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A scientist and a private eye investigate a strange chain of robberies taking place in museums throughout the world. Among the items are Galileos finger and Einsteins brain. Could the secret society behind the robberies have known that Newtons mathematical calculations set the year 2060 as the end of the world? Is there a connection between ancient rites and modern scientific breakthroughs? The plot reviews scientific milestones and takes the reader all over the world in search for the key to the thefts hiding the biggest secret of humanity.

The Lie Circumspect is a novel by Rita. Rita was an English novelist also known as Eliza Humphreys. Excerpt: "Startled and white as death, she looked up at his face. It was not the face she had known and loved in her girlish innocence; not the face that had haunted her memory for four despairing years. It was the face of a man into whose soul the iron of suffering had entered, whose heart had been seared, not purified, in the furnace of sorrow. It takes a great nature to bear deserved punishment, and Lawrence Latimer's nature was not great."

Hay más imbéciles que personas amables o inteligentes. A partir de la constatación de este hecho incontrovertible, Salvador Sostres ha reunido en el Libro de los imbéciles veinticuatro cuentos que, entre burlas y veras, nos ofrece una ingeniosa galería de los imbéciles más comunes y peligrosos: el rico imbécil, el amante imbécil, el profesor imbécil... Una guía para navegantes de esta disparatada sociedad en la que nos ha tocado vivir.

Novelista y compositor, E. T. A. HOFFMANN nació al filo de una época de transición caracterizada por el surgimiento de la nueva sensibilidad romántica y la difuminación de los claros contornos del mundo clásico. La materia de estos CUENTOS 1 extraños y estremecedores traducidos y prologados por Carmen Bravo-Villasante son los sueños, el magnetismo, la telequinesia, el sonambulismo, los presentimientos, la premonición y la telepatía. Dividida la recopilación en dos volúmenes (L 5611 y L 5612), este primero incluye seis relatos fascinantes («El magnetizador», «El hombre de la...