2023

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.

A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness. Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the horror his discoveries might cause. Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg battle over the soul of physics after creating two equivalent yet opposed versions of quantum mechanics. Their fight will tear the very fabric of reality, revealing a world stranger than they could have ever imagined. Using extraordinary, epoch-defining moments from the history of science, Benjamín Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.

Libro inaugural en su carrera de escritor, Uno y el Universo es un conjunto de artículos escritos en 1945 y premiados por un jurado de reconocido mérito: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Vicente Barbieri, Leonidas Barletta y Ricardo Molinari. Aquel Primer Premio en Prosa de la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires presentaba a un Ernesto Sabato joven y punzante, lúcido y reflexivo. Los textos que aparecen en este histórico volumen pasan revista a los hechos políticos y filosóficos heredados del siglo XIX y cuyas consecuencias tienen todavía hoy profundas resonancias en la conformación de sujeto y su relación con el mundo de las ideas, las ilusiones y el progreso. "La ciencia es una escuela de modestia, de valor intelectual y de tolerancia: muestra que el pensamiento es un proceso, que no hay gran hombre que no se haya equivocado, que no hay dogma que no se haya desmoronado ante el embate de los nuevos hechos." Con la agudeza que luego afianzará, pero con la misma convicción moral de siempre, Sabato ilustra su permanente interrogación sobre el hombre, censura la moral neutral de la ciencia y aboga por una cultura donde tengan cabida los otros, en una nueva imagen del mundo.