Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is
devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual
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Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very clear how having a baby so young interrupted her life....more
Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....
Roger Penrose profesor de la Universidad de Oxford y autor de obras como La nueva mente del emperador o El camino de la realidad se enfrenta en Las sombras de la mente la ambiciosa tarea de llegar a una comprension cientifica de la mente humana que en su opinion no puede reducirse a los esquemas simplistas de quienes sostienen que la mentalidad con...more
Jamie DeBroux’s boss has called a special meeting for all “key personnel” at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August. When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, “We’re a cover for a branch of the intelligence community. And we’re being shut down.” Jamie’s bos...more