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Song of Silence
by Éloi LeclercSaint Jeanne Jugan, foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, was not recognized as such until after her death. Jeanne lived through repeated betrayals and transformed these trials into a path toward holiness that helped her connect with the suffering of Christ. Read the fascinating spiritual journey of this remarkable saint.
Fruitful Economics
by Éloi Laurent Jacques Le CacheuxJean-Paul Fitoussi has left a big mark both in terms of scholarship and policy-making influence around the world, and even more in Europe and France. Fitoussi's pluralistic approach has shaped modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality and, more recently, the economics of sustainability. This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi. The text is edited by two of Fitoussi's closest collaborators over the years and includes contributions from five Nobel Prize winners, all also Fitoussi's co-authors and friends: Kenneth Arrow, Edmund Phelps, Amartya Sen, Robert Solow and Joseph Stiglitz. The volume editors provide a comprehensive introduction which contextualises Fitoussi's work and discusses his interpretations of Keynesian economics and the financial crises, as well as a broad outline of his ideas. The contributors closely examine Fitoussi's macroeconomic theory on managing economic policy, his ideas on Europe's integration, sustainability and measurement of the economic world. The format of the volume is original, since it allows Fitoussi to respond to three of the five Nobel prize winners, and is unique in providing a wide scope of opinions from top authorities in the field. This collection is a key study of Fitoussi's ideas making it essential reading for students and researchers of macroeconomic policy, European political economy and sustainability, as well as being of importance to policy-makers, civil-servants and the interested lay person.
Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
by Éloi LaurentHow moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainabilityNever before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things—those that will help us solve the real social, economic, political, and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century? In Measuring Tomorrow, Éloi Laurent argues that we need to move away from narrowly useful metrics such as gross domestic product and instead use broader ones that aim at well-being, resilience, and sustainability. By doing so, countries will be able to shift their focus away from infinite and unrealistic growth and toward social justice and quality of life for their citizens.The time has come for these broader metrics to become more than just descriptive, Laurent argues; applied carefully by private and public decision makers, they can foster genuine progress. He begins by taking stock of the booming field of well-being and sustainability indicators, and explains the insights that the best of these can offer. He then shows how these indicators can be used to develop new policies, from the local to the global.An essential resource for scholars, students, and policymakers, Measuring Tomorrow covers all aspects of well-being—including health, education, and the environment—and incorporates a broad range of data and fascinating case studies from around the world: not just the United States and Europe but also China, Africa, the Middle East, and India.
Report on the State of the European Union: Volume 5: The Euro at 20 and the Futures of Europe (Report On The State Of The European Union Ser.)
by Éloi Laurent Jacques Le Cacheux Jérôme CreelThis volume, the fifth instalment of the classic Report on the European Union series, offers at once an economic and intellectual historical perspective on the creation of the euro and its 20 first years, a comprehensive review of the current and future challenges of the euro area, including a critical look at the different options for the reform of its governance and institutional architecture and finally a close look at the “new euros”, i.e. the ambitious projects that could instil a new life into the stalled European project. It covers a wide range of key economic and social topics such as monetary and fiscal policy, tax competition, the EU budget, structural policy, inequality, gender equality, post carbon economy, well-being advancement and democracy. Weakened by a decade of economic crisis and shaken by the awakening of populism, the European project faces three disintegrations: democratic disaffection, monetary and financial fragmentation and territorial dislocation. If EU member states want to escape those looming risks, they must, as they always have in the last five decades, reinvent Europe in order to save it.
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment (Routledge International Handbooks)
by Éloi Laurent Klara ZwicklFeaturing a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective. This collective volume sheds new light on the effect of economic and power inequality on environmental dynamics and, conversely, on the economic and social impact of environmental dynamics. The chapters gathered in this handbook make four original contributions to the field of political economy of the environment. First, they revisit essential concepts and methods of environmental economics in the light of their political economy. Second, they introduce readers to recent theoretical and empirical advances in key issues of political economy of the environment with a special focus on the relationship between inequality and environmental degradation, a nexus that has dramatically come into focus with the COVID crisis. Third, the authors of this handbook open the field to its critical global and regional dimensions: global issues, such as the environmental justice movement and inequality and climate change as well as regional issues such as agriculture systems, air pollution, natural resources appropriation and urban sustainability. Fourth and finally, the work shows how novel analysis can translate into new forms of public policy that require institutional reform and new policy tools. Ecosystems preservation, international climate negotiations and climate mitigation policies all have a strong distributional dimension that chapters point to. Pressing environmental policy such as carbon pricing and low-carbon and energy transitions entail numerous social issues that also need to be accounted for with new analytical and technological tools. This handbook will be an invaluable reference, research and teaching tool for anyone interested in political economy approaches to environmental issues and ecological crises.
The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy
by Éloi LaurentThe purpose of this volume, bringing together key actors of the well-being community, including scholars and policy-makers, is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity. A decade after the publication of the Stiglitz Report (2009), alternative visions to GDP and growth, that flourished in the 1970s, have re-emerged from all corners of the world, at all levels of governance. Yet, GDP and growth remain very much dominant in defining public policies, influencing businesses and shaping imaginaries. This book moves forward on two urgent tasks that stand before us in order to make progress in the well-being transition: first, connecting well-being to sustainability in a consistent framework highlighting their complementarity, using health as a pivot; second, operationalizing well-being indicators, i.e. integrating them into policy at all levels of governance.
Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being: Rethinking Sustainability Economics for the 21st Century (Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability)
by Éloi LaurentThis book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenting the tangible systemic crisis of our Biosphere, the economic roots of this crisis are rarely exposed, examined nor addressed. This book’s central contribution to sustainability studies is to argue that what we should sustain is not economic growth but social-ecological well-being defined as a combination of planetary health, cooperation and justice resulting in human holistic prosperity. The long-term prosperity of humanity indeed relies on generating health and fostering cooperation informed by justice: social-ecological well-being should be the cornerstone of sustainability economics for the 21st century. Within this framework, this book attempts to explain why the three key dimensions of sustainability are jointly in crisis, show what vision can articulate those dimensions to rethink sustainability economics for our century, what practical policies should be undertaken to give life to these visions before concluding on the need to reinvent the narratives that sustain economic analysis.
Information Quality in Information Fusion and Decision Making (Information Fusion and Data Science)
by Éloi Bossé Galina L. RogovaThis book presents a contemporary view of the role of information quality in information fusion and decision making, and provides a formal foundation and the implementation strategies required for dealing with insufficient information quality in building fusion systems for decision making. Information fusion is the process of gathering, processing, and combining large amounts of information from multiple and diverse sources, including physical sensors to human intelligence reports and social media. That data and information may be unreliable, of low fidelity, insufficient resolution, contradictory, fake and/or redundant. Sources may provide unverified reports obtained from other sources resulting in correlations and biases. The success of the fusion processing depends on how well knowledge produced by the processing chain represents reality, which in turn depends on how adequate data are, how good and adequate are the models used, and how accurate, appropriate or applicable prior and contextual knowledge is. <p><p> By offering contributions by leading experts, this book provides an unparalleled understanding of the problem of information quality in information fusion and decision-making for researchers and professionals in the field.
Possibility Theory for the Design of Information Fusion Systems (Information Fusion and Data Science)
by Éloi Bossé Basel SolaimanThis practical guidebook describes the basic concepts, the mathematical developments, and the engineering methodologies for exploiting possibility theory for the computer-based design of an information fusion system where the goal is decision support for industries in smart ICT (information and communications technologies). This exploitation of possibility theory improves upon probability theory, complements Dempster-Shafer theory, and fills an important gap in this era of Big Data and Internet of Things.The book discusses fundamental possibilistic concepts: distribution, necessity measure, possibility measure, joint distribution, conditioning, distances, similarity measures, possibilistic decisions, fuzzy sets, fuzzy measures and integrals, and finally, the interrelated theories of uncertainty..uncertainty. These topics form an essential tour of the mathematical tools needed for the latter chapters of the book. These chapters present applications related to decision-making and pattern recognition schemes, and finally, a concluding chapter on the use of possibility theory in the overall challenging design of an information fusion system. This book will appeal to researchers and professionals in the field of information fusion and analytics, information and knowledge processing, smart ICT, and decision support systems.
Relational Calculus for Actionable Knowledge (Information Fusion and Data Science)
by Éloi Bossé Michel BarèsThis book focuses on one of the major challenges of the newly created scientific domain known as data science: turning data into actionable knowledge in order to exploit increasing data volumes and deal with their inherent complexity. Actionable knowledge has been qualitatively and intensively studied in management, business, and the social sciences but in computer science and engineering, its connection has only recently been established to data mining and its evolution, ‘Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining’ (KDD). Data mining seeks to extract interesting patterns from data, but, until now, the patterns discovered from data have not always been ‘actionable’ for decision-makers in Socio-Technical Organizations (STO). With the evolution of the Internet and connectivity, STOs have evolved into Cyber-Physical and Social Systems (CPSS) that are known to describe our world today. In such complex and dynamic environments, the conventional KDD process is insufficient, and additional processes are required to transform complex data into actionable knowledge. Readers are presented with advanced knowledge concepts and the analytics and information fusion (AIF) processes aimed at delivering actionable knowledge. The authors provide an understanding of the concept of ‘relation’ and its exploitation, relational calculus, as well as the formalization of specific dimensions of knowledge that achieve a semantic growth along the AIF processes. This book serves as an important technical presentation of relational calculus and its application to processing chains in order to generate actionable knowledge. It is ideal for graduate students, researchers, or industry professionals interested in decision science and knowledge engineering.
Diversity of Family Farming Around the World: Existence, Transformations And Possible Futures Of Family Farms
by Jean-Michel Sourisseau Pierre-Marie Bosc Philippe Bonnal Pierre Gasselin Élodie Valette Jean-François BélièresThis book aims at explaining the nature and strength of the links between the families and their farms looking at their diversity throughout the world. To do so, it documents family farming diversity by using the sustainable rural livelihood (SRL) framework exploring their ability to adapt and transform to changing environments. In 18 case studies in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, it shows how family farms resist under adverse conditions, seize new opportunities and permanently transform. Family farms, far from being backwards are potential solutions to face the current challenges and shape a new future for agriculture taking advantage of their local knowledge and capacity to cope with external constraints. Many coauthors of the book have both an empirical and theoretical experience of family farming in developed and developing countries and their related institutions. They specify «what makes and means family» in family farming and the diversity of their expertise draws a wide and original picture of this resilient way of farming throughout the world.
Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations: A Global Toolkit for Cities (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)
by Alison Blay-Palmer Élodie Valette Amanda Di Battista Beatrice Intoppa Ophélie Roudelle Géraldine ChaboudThis book presents URBAL, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their food systems more sustainable. However, documenting and understanding how these innovations impact the sustainability of food system can be a challenge. The Urban Driven Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems (URBAL) methodology responds to these constraints by providing innovations with a simple, open-source, resource-efficient tool that is easily appropriated and adaptable to different contexts. URBAL is designed to respond to the demands of field stakeholders, whether public or private, to accompany and guide them in their actions and decision-making with regard to sustainability objectives. This book presents this qualitative and participatory impact assessment method of food innovations and applies it to several cases of food innovation around the world, including the impact of agricultural districts in Milan, chefs and gastronomy in Brasilia, e-commerce in Vietnam, eco-friendly farm systems in Berlin and The Nourish to Flourish governance process in Cape Town. The book demonstrates how food innovations can impact different dimensions of sustainability, positively and negatively, and identify the elements that facilitate or hinder these impacts. The volume reflects on how to strengthen the capacity of these stakeholders to disseminate their innovations on other scales to contribute to the transition towards more sustainable food systems. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars working on sustainable food systems, urban food, food innovation and impact assessment, as well as policymakers, practitioners and funders interested in these areas.
Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological and Practical Issues
by Élodie Giroux Francesca Merlin Yohan FayetResearch on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Health
by Élodie GirouxIna series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed anaturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of'biological function', a concept of 'reference class' and the notion of'statistical normality'. His theory has profoundly shaped the philosophicaldebates on the concepts of health and disease. It could even be said that thenumerous criticisms of his 'biostatistical theory' are at the centre ofwhat is usually referred to as the debate between 'normativists' and'naturalists'. Today, the predominant naturalist theory of health is stillBoorse's biostatistical theory. Thisvolume offers the first comprehensive review and critical assessment of thenature and status of naturalism in the philosophy of health. It exploresthe notion of biological normativity and its relevance for the philosophy ofhealth, and it analyses the implications of the philosophical theories ofhealth for healthcare and the debate on health enhancement. Inthe first section, several contributions identify the kind of 'naturalism' thebiostatistical theory belongs to and offer further criticisms or possiblemodifications, such as the concept of function that is required by this theory,and whether a comparativist approach to health is more relevant than a non-comparativistone. The second section explores natural or biological 'normativity' and somepossible accounts of health that could be based on this concept. The third andfinal section focuses on the implications of naturalism in healthcare. 'Goalsof Medicine' is the first paper in which Christopher Boorse ventured toward analysingthe implication of his biostatistical theory of health on the practice ofmedicine, the difficult issue of the goals of medicine and the boundary betweentreating and enhancing. Other papers in this section critically evaluateBoorse's account and analyse the importance of a positive concept of health.
Mad with Freedom: The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940
by Élodie Edwards-GrossiThe use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.
Nietzsche and Phenomenology: Power, Life, Subjectivity (Studies in Continental Thought)
by Élodie Boublil and Christine DaigleWhat are the challenges that Nietzsche's philosophy poses for contemporary phenomenology? Elodie Boublil, Christine Daigle, and an international group of scholars take Nietzsche in new directions and shed light on the sources of phenomenological method in Nietzsche, echoes and influences of Nietzsche within modern phenomenology, and connections between Nietzsche, phenomenology, and ethics. Nietzsche and Phenomenology offers a historical and systematic reconsideration of the scope of Nietzsche's thought.
Asesinato en el Parque Sinaloa
by Élmer MendozaUna nueva entrega de la saga del Zurdo Mendieta y un relato trepidante en el que la violencia, el narcotráfico, la corrupción y el amor se entretejen en un retrato perfecto del presente de nuestro país. Edgar «el Zurdo» Mendienta ha decidido retirarse de las fuerzas policiales. Desencantado y hastiado por la violencia, parece sucumbir ante el consumo autodestructivo de whisky, cuando Abel Sánchez, viejo amigo y mentor, hace que vuelva como detective por un favor al que El Zurdo no puede negarse: hallar al asesino de su hijo, el abogado Pedro Sánchez Morán, quien fue encontrado muerto en el Parque Sinaloa. La policía de Los Mochis cerró el caso sin investigación alguna, pues dan por hecho que Pedro fue asesinado por su novia, la también abogada Larissa Carlón, cuya muerte reciente fue asumida como suicidio. Elementos de la Marina patrullan Los Mochis; el Perro Laveaga, cabecilla del cártel delPacífico, se ha fugado de la prisión de máxima seguridad de Barranca Plana y todo parece indicar que está escondido en alguna parte de la ciudad. El poderoso narcotraficante está actuando con imprudente descuido; confía demasiado en el Grano Biz, su lugarteniente en la zona, y, además, su obsesión por una mujer lo tiene trastornado. El deseo más grande del Perro es reencontrarse con Daniela K, locutora de gran audiencia, quien ha prometido hacer una radionovela sobre la vida del capo. Asesinato en el Parque Sinaloa es un laberinto de intrigas y complicidades, de senderos que convergen en la pasión y el crimen. Élmer Mendoza nos entrega una obra maestra del género, una novela vertiginosa que nos recuerda que la pregunta fundamental de la literatura policiaca es la misma del amor: ¿quién diablos es el culpable?
Besar al detective
by Élmer MendozaUna vibrante novela que explora el entramado de traiciones, pactos y conspiraciones de una sociedad en la que el crimen organizado forma parte indisoluble de la realidad cotidiana. El maestro de la novela negra mexicana, Élmer Mendoza, regresa con un nuevo caso del Zurdo Mendieta Los pobres resultados de la investigación sobre el sangriento homicidio de un adivinador obligan al Zurdo Mendieta a echar mano de sus contactos dentro del oscuro mundo del narcotráfico. Pero, como todos los favores, ninguno es gratuito. Los pobres resultados de la investigación sobre el sangriento homicidio de un adivinador obligan al Zurdo Mendieta a echar mano de sus contactos dentro del oscuro mundo del narcotráfico. Pero, como todos los favores, ninguno es gratuito. Esta búsqueda lo pone de nuevo en la mira y al reencuentro de su vieja amiga Samantha Valdés, jefa del Cártel del Pacífico, quien tras sufrir un atentado se halla convaleciente en un hospital, rodeada de inútiles agentes especiales y un desconfiado ejército mexicano. Como pago por la información sobre el homicida del adivino, al Zurdo no le queda más remedio que ayudar a la jefa a escapar. Lo consiguen mediante un plan descabellado y mucha adrenalina, aunque el rostro del detective es identificado y su misión queda truncada. En la clandestinidad y con un futuro incierto, el Zurdo revive un traumático evento que remueve su miedo y lo regresa a la calle: su hijo ha sido secuestrado en Los Ángeles. Con ayuda del cártel viaja a Estados Unidos, donde descubre una enmarañada situación en la que reina la confusión operada por el FBI, que esconde intereses de gran alcance que Mendieta no alcanza a vislumbrar. Éste es el regreso del Zurdo Mendieta en una vibrante novela en la que, una vez más, se enfrentará a un complejo rompecabezas donde la frontera que divide la ley del crimen pierde su definición. Otros autores han opinado: "El patriarca de la literatura policial en México" -Arturo Pérez Reverte-
Ella entró por la ventana del baño
by Élmer Mendoza«Quizá deba considerar la duda de Hamlet: ser o no ser, es la bronca.» Sebastián Salcido, alias el Siciliano, está libre después de pasar más de dos décadas en prisión. Es el líder de un despiadado grupo de exmilitares dedicados al narcotráfico. Lejos de suavizarse en la cárcel, ahora busca con ferocidad vengarse del excomandante de la policía que consiguiera arrestarlo. El Zurdo Mendieta deberá atraparlo, pero muy pronto descubrirá que se trata probablemente de uno de los rivales más poderosos y desalmados que ha enfrentado en su carrera de detective. Por si las cosas no fueran lo suficientemente difíciles, el Zurdo tiene una misión paralela: encontrar al antiguo amor de un empresario moribundo. Ricardo Favela, de ochenta y seis años, está en el hospital y los médicos le dan una semana de vida. Su último deseo es volver a ver a la mujer con quien vivió un intenso amorío hace veintidós años. Pero ni siquiera sabe su nombre. Samantha Valdés, jefa del cartel del Pacífico y amiga del Zurdo, decide ayudarlo porque sabe de quién se trata. El Siciliano se ha convertido en una amenaza implacable. ¿Qué resultará de esta alianza contra un enemigo común? El Zurdo Mendieta está en una carrera contra ese reloj infalible que es la muerte, a la que ahora verá de frente. ¿Hallará al viejo amorío de Favela? Quizás usted tenga que encontrar la última pista.
Kiss the Detective: A Lefty Mendieta Investigation (Book 4)
by Élmer MendozaAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carré and Mick Heron"The most important thing that's happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph.Detective Lefty Mendieta makes a deal with the devil in a gripping new novel from the Godfather of Narco Lit Short of leads on the execution-style murder of a fortune-teller, Detective Lefty Mendieta turns to his contacts in the drug underworld. They oblige, but there is a quid pro quo: Help Samantha Valdés, head of the Pacific Cartel, slip through the net of Mexican army and federal police encircling the hospital where she is recovering after an attempt on her life. Grudgingly he agrees, but then gets caught on camera during the escape and becomes headline news.Fired from the force and on the run from the Feds, Lefty again seeks Samantha's help when he learns that his son Jason has been kidnapped in Los Angeles. There, he must come to terms with the woman who broke his heart, while contending with a thicket of conspiracies, feints and double-crosses that further blur the distinction between crime and the law. Betrayal is certain. To save his son, who will Lefty sell out?Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried
Kiss the Detective: A Lefty Mendieta Investigation (Book 4)
by Élmer MendozaAn intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carré and Mick Heron"The most important thing that's happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph.Detective Lefty Mendieta makes a deal with the devil in a gripping new novel from the Godfather of Narco Lit Short of leads on the execution-style murder of a fortune-teller, Detective Lefty Mendieta turns to his contacts in the drug underworld. They oblige, but there is a quid pro quo: Help Samantha Valdés, head of the Pacific Cartel, slip through the net of Mexican army and federal police encircling the hospital where she is recovering after an attempt on her life. Grudgingly he agrees, but then gets caught on camera during the escape and becomes headline news.Fired from the force and on the run from the Feds, Lefty again seeks Samantha's help when he learns that his son Jason has been kidnapped in Los Angeles. There, he must come to terms with the woman who broke his heart, while contending with a thicket of conspiracies, feints and double-crosses that further blur the distinction between crime and the law. Betrayal is certain. To save his son, who will Lefty sell out?Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried
La cuarta pregunta: Una aventura más en Gapi Garay
by Élmer MendozaHay preguntas clave que nunca llegan a pronunciarse, otras que habría sido mejor omitir, algunas más que no sabemos cómo responder y por supuesto hay respuestas que preferiríamos no escuchar. Vuelve el Capi Garay en una nueva entrega de aventuras. Esta vez ha sufrido un descontón de su morra, y lo único que atina a hacer es pedirle tips a un cura para recuperarla. Solo que en vez de hacerla de doctor corazón, el padre Celerino le entrega el mapa de un tesoro y pistas para hallarlo, antes de morir balaceado. Sintiéndose comprometido, el Capi se lanza a un road trip con sus amigos tras la pista clave. Pero más que un rally aventurero, aquella travesía rebasa las fronteras obvias: a través de portales del tiempo y con la ayuda de los guardianes (porque los ven muy verdes para cumplir solos la encomienda), el Capi, Dante, Murakami, Adria y Lluquet se embarcan en una peligrosa misión viajando de una época a otra mientras descubren otras realidades a bordo de un jeep con un crack al volante. Pero la fortuna que buscan está llena de misterios y el camino para llegar a ella no es precisamente una ruta turística con vista panorámica. Un Mustang Mach 1 los persigue y seguro que no busca su amistad.
Name of the Dog: A Lefty Mendieta Investigation (Book 3)
by Élmer MendozaPerfect for fans of Mick Herron and John Le Carré"The most important thing that's happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph.It's Christmas in Culiacán and Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta can't believe his luck. An old flame has returned with a teenage son he knew nothing about. Happiness seems to finally beckon for our careworn hero. The only snag is that Jason Mendieta wants to follow in his father's footsteps-even as Mexico's drug war descends a slippery slope toward chaos.While Lefty pursues a lunatic who has taken to bumping off dentists with a heavy-calibre pistol, a secret agent infiltrates a meeting of the drug lords and hears Pacific Cartel boss Samantha Valdés implore her underlings to stay out of the war. But an audacious murder provokes Samantha to change her mind and launch a wave of grisly killings across the country.Samantha then persuades Lefty to help her find the killer that pushed her over the edge. The truth he discovers will underline an old adage: revenge is a dish best served cold. No quiet family Christmas for our detective.
Name of the Dog: A Lefty Mendieta Investigation (Book 3)
by Élmer MendozaPerfect for fans of Mick Herron and John Le Carré"The most important thing that's happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph.It's Christmas in Culiacán and Detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta can't believe his luck. An old flame has returned with a teenage son he knew nothing about. Happiness seems to finally beckon for our careworn hero. The only snag is that Jason Mendieta wants to follow in his father's footsteps-even as Mexico's drug war descends a slippery slope toward chaos.While Lefty pursues a lunatic who has taken to bumping off dentists with a heavy-calibre pistol, a secret agent infiltrates a meeting of the drug lords and hears Pacific Cartel boss Samantha Valdés implore her underlings to stay out of the war. But an audacious murder provokes Samantha to change her mind and launch a wave of grisly killings across the country.Samantha then persuades Lefty to help her find the killer that pushed her over the edge. The truth he discovers will underline an old adage: revenge is a dish best served cold. No quiet family Christmas for our detective.
No todos los besos son iguales
by Élmer MendozaMe estoy hartando: ¿tantos hombres en el mundo y no hay un idiota que me despierte? Se supone que transcurriría una eternidad antes de que el reino de Mey se librara de la mala obra que le impuso Espolonela con su varita maldita, pero apenas van cuatro años de soporífera existencia y, dicen, la princesa ya medio despertó y anda por ahí refunfuñando en busca de alguien que la bese para espabilarse del todo, y con ella, la comarca entera. Pero ¿quién es en realidad la Bella Durmiente, además de una insolente? El palacio de Mey colinda al norte con los reinos de Mocorio, Navolatura y el País del Agua, donde el clásico cuento de hadas hace esquina con la vena satírica -los guiños delirantes y la aguda fuerza narrativa- de uno de los autores mexicanos más reconocidos de la literatura actual. Una hilarante reinterpretación de las versiones de los Grimm, Basile y Perrault, que se da vuelo con la oralidad en la que tuvo su origen. Hadas en aprietos, espadachines trotamundos, una panda de bribones de diversas cataduras y más de tres atolondrados; aves fénix, dominatrices y reyes... Todos a expensas de los caprichos de un poder furibundo que achicharra hasta a las moscas.