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Una meditación singular sobre la íntima conexión entre el cuidado de los demás y el de uno mismo, sobre el valor profundo de la hospitalidad. Priya Basil explora cómo la comida, y ofrecer comida a los demás, pueden servir para expresar amor y apoyo. La autora arroja una luz distinta sobre lo que significa ser anfitrión y ser invitado. En una época donde se construyen y se cierran fronteras, Elogio de la hospitalidad es un llamamiento, tan delicado como convincente, en favor de un mundo más amable y acogedor donde en definitiva todos nos sintamos en todo lugar como en casa.

In 2014, Hague’s life was a bona fide rags-to-riches success story. After nearly twenty years of steadily climbing the corporate ladder, he had risen from living in the back of a fish-and-chips shop to becoming the CEO of one of the top hospitality providers in the world.

But when a video surfaced on Twitter of him kicking a dog in an elevator, everything changed. A mob formed on social media that spread like wildfire. Despite expressing deep regret for his actions, he was forced to resign from his job, and his family was threatened.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Christmas Family Quiz and enjoy this audiobook.

Fast hätte J. R. R. Tolkien den Ersten Weltkrieg nicht überlebt. Einzig die Tatsache, dass er 1916 am sogenannten Grabenfieber erkrankte und in der Folge nach England zurückgeschickt wurde, rettete ihm wohl das Leben. Tolkien sehnte sich nach seinen Erlebnissen im Ersten Weltkrieg wohl nach Ruhe. Als Professor für englische Philologie in Oxford lebte er zurückgezogen, verreiste selten und rauchte gerne Pfeife – wie die von ihm geschaffenen Hobbits. Tolkien liebte die nordische Mythologie.

Comment retisser les liens sociaux dans notre monde en guerre ? Loretta Napoleoni nous propose, à travers la métaphore du tricot, de penser à un futur plus uni.

Ce livre est le récit d’une rencontre avec un pays, avec la saisissante diversité géographique et humaine de la France, avec des lieux qui disent : ce que nous sommes, notre héritage, ce qui nous lie et nous relie.

The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena.

In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the infamous Haçienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city’s confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and bars, fuelled on anthemic guitar rock and swagger. Stereotypes were everywhere, while the spirit of Manchester was silently suffocating. Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the story of those who didn’t fit the typecast.

I have multiple daughters and grandchildren. I wrote and designed this book/game with them in mind. I wanted to make a game that provided safe fun and a learning experience for my friends and family members.

As the title suggests, The Big Book of Odd Facts, contains a huge list of odd and unbelievable facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from strange historical events to breakthrough scientific discoveries.

Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can't see your hand in front of your face? Jacqueline Yallop can. It was in an unfamiliar bedroom while holidaying in Yorkshire as a child, and ever since then she has been fascinated by the dark, by our efforts to capture or avoid it, by the meanings we give to it and the way our brains process it.

From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people’s lives all over the world. Featuring never-before-heard stories about Tom Brady...

1000 Random Things You Always Believed That Are Not True is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. We bust some common misconceptions such as: The tongue doesn't have different regions dedicated to different tastes. Every single taste can be sensed on every part of your tongue. Vikings did not wear helmets with horns on them.

The Giant Book of Fun Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: California would have the sixth largest GDP if it were a country. A micromort is a unit of risk measuring a one-in-a-million probability of death.

1000 Shocking Facts You Might Not Have Known is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Starbucks spends more money on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans. Walt Disney lost the ability to speak and used pen and paper to communicate before passing away. The last words he wrote on pen and paper was the famous actor "Kurt Russell".

A humorous handbook that'll teach you how to seize power and keep it, from Survivor Australia's most cunning mastermind, King George. This motivational guidebook will teach you how to emulate the cunning, dastardly qualities of Australia's favourite reality TV villain, King George. Known for his...

Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products. In The Design of Everyday Things, Norman made the definitive case for human-centered design, showing that good design demanded that the user's must take precedence over a designer's aesthetic if anything, from light switches to airplanes, was going to work as the user needed.

“A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —Town & Country Welcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring...

Ein Spaziergang durch die Seelenlandschaft der Deutschen mit Bestseller-Autor Asfa-Wossen Asserate. Als Asfa-Wossen Asserate im Sommer 1968 zum Studieren aus Addis Abeba nach Tübingen kam, geriet er mitten hinein in die Studentenbewegung. Inzwischen besitzt der äthiopische Prinz die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft, von seinen englischen Freunden wird er liebevoll "My favourite Kraut" genannt. Nach über fünfzig Jahren in Deutschland ist es an der Zeit für ein persönliches Fazit.

Una buena fiesta, una buena fiesta de verdad, no cabe en una sola noche. (Ni en un solo libro.) Digamos: una fiesta a la queasisten Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera, Rigo Tovar y Aurora Reyes, Enriqueta Ochoa y Cantinflas, Vicente Rojo y Olga Breeskin, todo el exilio español y todo el elenco de Avándaro. Entre pulques y cocteles, la plática se pone buena y el chisme es mejor.