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Elantris era la capital de Arelon:gigantesca, hermosa, literalmente radiante, llena de seres benevolentes que utilizaban sus poderosas habilidades mágicas en beneficio de todos. Sin embargo, cada uno de estos semidioses fue una vez una persona común y corriente hasta que fue tocado por el misterioso poder transformador del Shaod. Hace diez años, sin previo aviso, la magia fracasó. Los elantrians se volvieron criaturas sin poder, como leprosos, y el propio Elantris oscuro, sucio y desmoronado. La nueva capital de Arelon, Kae, se agacha a la sombra de Elantris. La princesa Sarene de Teod llega para un matrimonio de Estado con el príncipe heredero Raoden,con la esperanza - basándose en su correspondencia - de encontrar también el amor. Ella descubre en cambio que Raoden ha muerto y es considerada su viuda. Tanto Teod como Arelon están amenazados como los últimos holdouts restantes contra las ambiciones imperiales de los despiadados fanáticos religiosos de Fjordell. Así que Sarene decide usar su nuevo estatus para contrarrestar las maquinaciones de Hrathen,un sumo sacerdote fiordo que ha venido a Kae para convertir Arelon y reclamarlo por su emperador y su dios. Pero ni Sarene ni Hrathen sospechan de la verdad sobre el príncipe Raoden. Golpeado por la misma maldición que arruinó Elantris, Raoden fue exiliado en secreto por su padre a la ciudad oscura. Su lucha por ayudar a los miserables atrapados allí comienza una serie de eventos que traerán esperanza a Arelon,y tal vez revelar el secreto de Elantris mismo.
Tolstoy's novella blends fiction and historical fact to portray a legendary Avar chieftain who switched sides in the nineteenth-century Russo-Caucasian war. Inspired by the author's military service, Hadji Murád offers riveting views of warfare and treason, murder and vengeance, and behind-the-scenes political plotting. An uncharacteristically brief story by the creator of War and Peace, it voices Tolstoy's pacifist beliefs. This novella also provides a compelling depiction of the Caucasus, a mountainous territory between the Black Sea and the Caspian, prized for its strategic location and natural resources. Located at the crossroads of three empires - Turkey, Persia, and Russia - the region has long struggled with incursions by its neighbors and remains a troubled corner of the world to this day. Tolstoy's realistic pictures of life in a war zone raise enduringly relevant issues of life and death.
Meetings are unavoidable - but they don't have to be unproductive. This tool-packed guide will help readers transform meetings from time-sinks to springboards for effective action by learning how to: - Set smart agendas - Keep meetings on track - Handle problem behaviors and time-wasters - Motivate participants to take action.
En Equipos ideales, Lencioni cuenta la historia de Jeff Shanley, un lider desesperado por salvar la empresa de su tio restaurando el compromiso cultural con trabajo en equipo. Jeff tiene que descifrar el codigo de las virtudes que poseen los del equipo y luego construir una cultura de contratacion y desarrollo en torno a esas virtudes. Mas alla de la fabula, Lencioni presenta un marco practico y herramientas para la identificacion de acciones concretas, la contratacion y el desarrollo de personal ideal para trabajar en equipo. Tanto si eres un lider tratando de crear una cultura de trabajo en equipo, o dotarse de personal profesional en busca de contratar un equipo real, o una persona de equipo con ganas de mejorar, este libro te resultara ser tan util como convincente. / Whether youre a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to better yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling. Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley trying to save his uncle's company.
Elimina las distracciones, reduce tu lista de tareas y libérate de las interrupciones Todo el mundo tiene ciento sesenta y ocho horas a la semana, pero nunca parecen ser suficientes, ¿no es así? El trabajo consume más tiempo del que deseamos; muchos profesionales trabajan hasta setenta horas a la semana, dejando cada vez menos espacio para el descanso, el ejercicio, la familia y los amigos. Si no tenemos cuidado, podemos cambiar lo más importante por una lista de tareas triviales que crece día a día. ¿Cuál es la solución? Michael Hyatt, autor superventas de la lista del New York Times, revela en su obra Libre para enfocarte, nueve maneras comprobadas de optimizar el trabajo con el objeto de que triunfes definitivamente en el resto de las áreas de tu vida: tu salud, tus relaciones y mucho más. Hyatt, con su experiencia, te ayuda a: - Redefinir tu trabajo con el fin de que trabaje para ti - Escoger tus tareas y tus compromisos - Prescindir de lo que no es primordial - Eliminar las interrupciones y las distracciones - Fijar límites que resguarden tu enfoque y generen resultados - Aprovechar tu tiempo y tus energías para lograr una máxima productividad - Forjar el impulso para una vida exitosa La mayoría de las personas piensan que la productividad consiste en buscar o ahorrar tiempo. Pero no es así, más bien es hacer que hagas que tu tiempo trabaje para ti. Imagínate que tienes espacio y tiempo libre otra vez. No es un sueño imposible. Puedes ser libre para enfocarte, empezando desde hoy mismo.
'An overwhelming, outstanding novel!' -Irish Times Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot? This dark tale is a fitting backdrop to the brilliant characterization and sparkling dialogue which O'Brian's readers have come to expect.
'Every [Aubrey-Maturin] book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action.' -Joe Hill All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.
Stephen Maturin's days in British intelligence have gotten him into a whole mess of trouble in The Surgeon's Mate, seventh book in Patrick O'Brian's 'Aubrey-Maturin' adventure series. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attention of two privateers soon becomes menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is tense -and unexpected in its culmination. Aubrey and Maturin must endure a foundering ship, capture by the French, and a less than pleasant stay in Paris' infamous Temple Prison. Meanwhile in Paris, Diana Villiers anxiously awaits Maturin's safe return.
'Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still.' -Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command-until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Réunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains-Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity pushes his crew to the verge of mutiny.
The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. 'The best sea story I have ever read.'-Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
'A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat.' -Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
