What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

A partir de una historia sencilla y emotiva, Yoshinori Noguchi (Hiroshima, 1963), reconocido experto en coaching y asesoramiento psicológico, nos sitúa delante de un espejo para mirar hacia nuestro interior. A Eiko le preocupa que los compañeros de colegio de su hijo Yuta lo maltraten, y se siente impotente y sola ante un problema que no sabe cómo resolver. Sin embargo, el enigmático Yaguchi le facilita un método sorprendente gracias al cual vivirá la situación más difícil de enfrentarse a sus fantasmas y seguir adelante con espíritu nuevo. En el año 2010, los lectores de España y América Latina descubrieron este relato de Yoshinori Noguchi y las reflexiones que lo acompañan. Esta enseñanza, a medio camino entre el coaching y las constelaciones familiares, nos acerca a una filosofía oriental renovada y nos propone pautas claras y efectivas para resolver de raíz los problemas de la vida.

A partir de una historia sencilla y emotiva, Yoshinori Noguchi (Hiroshima, 1963), reconocido experto en coaching y asesoramiento psicológico, nos sitúa delante de un espejo para mirar hacia nuestro interior. A Eiko le preocupa que los compañeros de colegio de su hijo Yuta lo maltraten, y se siente impotente y sola ante un problema que no sabe cómo resolver. Sin embargo, el enigmático Yaguchi le facilita un método sorprendente gracias al cual vivirá la situación más difícil de enfrentarse a sus fantasmas y seguir adelante con espíritu nuevo. En el año 2010, los lectores de España y América Latina descubrieron este relato de Yoshinori Noguchi y las reflexiones que lo acompañan. Esta enseñanza, a medio camino entre el coaching y las constelaciones familiares, nos acerca a una filosofía oriental renovada y nos propone pautas claras y efectivas para resolver de raíz los problemas de la vida.

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire. Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

¡Tras el éxito de Mi vecino Miyazaki. El viaje de Chihiro, ganadora del Óscar y el Oso de Oro de Berlín, es una de las películas más aclamadas de la historia del cine, pero también de las más complejas y profundas. En este libro desciframos todos sus misterios, y nos sumergimos en los entresijos de una historia única y fascinante. Vuelve a disfrutarla y descubre todo lo que se esconde tras ella. Este es un libro sobre el alma y el corazón de El viaje de Chihiro. Una guía imprescindible y una narración explicada y completa de lo que significa su filosofía, cada momento, cada detalle y cada instante exacto de la película dirigida por Hayao Miyazaki y producida por Studio Ghibli. Un libro escrito por Álvaro López Martín, creador y autor del blog de referencia Generación GHIBLI, y de los libros Mi vecino Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli, la animación japonesa que lo cambió todo y antes de Mi vecino Miyazaki. El origen de Studio Ghibli. Prólogo de la periodista y escritora Marta Fernández.

A tale of dark magic and court intrigue in a setting inspired by historical China--anime soon! Deep within the palace lives a mysterious woman known only as the Raven Consort. Some say she’s an old woman, others that she’s young and beautiful. But all are agreed on this: her dark arts have the power to exorcise spirits, lay fatal curses, and find what has been lost—for a price. When the young emperor, Koushou, seeks out the Raven Consort to make use of that magic, what follows will overturn the court...and perhaps even the country.

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire. Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...

What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.