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The IESE is an international school that began as a risky venture: offering a long-term programme aimed at businessmen and top executives, something unheard of in 1958. Six years later it began the first two-year MBA cour¬se in Europe, designed in cooperation with the Harvard Business School, with which it still has close ties. Today the IESE carries out activities in four continents.
Over sixty years ago, Adrian Troadec saw a girl leaving a music class. Two world wars later, the chocolate factory he opened to win her is still open. Set between two continents, games of chess and violin notes, The Taste of Chocolate is an unfinished symphony of love and dreams. A novel as intense and addictive as the best chocolate.
A novel focused on the business world, particularly the interpersonal relations between co-workers, where sex, lies, secrets and passion reveal the fundamental nature of the human condition.
From the discovery of fire until the mid 20th century food was cooked by burning wood, coal, gas or electricity. This all changed when a mysterious appliance appeared and revolutionised cookery using strange electromagnetic waves that drastically reduced cooking times and allowed food to be cooked in the same dish as it was served in.
After a mishap at the zoo years ago, Dani stopped speaking. With the hope that it will help him recover his speech, his family decide to go on a safari to Africa. Soon after they arrive a series of events mean that Dani find himself alone and helpless in the African savannah.
Eileen lives a pleasantly normal life. She works in Public Relations in the family business, she earns a good salary, and is crazy about her Huskie and the two friends that she has had since childhood.
Three foreigners dead on the Costa Brava, all three red as crabs and with inexplicable smiles on their lips. The case seems clear for National Guardsman Rafael Corrales: it must have been jellyfish, whose poison doesn't affect the locals because they have 'better skin'.
It is the year 480 BC. Xerxes, the King of Persia, declares war to the Greek states that have not surrendered before him. General Themistocles, a convinced democrat, leads the fleet that will fight in the Straight between Salamis and Athens to stop Xerxes expansionist plans, the terrible King of Persia who wants to dominate the East.
“Sometimes your brain just clicks and nothing is ever where it was again” Which is exactly what happens to Méritus Moodle while he stands looking at some cave paintings of a strange person wearing some sort of crown made of leaves.
One foggy morning in 1980, Julio Vilches disembarked on the Galician island of Sálvora, located in the mouth of the Arousa River, ready to start his stint as the lighthouse keeper.