do”, you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy. You never intended for it to be miserable. Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.”

Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age. Tracing the conflict of wills and interests among modern nations, Ben Buchanan reveals little-known details of how China, Russia, North Korea, Britain, and the United States hack one another in a relentless struggle for dominance. 

Why isn't your love life where you want it to be? Are you going to point fingers at the quality of today's men, blame the city that you live in, or come up with the defense that you don't have the energy to date? You pretend to be working on yourself, but you secretly hope and wish that Prince Charming will fall in your lap. You make the excuse that it's not you, it's the men, but there is something inside of you that knows the common denominator in all of your failed relationships was you!

Vous avez l'impression de voir de mystérieuses créatures aux chapeaux pointus partout en ce moment ? Vous ne vous trompez pas. Qu'elles protestent dans les manifestations, deviennent des stars dans les séries ou dans les pages des livres d'histoire, les sorcières sont partout. À l'occasion d'halloween et dans ce tout premier épisode du podcast de "Quoi de Meuf", Mélanie Wanga et Clémentine Gallot décryptent ensemble ce nouvel intérêt pour ces icônes féministes et subversives investies à la fois par la politique, la culture et le marketing. Un épisode qui fourmille de références de culturelles, de Charmed à Lana Del Rey.

Un bon dictionnaire n'est pas un recueil qui commence par A et finit par Z. C'est un livre d'éducation varié, commode, agréable, facile à quitter, facile à reprendre. La mythologie n'est pas morte, elle est immortelle comme la nature, qu'elle anime de son souffle vivant. Elle n'est pas seulement la religion des Grecs et des Romains, elle est la langue poétique de tous les peuples.

Se pensate che qualcosa scritto più di 2000 anni non possa essere attuale, vogliamo smentirvi. Mitici, incontro con i miti greci, è un viaggio comico tra i miti greci riletti con un occhio contemporaneo e con uno sguardo divertente su quei temi etici, filosofici e psicologici, con i quali uomini e donne di ogni epoca si sono sempre confrontati e che sono centrali ancora oggi.

In the 1960s Ram Dass was a Harvard professor who turned to Eastern religion to answer the questions troubling his generation. He shared his story in the landmark classic, Be Here Now, which instantly captured the spiritual longings of his contemporaries. In Still Here, Ram Dass once again brings understanding, common sense, and reassurance for those of us facing the final season of life.

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why, beyond the idle curiosity, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time.

When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between sexuality and creativity, she discovers, much to her own astonishment, an increasing body of scientific evidence that suggests that the vagina is not merely flesh, but an intrinsic component of the female brain - and thus has a fundamental connection to female consciousness itself.

Even if you're a morning person, the ovary's biological clock starts ticking way too early. Before that very first ovulation, your egg count is already silently slipping away. It's so unfair! But what if there were a way to turn that clock back, to "reboot" hormones to younger levels? Maybe even create new eggs? Could there be a method to reach these goals without synthetic drugs, using the same natural signals which made eggs in the first place? Ovarian Reboot plugs in to that story.

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

A menudo, nuestra sociedad desprecia el valor de las personas mayores y las relega a un segundo plano una vez finalizan su etapa productiva, como si hubieran perdido todo su interés. Sin embargo, el paso del tiempo no siempre representa una pérdida de cualidades, sino que con frecuencia sirve para hacer brillar otras, como la prudencia, el juicio y la experiencia adquiridos con los años.