Titoli in Politica

In the 1980s, the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030, André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives.

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel.

Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New Left. Hugh MacLennan weaves a complex and story of two generations in conflict. Originally published in 1967, Return of the Sphinx is something of a sequel to the more optimistic Two Solitudes and reflects MacLennan's disenchantment with the world in general and the apparently intractable French-English debate in Canada.

Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of the aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty, that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. An informer for the Zionist state, his stupidity, candor, and cowardice make him more of a victim than a villain; but in a series of tragicomic episodes, he is gradually transformed from a disaster-haunted, gullible collaborator into a Palestinian—no hero still, but a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness.

Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation. Years later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune.

The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom; her best friend, Mel, is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s.

Standing over the body of a Supreme Court nominee, Lieutenant Sam Holland is hip-deep in another high-profile murder case. That she was one of the last people to see Julian Sinclair alive only complicates things even more. With her relationship with Senator Nick Cappuano heating up, they’re attracting a lot of unwanted media attention and blinding flashbulbs. The pressure is on for Sam to find Sinclair’s killer, but a new lead in her father’s unsolved shooting puts her in unexpected danger.

Washington, DC, Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career - and her confidence - after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O’Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed and she’s assigned to the case. Things get complicated when she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O’Connor’s friend and chief of staff...and the man she had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case.

Published in 1888 to immediate popularity, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The novel’s protagonist, aristocrat Julian West, falls into a deep, hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find a very different Boston from the one he knows. In Dr. Leete he finds a guide who explains the humane and efficient society in which he now finds himself - its transformation made possible by political and technological advances.

Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at their family estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative.

En Hualacato, pueblito ficticio del noroeste argentino, los habitantes perdieron todas sus libertades. Nabu, un "percusionista" que se escuda en su obligación de cumplir órdenes, fue designado como el salvador de la familia Aballay, a quien estos deben aceptar de buen grado para evitar represalias. Cuando les prohíbe la comunicación entre los propios miembros de la familia, los Aballay se ven forzados a crear un código secreto de sonidos, señas y gestos para lograr sobrevivir a los castigos físicos y psicológicos.

Dans la Famille sans nom (et sans liberté dans son destin), l’auteur Jules Verne nous entraîne dans ces familles qui ont vu leurs rêves d’autonomie politique brisés par la force coloniale britannique. Au Québec, référendums perdus, répression de la crise d’octobre 1970 allumée par le Front de Libération du Québec, les Patriotes de 1837: même combat, même déception. Un livre au cœur des colères du Québec.

Tot comença amb un robatori d’uns papers del Monestir de Sant Cugat mentre a Matadepera s’està debatent sobre el procés sobiranista, a primera vista que podrien tenir en comú els afers de l’Església amb la política?, potser molt o potser res, però i si afegim un descendent del Compte Borrell, un milionari recalcitrant amb set de diners i poder, un retrat força cru sobre les altes esferes de la societat catalana, i si a més hi afegim embolics de faldilles, assassinats i segrestos.

"Ciudad Revientacráneos" es un mazazo a la conciencia del lector, un tajo en su sensibilidad y una buena patada en su entrepierna. Un banquero especializado en operaciones fraudulentas elabora un plan para cargarse el corrupto sistema bancario desde el interior. Sin embargo, en lo más profundo de los archivos del banco le espera un monstruoso descubrimiento cuyas implicaciones podrían acabar con todo el planeta. Una trama tan retorcida como la realidad que le valió a su autor el Premio Wonderland 2016.

Al humilde cabo Juan Castro le importa más encontrar a su mula preferida que ganar la guerra. Por eso sale tras ella y, poco después de atravesar la línea de frente, se ve envuelto en un episodio tan peligroso como hilarante que, contra su voluntad, lo va a convertir en un héroe de guerra. La mula es una atrevida desmitificación de la guerra civil. Un personaje pícaro y tierno para desmitificar la guerra.

"Más cornadas da el hambre" es la historia de unos aprendices a torero, particularmente de Luis y sus dificultades ante la competencia y el poder corrupto de los empresarios e intermediarios; lo que deben hacer para poder presentarse en plazas de importancia y así convertirse en figuras del toreo.

1945, un agente secreto salta en paracaídas sobre los Alpes para ejecutar una misión decisiva en territorio nazi. Su éxito o fracaso marcará para siempre la victoria de los Aliados. Nacido en Alemania, Fred Mayer fue testigo del ascenso de los nazis al poder. Cuando tenía 16 años, él y su familia, de origen judío, pudieron huir a Estados Unidos justo antes de que Hitler ordenara cerrar las fronteras. Después del ataque a Pearl Harbor, intentó enlistarse en el ejército de su nuevo país y lo rechazaron por su nacionalidad alemana.

Following the worst terrorist attacks in American history on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush pledged to bring those responsible to justice, especially the mastermind, Osama bin Laden. After failing to capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan, George W. Bush shifted his attention and that of his country to Saddam Hussein and Iraq, neither of which had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks (as history has proven).

Omar sale de su escondite debajo del camastro y encuentra el cadáver de Catalina, su querida; encima, yace a su vez el cuerpo aún humeante de quien en rigor era su novio: el Mariachito, líder del inservible pero pudiente sindicato ferrocarrilero. Aún incrédulo de no ser el amante muerto, sabe que su única oportunidad de seguir vivo es su pasaporte español, por lo que decide huir a Madrid antes de que la venganza del Concho, perro guardián del occiso, lo alcance.

“Alltså när jag säger att det inte ska vara musik som visas på MTV eller ZTV, så menar jag att det inte ska vara modern musik. Förstår ni? Eller det kan vara modernt. Dragan, du till exempel. Vad lyssnar du på hemma?” “De e blandat, asså så.” “Ja, det förstår jag, men du lyssnar på nått från Jugoslavien kanske?” vädjade Carina.