Titoli in Politica

Big Brother is watching you...1984 is the year in which it happens.The world is divided into three great powers: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each perpetually at war with the other. Throughout Oceania 'The Party' rules by the agency of four ministries whose power is absolute and where every...

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind...

C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war...

One of ‘the heirs to John le Carré’ The Times ‘A tremendous achievement’ WILLIAM BOYD ‘Behold the new Golden Age of Spy Kings’ Sunday Times To betray, you must first belong… In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was...

Il Prigioniero, il capo del più importante partito cristiano d’Italia, dopo essere stato catturato da uomini che minacciano la sua vita riceve in cella la visita di Satana, che lo tenterà nel corso di un viaggio notturno alla scoperta del futuro del paese. Il Presidente, espressione luciferina del potere che non tramonta mai, cerca di reagire ai sospetti di collusione con la mafia in seguito all’arresto di uno dei suoi uomini chiave. L’Esule, scappato in Tunisia dopo che gli scandali di corruzione hanno travolto la sua carriera politica, riflette, in limina mortis, sulla propria caduta.

En pleno siglo XV, un grupo de conspiradores intentaron matar a Lorenzo de Medici y a su hermano Giuliano en la catedral de Florencia. Los asesinos querían que los hermanos murieran a la vez para evitar cualquier tipo de represalias en el futuro. Los protagonistas de esta historian llevan por nombre Lorenzo de Medici, el duque de Urbino y Sixto IV, y los papeles secundarios son interpretados por Leonardo Da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Piero della Francesca y Angelo Poliziano.

La insurrecta narra la emocionante vida de quien fuera la esposa de Mariano Abasolo y una de las mujeres más valientes y apasionadas de su tiempo. Una vez más, Guillermo Barba nos ofrece una estupenda novela de intrigas donde se funden la historia y el suspenso para narrar un pasaje, tan...

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States, and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes at a great cost. The United States is ruled by a fascist green police state, and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them is an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma.

In remote pockets of the Third World, a deadly virus is quietly sweeping through impoverished farming villages with frightening speed and potency. Meanwhile, in Washington, a three-word message left in a safe-deposit box may be the key to stopping the crisis - if, that is, Charles Mallory, a private intelligence contractor and former CIA operative, can decipher the puzzle before time runs out. What Mallory begins to discover are the traces of a secret war with a bold objective - to create a new, technologically advanced society.

Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie with each other to exert influence on his behalf - even Palliser’s own wife, Lady Glencora.

In the fourth of the ‘Palliser’ stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn’s return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey. The situation is complicated by the presence of two women in his life: his old flame Lady Laura, whose estranged husband is determined to destroy Phineas’s reputation, and the wealthy and enigmatic widow, Madame Max.

War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history. Here are the universal themes of love and hate, ambition and despair, youth and age, expressed with a swirling vitality which makes the story as accessible today as it was when it was first published in 1869.

Il protagonista del racconta, che è un uomo anziano e parla in prima persona, ad una festa di matrimonio ottiene una deroga alla sua ferrea dieta ed esagera con il vino e il cibo. Il vino, invece di dargli allegria, lo renderà irascibile e ridicolo. Oltre a litigare con parenti amici, il pasto e il vino troppo abboondante gli causeranno insonnia e incubi.

Novembre 1970. La Camera dei deputati sta per approvare una delle norme più tormentate della nostra storia: la legge sul divorzio. In Italia, infatti, fino ad allora, il matrimonio era "indissolubile". Il giovane dott. Ciro Amendola, appena assunto al Ministero, segue direttamente questa vicenda, a lui molto cara per ragioni familiari e di passione sportiva. A suo tempo, aveva infatti seguito le vicissitudini amorose di Fausto Coppi, che non aveva potuto vivere liberamente la travolgente passione d'Amore con la sua Giulia, la Dama Bianca, soltanto perché erano entrambi sposati.

On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris. This chance encounter ignites a close friendship between the two Englishmen, one that draws Bradshaw into the seedier quarters of the city. Here, Norris runs a dubious import–export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. Yet there is something sinister about Norris himself. Bradshaw’s new companion is a man of contradictions: heavily in debt but extraordinarily lavish, excessively polite but sexually deviant.

Det börjar med en fotnot. En obetydlig rad i en statlig ekonomirapport får SVT-journalisten Anna Berg att stanna upp. Siffrorna verkar stämma. Formuleringarna är korrekta. Ändå är det något som inte går ihop. När hon börjar jämföra versioner av samma dokument upptäcker hon små...

Это последняя книга Джорджа Оруэлла, он опубликовал ее в 1949 году, за год до смерти. Роман-антиутопия прославил автора и остается золотым стандартом жанра. Действие происходит в Лондоне, одном из главных городов тоталитарного супергосударства Океания. Пугающе детальное описание общества, основанного на страхе и угнетении, служит фоном для одной из самых ярких человеческих историй в мировой литературе.

Em abril de 1905, 1033 coreanos ― ladrões e membros da realeza, sacerdotes e soldados, órfãos e famílias inteiras ― embarcaram rumo ao México em busca de novas vidas. Ao chegar lá, foram obrigados a trabalhar como escravos e acabaram no fogo cruzado da violenta Revolução Mexicana...

Nach dem sensationellen Debüt „Hast du uns endlich gefunden" befasst sich Edgar Selge erneut mit den dunkelsten Jahren der deutschen, der eigenen Geschichte und macht daraus große Literatur. In seinem neuen Roman stößt der Erzähler, Edgar, auf das Schicksal eines Jungen, der während der Blockade Leningrads durch die deutsche Wehrmacht verhungert ist. Jura hat ein Tagebuch hinterlassen, das Edgar immer wieder liest, sodass er bald glaubt, den Jungen zu kennen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Austausch über Jugend, Träume, Literatur, Mütter, Abschied, Fremdheit und Nähe...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Conclave, Precipice and the acclaimed Cicero trilogy comes a sweeping new political thriller about the general who built an empire—and paid the ultimate price. Agrippa is Robert Harris’s monumental return to the world of...