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"La genialidad y la sensibilidad están presentes en todo ser humano sano y se han convertido en un importante valor; a decir verdad, en una necesidad para afrontar con garantías los procelosos tiempos que vivimos, el umbral de una época difícil que solo solucionará cada uno, siendo más humano y recurriendo a lo que fue en su infancia: una persona sensible y genial. Este libro defiende la necesidad de descubrir y salvaguardar la genialidad y...

Author Eric Weiner sets off around the globe and back through history to examine how creative genius flouishes in specific places at specific times, hoping to nourish a culture of creativity in his own home.

"Under constant danger of being kidnapped by the shadowy Corporation, Max is on the run from New York to London and beyond. But soon the call comes for the Change Maker kids' next mission: make sure no kid ever goes hungry again! If anyone can tackle a problem this big, Max and her genius friends can. But mysterious clues about her past keep distracting Max's focus. She always wanted to know who her parents were and why they abandoned her as a baby....

[This book] explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945 ... [The author explores] historical and archeological sources to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of Christianity as we know it ... [She] compares such sources as Thomas' gospel ... with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some...

For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.

An 18-year-old woman reeling from her mother’s death arrives at a proto-commune of poets, painters and musicians on the Greek island of Hydra where she has her ideas about art, relationships and her own innocence tested. "In this novel based on real events and people, a young woman arrives on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and falls in with a bohemian group of poets, painters, and musicians, including the young Leonard Cohen and his beloved...

When Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, discover inventor Hank Witherspoon is missing, they travel deep into the Amazon jungle, overcoming strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea.