Piedra de toque

Julia nació con una lesión neurológica irreversible. Meses antes de que se cumpla el plazo fatal que le pronosticaron, decide relatar en un diario sus dos años de vida. Una visión del mundo provocadora e insolente, que sorprende desde la primera línea por su percepción tan extraordinariamente peculiar, fresca e irónica, que convierte sus palabras en un torrente de vida y humor.

Having a job and earning money are a part of everyday life for most people, especially adults. The concept seems fairly straightforward: one works to earn. This volume discerns the difference between a job and a career, as well as how a job can develop into a career. Readers will learn why a community's economy needs jobs, how paying someone to do a job helps the person who is paying them, and even about job loss and its consequences. The text also explains different jobs and their effects on the economy, such as those of professional, production, arts, and government and military jobs.

De todos los libros escritos por Lygia Bojunga, quizá el que ahora tienes en tus manos sea el más personal. La autora nos cuenta en primera persona cuál ha sido y es su relación con el libro, "compañero, refugio y comida".

During the XVII and XVIII centuries, there were great thinkers who risked their freedom and their lives over their revolutionary ideas. Take a look at the philosophers that were the pillars of both modern thinking and science: Galileo, Hobbes, Newton, and many more. They dared to question the norm.