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The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List
by Mietek Pemper“Don’t thank me for your survival, thank your valiant Stern and Pemper, who stared death in the face constantly.”—Oskar Schindler in a speech to his released Jewish workers in May 1945.Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List popularized the true story of a German businessman who manipulated his Nazi connections and spent his personal fortune to save some 1,200 Jewish prisoners from certain death during the Holocaust. But few know that those lists were made possible by a secret strategy designed by a young Polish Jew at the Płaszow concentration camp. Mietek Pemper’s compelling and moving memoir tells the true story of how Schindler’s list really came to pass.Pemper was born in 1920 into a lively and cultivated Jewish family for whom everything changed in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland. Evicted from their home, they were forced into the Krakow ghetto and, later, into the nearby camp of Płaszow where Pemper’s knowledge of the German language was put to use by the sadistic camp commandant Amon Goth. Forced to work as Goth’s personal stenographer from March 1943 to September 1944—an exceptional job for a Jewish prisoner—Pemper soon realized that he could use his position as the commandant’s private secretary to familiarize himself with the inner workings of the Nazi bureaucracy and exploit the system to his fellow detainees’ advantage. Once he gained access to classified documents, Pemper was able to pass on secret information for Schindler to compile his famous lists. After the war, Pemper was the key witness of the prosecution in the 1946 trial against Goth and several other SS officers. The Road to Rescue stands as a historically authentic testimony of one man’s unparalleled courage, wit, defiance, and bittersweet victory over the Nazi regime.
Il Lamento dell'immigrato
by Mois Benarroch Martina Fattore"Il lamento dell'immigrato" è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1994 in ebraico. La poesia di Benarroch è stata tradotta in una dozzina di lingue, incluse l'urdu e il cinese. Julia Uceda considera la sua poesia detentrice della memoria del mondo, mentre Jose Luis Garcia Martin ritiene che i suoi versi vadano ben oltre la poesia e che siano dei veri e propri documenti. ""Se dovessi scegliere qualcuno da nominare per il Premio Nobel, sicuramente concorrerebbe anche lui." Klaus Gerken, editore di Ygdrasil. La sua fama cresce constantemente e i suoi libri sono stati pubblicati in Spagna, Israele e Stati Uniti d'America. Benarroch è stato insignito del Prime Minister Literary Prize nel 2008 e del Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize nel 2012.
Brown Scarf Blues
by Mois Benarroch Steven CapsutoReeling from the deaths of two loved ones, an Israeli writer travels to Spain--his ancestors' homeland--for a conference of Sephardic Jews. In Seville, he finds a scarf that comforts him for thirteen days. Then, just as suddenly, it vanishes in Madrid. For the writer, the scarf becomes a symbol of loss: of goodbyes to things and people. He says farewell to the dead, and to all the people he never became and never will be. But just as he is letting go of his dreams, he meets a group of Spanish Jews who were lost in the Amazon for 150 years, whom he once wrote about in a novel. Did he merely make them up? Can imagination shape reality? Narrated through many voices and viewpoints, Brown Scarf Blues is a novella that spans countries--Morocco, Brazil, the United States and Israel--and languages--Hebrew, French, Spanish, Portuguese and especially Haketia: the Moroccan Judeo-Spanish speech that hangs on like a living-dead remnant of a vanished culture... the words and expressions left behind by a lost world.
Disfarçado: Operação Julie – por dentro da história
by Stephen Bentley PAULA RIBEIRO F F DA ROCHAA Operação Julie ainda é hoje o ponto de referência para todas as operações secretas britânicas e treinamento. Em 2011, a BBC afirmou que essa operação policial massiva e única foi o início da guerra contra as drogas. Stephen Bentley foi um dos quatro detetives secretos envolvidos na Operação Julie, uma das maiores apreensões de drogas do mundo. Juntamente com seu parceiro disfarçado, ele se infiltrou na gangue que produzia cerca de 90% do LSD do mundo e descobriu um plano para importar grandes quantidades de cocaína boliviana para o Reino Unido. O submundo conhecia o autor como Steve Jackson. Como ele conseguiu se infiltrar nas duas gangues? Ele teve que usar drogas e como "viver uma mentira" o afetou? Descubra as respostas e entre na mente de Steve Jackson, detetive disfarçado. "A perspectiva de um insider sobre o tráfico de drogas, contada com charme, inteligência e, às vezes, humor, por um homem talentoso, singularmente qualificado para contar a verdadeira história." - Excerto de revisão
Un'avventura nel mondo della cucina
by Sergio Casado Rodríguez Tizziani CarloSituazioni ed esperienze meturate nel mondo della cucina, viaggiando in diverse città europee. Il mondo della ristorazione visto da dentro con prospettiva autobiografica.
Uma Aventura na Cozinha
by Sergio Casado RodríguezEstamos habituados a ler e ouvir histórias ou até ver filmes de pessoas de êxito, sendo assim também no mundo da cozinha, como em qualquer ramo do saber. Com homens e mulheres audazes, inteligentes, valentes... Pessoalmente, gosto bastante deste tipo de histórias, tanto de as ver em filmes, como ler as suas biografias. Estas pessoas inspiram-nos, levam-nos a sonhar e a refletir em como podemos ascender a ser assim, embora no fundo saibamos que é quase impossível alcançá-lo. Não obstante, diversas vezes sinto falta de histórias menores, mais próximas e empáticas, histórias de pessoas como nós, que vivenciaram pequenas experiências, que podem ser igualmente inspiradoras, instrutivas ou simplesmente divertidas. Sendo por isso, que neste livro não existirão grandes personagens, nem sequer estrelas Michelín. Espero então, além de entreter, dar a minha visão do mundo da cozinha, induzir as pessoas a lutarem para alcançarem os seus sonhos, porque todas as histórias valem a pena, todas elas escondem grandes ensinamentos e pequenos grandes momentos que nos podem encher de realização e superação. Estamos habituados a ler e ouvir histórias ou até ver filmes de pessoas de êxito, sendo assim também no mundo da cozinha, como em qualquer ramo do saber. Com homens e mulheres audazes, inteligentes, valentes... Pessoalmente, gosto bastante deste tipo de histórias, tanto de as ver em filmes, como ler as suas biografias. Estas pessoas inspiram-nos, levam-nos a sonhar e a refletir em como podemos ascender a ser assim, embora no fundo saibamos que é quase impossível alcançá-lo. Não obstante, diversas vezes sinto falta de histórias menores, mais próximas e empáticas, histórias de pessoas como nós, que vivenciaram pequenas experiências, que podem ser igualmente inspiradoras, instrutivas ou simplesmente divertidas. Sendo por isso, que neste livro não existirão grandes personagens, nem sequer estrelas Michelín. Espero ent
All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
by Erin Lee Carr“A documentary filmmaker and daughter of the late, great New York Times columnist David Carr celebrates and wrestles with her father’s legacy in a raw, redemptive memoir.”—O: The Oprah Magazine (The Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in 2019)“A breathtaking read . . . a testimony equal parts love and candor. David would have had it no other way.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, bestselling author of Between the World and Me Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness to let the world show you things that you play back as you grow as an artist. Talent is cheap. Me: OK I will ponder these things. I am a Carr. Dad: That should matter quite a bit, actually not the name but the guts of what that name means. A celebrated journalist, bestselling author (The Night of the Gun), and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he suffered a fatal collapse in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, at age twenty-seven an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence—1,936 items in total—in search of comfort and support. What started as an exercise in grief quickly grew into an active investigation: Did her father’s writings contain the answers to the question of how to move forward in life and work without her biggest champion by her side? How could she fill the space left behind by a man who had come to embody journalistic integrity, rigor, and hard reporting, whose mentorship meant everything not just to her but to the many who served alongside him? All That You Leave Behind is a poignant coming-of-age story that offers a raw and honest glimpse into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and a father. Through this lens, Erin comes to understand her own workplace missteps, existential crises, and relationship fails. While daughter and father bond over their mutual addictions and challenges with sobriety, it is their powerful sense of work and family that comes to ultimately define them. This unique combination of Erin Lee Carr’s earnest prose and her father’s meaningful words offers a compelling read that shows us what it means to be vulnerable and lost, supported and found. It is a window into love, with all of its fierceness and frustrations.“Thank you, Erin, for this beautiful book. Now I am going to steal all of your father’s remarkable advice and tell my kids I thought of it.”—Judd Apatow
Empire: The Life and Legacy of Pioneering Publishing Magnate: The House that John H. Johnson Built
by Margena A. ChristianAfrican-American stories were overlooked by mainstream media until John H. Johnson showed the world the value of black life. In his magazines EBONY and JET, the publisher and businessman presented never-before-told accounts and used captivating, memorable images to share stories of black people. Margena A. Christian conducts extensive archival research, drawing upon rare sources and a personal decade-long relationship as an employee under the direct tutelage of Johnson. She meticulously constructs the complex story of what made the founder of these magazines become one of history's greatest publishers and businessmen. He went on to become the first black person named to the Forbes 400 richest Americans and amassed an empire, ranging from publishing, cosmetics, travel, radio stations, TV shows, hair care products, and the world's largest traveling fashion show.
Viatge al país dels blancs
by Ousman UmarL'odissea d'un jove que va arriscar la seva vida per un futur millor. Em dic Ousman Umar. Sé que vaig néixer un dimarts, no sé de quin mes ni de quin any, perquè això a la meva tribu tant se val. Vaig créixer a la sabana africana. Cada dia caminava set quilòmetres per anar a l'escola. Tenia una vida feliç i senzilla, fins que un dia mentre jugava vaig veure un avió al cel. Des d'aquell moment vaig voler ser pilot, enginyer, tot menys negre. La curiositat per conèixer el món em va empènyer a iniciar un viatge sense retorn cap al País dels Blancs. Quan tenia tretze anys vaig travessar el Sàhara a peu i el mar en patera. I vaig veure morir pel camí la majoria dels meus companys de viatge, entre ells el meu millor amic. Al cap de quatre anys d'haver iniciat aquella gesta, vaig arribar finalment a Espanya i, després de passar uns quants mesos dormint al carrer, una família em va acollir. La primera nit que vaig dormir a casa seva, tot i les comoditats i el benestar que sentia, em vaig posar a plorar com un nen. Per què havia patit tant? Per què tanta lluita? Què havia fet malament? Ara necessito explicar aquesta història, fins que ja no hi hagi més històries com aquesta per explicar.
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II
by Belton Y. Cooper"Cooper saw more of the war than most junior officers, and he writes about it better than almost anyone. . . . His stories are vivid, enlightening, full of life--and of pain, sorrow, horror, and triumph."--STEPHEN E. AMBROSE From his Foreword"In a down-to-earth style, Death Traps tells the compelling story of one man's assignment to the famous 3rd Armored Division that spearheaded the American advance from Normandy into Germany. Cooper served as an ordnance officer with the forward elements and was responsible for coordinating the recovery and repair of damaged American tanks. This was a dangerous job that often required him to travel alone through enemy territory, and the author recalls his service with pride, downplaying his role in the vast effort that kept the American forces well equipped and supplied. . . . [Readers] will be left with an indelible impression of the importance of the support troops and how dependent combat forces were on them."--Library Journal"[DEATH TRAPS] FILLS A CRITICAL GAP IN WW2 LITERATURE. . . . IT'S A TRULY UNIQUE AND VALUABLE WORK."--G.I. JournalFrom the Paperback edition.
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
by Charles C. MannFrom the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.
The Art of the Wasted Day
by Patricia HamplA spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydreamThe Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay. Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love--and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life. The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go.
Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life's Wars
by James Hatch Christian D'AndreaFrom former special ops Navy SEAL senior chief; master naval parachutist (four Bronze Stars with Valor, Navy and Marine Corps Medal recipient, etc.); fighter in 150 missions (Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Africa); expert military dog trainer and handler whose SEAL dogs were partners and medal winners--a fierce, moving tale of a return from hell, being badly wounded on a special ops mission that ended his two-decades-long military career, his searing recovery, and the struggle to live life off the speeding train of war.In Touching the Dragon, James Hatch, Naval Special Warfare Operator, expert commando, tactical master in deadly operations, twenty-four years in service to his country (he enlisted in the Army National Guard at age seventeen), writes of his years of military service, from joining the Navy at eighteen, becoming a SEAL, to his joining the Naval Special Warfare Development group ("If I died in a gunfight, it would be doing something I loved"). He writes of the harrowing secret missions (Iraq, Bosnia, Africa); and of the fateful final mission (Afghanistan), that left him badly shot (a bullet exploding through his femur and out the back of his leg) as Hatch and his SEAL team crew were attempting to rescue a rogue soldier--Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl, who deserted his post, was captured by Al Qaida and Taliban militants, and was set to be smuggled to a part of the world where Americans could never reach him. Hatch writes of the horrific wound to his leg; of having no choice but to end his military career; of coming home to the country he'd spent his life defending; of the ordeal of getting well physically (eighteen surgeries; twelve months of recovery; learning to walk again); of having to find out who he was as a man apart from the chaotic world of special operations missions; of days and months of despair, alcoholism, the pull toward suicide; and of finally, through love of family, friends, soldiers, and his specially trained military dogs, touching the dragon, of going through the fear of feeling unfit for society, of finding a purpose and a way back to life.
Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See?
by Chris Ferrie<p>A scientific twist on a beloved children's classic that's sure to delight both parent and child! <p>Scientist, Scientist, Who do you see? I see Marie Curie in her laboratory! <p>The adored children's classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear gets a nerdy makeover in this picture book by the #1 bestselling science author for kids! Young readers will delight at taking a familiar text and poking fun at it all while learning about scientists and how they changed the world. Back matter includes brief biographical information of the featured scientists. This sweet parody is the perfect inspiration for scientists of all ages! <p>Full of scientific rhyming fun, Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See? features appearances by some of the world's greatest scientists! From Albert Einstein to Marie Curie and Ahmed Zewail, from Charles Darwin to Chien-Shiung Wu and Grace Hopper... and more!</p>
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael Patrick MacdonaldA breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty.
Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith HallMeredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. When he is twenty-one, her lost son finds her. Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father-in her own father's hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall's parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. What sets Without a Map apart is the way in which loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom. "Meredith Hall boldly charts one of the bravest of stories, the journey from disrupted youth up through that most tricky and forbidding territory, the family circle. Bone-honest and strong in its every line, this work of memory is a remarkably deep retrieval of its times and souls, thereby reflecting our own. " -Ivan Doig, author of Heart Earth "This is an unusually elegant memoir that feels as though its been carved straight out of Meredith Hall's capacious heart. The story is riveting, the words perfect. It is rare to read a work that manages to be at once artful and compelling, which for me best describes Meredith Hall's debut work. She is an author who deserves to be widely read. Few people write like this. Fewer still have the courage to live like this – without the comfort of any cliché. " -Lauren Slater, author of Opening Skinner's Box, Prozac Diary, and Welcome to My Country "Meredith Hall's long journey from an inexcusably betrayed girlhood to the bittersweet mercies of womanhood is a triple triumph-of survival; of narration; and of forgiveness. Her portrait of her own empty bravado collapsing into total psychological and geographical dislocation is one of the most harrowing passages I've ever read. The subsequent turn toward memory and honesty is agonized, profound, and salvific. Without a Map is a masterpiece. " -David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K and God Laughs and Plays "Meredith Hall is like a geiger counter ticking along the radium edge of these recent decades. She gives us self as expert-witness-Without a Map is smart, sharp, and redemptively honest. " -Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies and My Sky Blue Trades "Meredith Hall's story of loss, shame, and betrayal is also a story of joy, reconnection, and survival; each memory takes us deep to the marrow of sorrow and celebration. A work of extraordinary beauty and grace. " -Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country "Without A Map tells an important and perceptive story about loss, about aloneness and isolation in a time of great need, about a life slowly coming back into focus and the calm that finally emerges. Meredith Hall is a brave new writer who earns our attention. " -Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Meredith Hall's magnificent book held me in its thrall from the moment I began reading the opening pages. WITHOUT A MAP is a fluid, beautifully-written, hard-won piece of work that belongs on the shelf next to the best modern memoirs, and yet is in a category all its own. It is a moving example of a difficult life redeemed first through examination, then reflection, then finally-like a rough stone polished until it gleams-into a genuine work of art. " -Dani Shapiro, aut
Faubourg Psychédélique: David Bowie et le Beckenham Arts Lab
by Mary FinniganCeci est la traduction française de Psychédélic Suburbia - traduit par Faubourg Psychédélique, écrit par Mary Finnigan, relatant sa relation avec le chanteur David Bowie et les premières étapes de sa carrière à Beckenham (banlieue sud de Londres) avant qu’il ne devienne une des pop stars mondiales le plus emblématiques.
Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
by Daniel J. FlynnIn recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong. November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transformed into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian” and a “fascist.” In life, Harvey Milk faked hate crimes, outed friends, and falsely claimed that the US Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and a US Navy ship named after him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love.
El Vuelo de Violetta: Kahbia
by David Richard BeasleyUna joven birmana escapa de los japoneses en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Los ejércitos japoneses invadieron una Birmania casi indefensa en 1942, enviando a decenas de miles de personas a huir por las montañas hacia la India. Ellos gobernaron a los birmanos restantes, ante quienes alardearon de liberarlos del dominio británico, con arrogancia y brutalidad. "El vuelo de Violeta" narra las experiencias de una joven anglo-birmana y sus parientes creciendo felices bajo los británicos y su terrible experiencia escapando de los japoneses, viviendo bajo la ocupación o luchando en la resistencia. Las batallas ganadas por los ejércitos aliados que salen de la India para retomar Birmania en 1944-45 son vistas a través de los ojos de los oficiales japoneses, que ven a sus ejércitos sufrir a su vez las agonías de la derrota en la guerra. Las semillas del fascismo sembradas por Aung San y su Ejército de la Independencia de Birmania uniéndose a la invasión japonesa, hasta desencantarse, crecieron como una hierba que envenenó a la sociedad birmana contra los anglo-birmanos y otras etnias, impidiendo su florecimiento con una dictadura de puño de hierro.
Slim (edición actualizada): Biografía Política Del Mexicano Más Rico Del Mundo
by Diego Enrique Osorno¿Puede uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo ser una buena persona? «La biografía más completa de Carlos Slim hasta la fecha. Osorno narra también partes desconocidas de la historia familiar del magnate: el hambre de éxito del multimillonario no muestra signos de disminuir con la edad» The Guardian «Un recorrido analítico por distintas etapas de la historia de México: desde la llegada de los ancestros de Carlos Slim durante la Revolución Mexicana, hasta los primeros años del siglo XXI con su nombramiento como hombre más rico del mundo» Gatopardo «Mientras cava implacablemente en busca de cualquier suciedad que se pueda encontrar, la biografía de Osorno también pinta la imagen de un emprendedor digno y decidido, un genio matemático y un obstinado trabajador, que mantiene cierta humildad incluso cuando su riqueza superó los 77 mil millones de dólares» Time «Osorno descubre a un millonario que gusta de leer sobre los genios de la economía y los negocios, un hombre austero que conduce su propio coche por las ruidosas calles de la Ciudad de México, un defensor de su familia y un empresario con posicionamientos políticos ambiguos» El País
Cuatro poetas en guerra (Españaescrita Ser. #Vol. 8)
by Ian GibsonAntonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca y Miguel Hernández son cuatro de las mejores voces poéticas de la España del siglo XX. Unidos no solo por su absoluta dedicación a las letras, sino por su lealtad a la Segunda República, enarbolaron una defensa acendrada de la libertad y la democracia. El hispanista Ian Gibson realiza un recorrido por las intensas vidas de estos grandes poetas, con su compromiso republicano -y las nefastas consecuencias que tuvo en sus vidas- como eje central. Cuatro pilares fundamentales de la sociedad española del siglo XX silenciados con la muerte y el exilio. Cuatro poetas que lo dieron todo y a quienes la España de charanga y pandereta se encargó de destruir.
Os Segredos do Grande Maestro: Entre A Música e A Maçonaria
by Paolo NutiGiacomo Puccini e a maçonaria: que ligação há entre um dos maiores compositores italianos de todos os tempos e essa controversa associação? Em uma erudita mescla entre romance e autobriografia, o autor junta anedotas pessoais a registros históricos, levantando dúvidas, colocando interrogações, e acompanhando o leitor em uma fascinante viagem para descobrir os segredos do Grande Maestro.
A Viagem de Megan: Um Guia Espiritual, Uma Tigresa Fantasma e Uma Mãe Assustadora! (A Série Megan #11)
by Owen JonesMegan viaja para o exterior nas férias com os pais pela primeira vez... Um guia espiritual, uma tigresa fantasma e uma mãe assustadora! Megan é uma adolescente de 13 anos que percebe ter poderes sobrenaturais que os outros não têm. No começo, ela tentou buscar a ajuda da mãe, mas encontrou consequências desastrosas e aprendeu a mantê-los em segredo. No entanto, algumas pessoas se ofereceram para ajudar e um animal mostrou uma amizade especial, apesar de nenhum deles estar “vivo” no sentido normal da palavra. Eles já faleceram. Megan tem três amigos: Wacinhinsha, seu Guia Espiritual que havia sido um Nativo Americano Sioux em sua última vida na Terra; seu avô materno, o vovô e uma enorme tigresa siberiana chamada Grrr. Wacinhinsha possui um vasto conhecimento sobre assuntos espirituais, psíquicos e paranormais; seu avô é um “morto” novato e Grrr só pode falar a língua dos tigres, como já se deve imaginar. A maior da sua fala, é claro, é ininteligível para os humanos. Em “A Viagem de Megan”, a família sai de férias para o exterior e Megan fica obcecada com o lugar. Ao voltar para casa, ela se faz de boba fingindo ser o que não é e se exibindo. No entanto, sua mãe e alguns outros a trazem de volta à realidade. Wacinhinsha lhe dá uma explicação para sua recente paixão por seu destino de férias.
Undercover: Operazione Julie - La Verità
by Stephen BentleySi dice che l'Operazione Julie sia la >. Questa è la storia vera di uno di solo quattro detective sotto-copertura dell'Operazione Julie. L'Operazione Julie è ancora oggi il punto di riferimento per tutte le operazioni sotto-copertura e gli addestramenti britannici. Nel 2011 la BBC ha affermato che questa grandiosa ed unica operazione di polizia fu l'inizio della guerra contro le droghe. Stephen Bentley era uno dei quattro detective sotto-copertura coinvolti nell'Operazione Julie, uno dei più grandi colpi antidroga del mondo. Assieme al suo partner sotto-copertura, si infiltrò nella gang producente circa il 90% dell'LSD nel mondo e scoprì una trama per importare copiose quantità di cocaina boliviana nel Regno Unito. La malavita conobbe l'autore come Steve Jackson. Come riuscì ad infiltrarsi con successo nelle due gang? Dovette fare uso di droghe? E come lo influenzò >? Scoprite le risposte ed entrate nella mente di Steve Jackson, detective sotto-copertura. Un affascinante, diretto, onesto resoconto di un insider che in realtà era un outsider... un racconto di avidità oltraggiosa, lussuria, violenza e prodezza di pochi uomini che avevano un obiettivo ammirevole e di come lo gestirono. Una prospettiva dall'interno del traffico di droga, raccontata con fascino, intelligenza e in certi casi con umorismo da un uomo talentuoso, particolarmente qualificato a raccontare la storia vera, che più di tutti era un decente uomo onesto. Semplicemente una bella lettura. - Estratto di una recensione.
Uccidere il Prudente. Vita di Pericle, stratega di Atene.
by Borja Loma BarrieRomanzo storico. Biografia. Su Pericle, governante di Atene, costruttore del Partenone, di origine oligarchica ma avversario della sua classe. Storia della Grecia, di Sparta e di Atene. Le Guerre del Peloponneso. Le Guerre Persiane. Le riforme di Solone. L'ostinazione per la democrazia. L'ostilità e le lotte sociali tra ricchi e poveri. Gli ateniesi, rosi dai debiti, decidono di trasformarsi in schiavi per sopravvivere.