Many authors have wrestled with the death of a father in their writing, but few have grappled so fiercely or as powerfully as the brilliant Spanish writer Marcos Giralt Torrente does in Father and Son, the mesmerizing and discomfiting memoir that won him Spain's highest literary award, the National [...]

The ultimate guide to visual storytelling How to make the audience "feel" the story while they are "reading" the story. Using his experiences from working in the comic book industry, movie studios and teaching, Marcos introduces the reader to a step-by-step system that will create the most successf[...]

In this quartet of mesmerizing stories, Marcos Giralt Torrente explores the confounding, double-edged promise of love. Each finds a man carefully churning over his past, trying to fathom how the distance between people can become suddenly unbridgeable. Two tourists visit a remote island off the coas[...]

In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that far from being a time of neural silence, sleep is characterized by complex patterns of electrical, neurochemical, and metabolic activity in the brain. Sleep and the Brain presents some of the more dramatic developments in our understanding of [...]

In recent years, the old idea that gauge theories and string theories are equivalent has been implemented and developed in various ways, and there are by now various models where the string theory / gauge theory correspondence is at work. One of the most important examples of this correspondence rel[...]

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El temor es devastadoramente real. Todos nosotros -- en algun momento u otro -- lo hemos experimentado. De hecho, aproximadamente una de cada diez personas ha tenido una situacion critica al menos una vez en su vida. Sean grandes o pequenas, las cosas a las que tememos nos parecen insuperables, pero[...]

Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion a[...]

This is the ultimate guide to visual storytelling. Using his extensive experience of working in the comic book industry and for movie studios, Mateu-Mestre explains a step-by-step system for the best visual communication. From creating a single image, visual character development and environment, to[...]

En el desarrollo de un lider hay dos partes. La primera es la parte de Dios, que es facil de entender porque El nunca cambia. Son nuestras decisiones, actitudes y la manera en que respondemos a Dios las que hacen la diferencia. En su libro "Corazon de campeon, " el autor Juan Vereecken nos comparte [...]