Un ensayo demoledor que nos enfrenta a una gran pregunta: ¿estamos obligados a ser felices? Es más, ¿quién dicta qué es la felicidad? Tener o ser, esa es la cuestión. De un tiempo a esta parte, parece como si estuviéramos obligados a ser felices. Tanto los Estados como el mercado y la tecnología nos animan a dejar atrás el malestar (y, de paso, la inconformidad) y a disfrutar (¡sin protestas, por favor!) del presente. Pero, ¿eso es la felicidad?...

In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions-particularly fear and anxiety. This has ushered in an age of "nervous states," both in our individual bodies and our body politic. Eloquently...

It's hard enough to adjust to a big move -- even harder when it's to New York City -- and harder still when there's a singing crocodile living in your attic! Josh Primm isn't making friends easily, so he's glad that Lyle is willing, but their menacing neighbor is determined to rid the neighborhood of the reptile.

An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when twins -- who look nothing alike -- are born and then separated. Years later the unlikely siblings meet.

Sword and sorcery drama about immortal Scotsmen from the 16th century battling for supremecy in modern day New York City.