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The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

Entre tus manos tienes, querido hermano lector, un libro breve en el cual el autor se esforzó por transmitir la posición que tenía el Profeta y sus sahaba, en el capítulo más importante y a la vez más riesgoso de la práctica religiosa, el de la creencia.

José Ma de Oriol y Urquijo (1905-1985) es uno de los empresarios y políticos más destacados del siglo XX y la cabeza visible durante varias décadas de la familia Oriol. Este libro recorre sus diferentes facetas como ingeniero, académico o banquero pero, sobre todo, destaca su vertiente política y su capacidad emprendedora, ya que despuntó como defensor acérrimo de la iniciativa privada frente a la pública. Asimismo, desde la Presidencia de Hidroeléctrica Española S.A. (hoy Iberdrola) lideró las compañías eléctricas privadas en su lucha para evitar la nacionalización. Como...