Es una de las novelas más inquietantes de Mario Mendoza, un viaje literario entre la cordura y el delirio. La historia sigue a Anton Echeverry, un defensor de derechos humanos que, tras la trágica muerte de su esposa, se enfrenta a una crisis existencial. Su única razón para mantenerse en pie es su hijo Martín, un joven brillante pero discapacitado. Al descubrir que Martín se percibe a sí mismo como “la tristeza de Dios”, Anton urde un plan radical que transformará sus vidas y los sumergirá en una realidad cada vez más difusa.

Is a groundbreaking science fiction novel that explores themes of gender, politics, and human connection. Set on the planet Gethen, where inhabitants are ambisexual and can change gender, the story follows Genly Ai, an envoy from the Ekumen, a coalition of worlds. Genly is sent to Gethen to persuade its leaders to join the Ekumen, but he faces significant cultural and political challenges.

The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, includes the most current information and the results of research on the many issues that are relevant to forests and forestry. The text covers such timely topics as biofuels and intensive timber production, ecosystem and landscape scale management of public lands, ecosystem services, surface drinking water supplies, urban and community greenspace, forest carbon, fire and climate, and much more.

In Understanding Scientific Understanding, Henk W. de Regt explores the nature of scientific understanding, arguing that it is a central goal of science alongside explanation and prediction. He challenges the traditional view that understanding is merely a psychological byproduct of scientific theories and instead proposes that it is a legitimate and necessary epistemic aim.

Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is 'normal' and what is 'bizarre'? As the author argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove of others or ourselves in this way, we close our eyes to a deeper understanding of human nature. As a psychiatrist, she has also worked inside prisons with sex offenders, so she is familiar with the extremes of 'oddity'. Here, she uses a psychoanalytic framework with humour, insight and clarity to explore why we disapprove, and what we lose when we do.

This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom.