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Gràcies a una conjunció efectiva entre els esportistes d'elit i els monjos zen, aquest llibre d'inspiració quotidiana proposa un conjunt complet d'eines mentals per viatjar de l'estrès a la calma.Pressió econòmica, laboral i emocional. El nostre dia a dia és una olla exprés comparable als camps de bàsquet on es juga una final a vida o mort. Aquest és el punt de partida per a un manual de zen de nova generació creat per Ferran Martínez, un mite de l'esport de casa nostra que ha triomfat com a assessor financer, consultor, conferenciant i coach. Calma, blindatge metal, concentració, entrenament invisible o pensament lateral són algunes de les eines que ofereix aquest llibre per superar el repte suprem: vèncer la batalla contra un mateix.

«Vaig néixer el 17 de juny de 1983, a les 16.37, sortit de la impremta de La Manutention a Mayenne. Format: 16,5 cm x 12,5 cm. Pes: 230 grams». Així comença la seva història l'inusual protagonista i narrador de Les desventures d'un llibre vagabund. Un llibre abocat a escriure la seva autobiografia. Llibreries, propietaris, anècdotes, biblioteques i converses nocturnes amb altres textos marquen una vida l'objectiu de la qual és «ser devorat en el millor sentit del terme». Però la mort l'espera a cada topant. Lletraferit, omple el seu relat de les obres i autors que més admira, i amb un punt de pedanteria, mira de reüll la maquinària editorial més popular i comercial.Amb Les desventures d'un llibre vagabund, Paul Desalmand ens ofereix un passeig fascinant pel món de la tinta impresa seguint les peripècies d'un llibre: autors novells, editors sense escrúpols, llibreters de raça i venedors de paper, editorials, impremtes i, a la fi, ineluctable, la trituradora gegantina on els llibres esdevenen pasta de paper.

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Andi knows being born an intersex ?Transgressor? and then choosing to stay that way can have lethal consequences. After all, surgical assignment is mandated by law. But she ain?t going to spend her life hiding from the Society, hooked on Flow, and wanking tourists just to make a few bucks. She?s a member of the Trans Liberty Riot Brigade, an underground faction of Transgressors resisting the government?s war on their illegal genitalia. But it?s not enough to tag their messages on shithouse walls and sniff down the next high. The government has found their headquarters, decimated their ranks, and they?re crushing the resistance. Though Andi might be nothing but a junktard, she embarks on a desperate dash to stay alive and send a call for help before they?re all killed?or worse, surgically assigned. Andi, together with Brigade leader Elenbar, must get beyond the communications block preventing all radio transmission, which means crossing the seaboard Wall barricading the United Free States borders. It?s designed to keep enemies out and the citizens in, but amid increasing earthquakes and deadly pursuit, Andi

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?I can?t go back. I?d rather die?I?d rather be dead.? Neil Collins is going AWOL from his National Service ? for the third time. Twice he has served time for previous desertions and been sent back, despite being hopelessly unsuited to military life. This time, terrorized by a bullying fellow soldier determined to escape himself, Neil intends to make his escape a permanent one. He heads to London, to the dreary, claustrophobic rooms where his twin sister, Nonie, and their dying grandmother live, periodically invaded by prying neighbours, a little girl who has befriended Mrs Collins, a curious social worker, and other uninvited visitors. The Fledgeling (1958) traces the single day following Neil?s desertion, and its impacts on Neil, Nonie, the tough-as-nails Mrs Collins, and others. Each of the characters comes vividly alive in Faviell?s sensitive and observant prose. At times containing all the tension of a thriller, at others a profound drama of familial turmoil, Faviell?s third and final novel is dramatic, compelling, and emotionally wrenching. This new edition features an afterword by Frances Faviell?s s

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La Guia dels vins de Catalunya 2010 analitza amb rigor i imparcialitat totes les denominacions d'origen de Catalunya a partir de tasts a cegues. És una guia pensada per facilitar la tria del millor vi en cada circumstància. S'hi analitzen i s'hi puntuen més de 1.500 referències, en unes fitxes clares i entenedores, ordenades per la puntuació, on apareixen registrades les característiques de cada vi, els maridatges recomanats i les referències als cellers. Es tracta d'un manual exhaustiu i de referència, actualitzat anualment, que no conté publicitat i que ha estat elaborat per dos reconeguts professionals del món del vi que s'atreveixen a donar la seva opinió de manera clara.Entrevista a TV3 en aquest vídeo.

A través de la història, la societat, la cultura, la religió i la mitologia, Josep Pernau ens acosta a l'Índia més actual, tangible i colpidora. En una aproximació a la diversitat i el contrast d'aquest estat, l'autor hi desmenteix els tòpics més

John Helmsman was once an established English professor and celebrated author with a family that he loved even more than his work. But when a brutal accident takes the life of his son his world falls apart. Five years after his son?s death, John has managed to alienate and distance himself from almost every person in his life. None more so than his now ex-wife and daughter due to his shameful decent into an alcohol fueled sabbatical from reality. His best friend and an empathetic cop appear to be the only ones still holding the tenuous thread keeping him from a complete emersion into darkness. When a failed attempt to attend his daughter?s sixteenth birthday blows up in his face it turns out to be the final act to push him over the edge. John decides to take the ultimate step to remove himself from the ones who love him. Shrouded in dark comedy, grief, sadness and redemption, John attempts to claw his way from six feet under and back into the light.

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Set in Baltimore, Ghana, and rural Georgia, this stunning novel unfolds as a tragic tale of love and family life. Kwame is a brilliant, nationalistic university professor, ?and Abena (Evelyn), a smart dedicated elementary school teacher. The couple leaves the U.S. and lives near Accra for a year to adopt Kofi, a little boy who becomes the center of their life back home. But after divorcing, Kwame marries Layla, his passionate grad student with a shocking secret, and a reborn Evelyn enters interracial marriage to Brian. Caught between his parents' conflicts, a teenage Kofi strives to find himself while battling the dangerous voices in his mind of African ancestors lost in the Middle Passage.