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Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost - the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013, 30 men and women from 18 countries - the crew of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise - decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic.

‘सत्य के प्रयोग’ महात्मा गांधी की आत्मकथा है। 

Matteo Salvini ha preso in mano la Lega quando era immersa negli scandali. Oggi invece la Lega è viva e vegeta, governa molte regioni del Settentrione, fa alleanze in Europa con movimenti in ascesa come quello di Le Pen in Francia. Come ha fatto un giovane dirigente, dalle maniere ruvide e dalla grande efficacia televisiva, spesso preso in giro per le sue felpe, a mantenere la barra dritta, diventare un leader di livello nazionale, assomigliare sempre di più a un'alternativa al renzismo e al grillismo, oltre i perimetri del centrodestra berlusconiano?

Libre, passionnée, courageuse, dotée d'un franc-parler connu aussi bien au Canada qu'en France, Denise Bombardier n'est pas de ces journalistes et écrivains qui laissent indifférent. Femme de combats, d'engagements, parce qu'elle ne craint ni la polémique ni les débats d'idées, elle s'est tracé un sillon médiatique et littéraire où s'impose une ligne directrice rare : le refus des compromis et des compromissions. Une force de caractère qui lui vient de loin, comme ces mémoires le décrivent avec vigueur, chaleur, tendresse, colères et humour aussi.

From one of America’s greatest nonfiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history. Brilliant, utterly self-absorbed and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites, he was both admired and detested. From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage.

In this compelling new biography, historian Niccol Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469-1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges - at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hard-nosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester.

For years she prayed for her mother to give birth to a son. She longed to be spared her destiny as Britain's future Queen. Her dream was to live in the country surrounded by children, dogs and horses. But Elizabeth did her duty, the young princess pledging before her people that she would dedicate her whole life to the service of Britain and the Commonwealth. She hoped that that day would be a long way off. It was not to be. Only 25 when she became Queen after the premature death of her father, King George Vl, Elizabeth has become the stuff of superlatives.

Em muitos aspectos, Pio XI e o “Duce” não poderiam ter personalidades mais diferentes. No entanto, havia muito em comum. Não acreditavam na democracia e abominavam o comunismo. Eram propensos a ataques de cólera e protegiam com todas as forças as regalias dos cargos que ocupavam. Além disso, contaram um com o outro para consolidar seus poderes e alcançar objetivos políticos.

As décadas de 1950 e 1960 renderam ao mundo grandes divas que figuram no imaginário popular: Jacqueline Kennedy, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly. Também foram a época da ascensão de homens que dariam origem a uma verdadeira mitologia envolvendo suas famílias: John e Robert Kennedy e Aristóteles Onassis.

Bill Shorten is the man who would be our next prime minister. David Marr is the nation's leading writer of political biography. Marr's Quarterly Essay profiles of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott ignited firestorms of media coverage and were national best sellers. In Quarterly Essay 59, he turns his enquiring mind toward Bill Shorten. This controversial and brilliant new essay looks at the making of Shorten.

Este audiolibro parte desde la historia de sus padres, la duda sobre la fecha de su nacimiento, su adolescencia, sus viajes, su lucha en Cuba, su trabajo diplomático y su aciago final en la sierra de Bolivia.

The general public has never heard of Jack O'Dell. But many of those who worked with him in the '50s and '60s consider him the unsung hero of the Black Freedom Movement. Victor Navasky, the longtime editor of The Nation and author of the acclaimed book Kennedy Justice, drawing on secret government files and interviews with O'Dell himself, seeks to correct that historical oversight.

In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion – a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians up for it? What does the new prime minister embody, if anything? Has the centre of the polity shifted, with the success of the Teals and the Greens? Where could – and should – the new government be ambitious?

The Change Maker catapults listeners into a world few will ever experience. Entertaining, fast-paced, and episodic, this memoir of an unconventional agent of change provides a lesson in the values of strategic thinking and responsible leadership found so wanting today. With self-deprecating humor and irony, Al Checchi chronicles the meteoric rise whereby his creativity, strategic thinking, and negotiating skills helped transform three major American institutions....

Em 2013, Edward Snowden, ex-analista da CIA (Agência Central de Inteligência) que também trabalhou como agente da NSA (Agência Nacional de Segurança), chocou o mundo ao desmascarar detalhes dos serviços secretos dos EUA. Snowden revelou que o governo dos Estados Unidos estava sigilosamente desenvolvendo meios para coletar todos os telefonemas, mensagens de texto e emails enviados em qualquer país do mundo.

La Medina, il canto di un muezzin che invita alla preghiera, il saluto dei pescatori, lo sguardo rivolto verso il mare, a scrutare l'orizzonte, forse nell'illusione di sentirsi più vicino all'Italia, meno solo. Le giornate di Bettino Craxi sono tutte uguali ad Hammamet, scivolano lentamente tra rabbia, speranza e rassegnazione che si rincorrono quasi fossero tessere impazzite di un mosaico da sistemare. L'icona di un vecchio sistema di potere sfugge al malessere che gli procura la mutata condizione esistenziale tenendosi occupato il più possibile.

La vida de las infantas Pilar y Margarita ha sido la de dos mujeres en busca de su lugar. Nacidas en el exilio, la primera en Cannes y la segunda en Roma, crecieron educadas en el amor a una patria que no conocían, entre los desvelos de un padre que soñaba con regresar a España como rey. Al igual que toda su familia, sufrieron las consecuencias de los deseos de Franco, quien alimentaba en vano las esperanzas de don Juan.

La periodista de Público Ana Pardo de Vera; la directora del programa 360 grados de ETB, Eider Hurtado; y el corresponsal de TV3 en Madrid, Albert Calatrava, se han unido para realizar un audiolibro sobre la figura del rey emérito y de su sucesor, Felipe VI, como nunca antes se ha realizado.

As an academic turned politician, the charismatic Slabbert brought unusual intellectual rigour to parliament, transforming the upstart Progressive Federal Party into a force that challenged the National Party government. But disillusioned by the paralysis of formal white politics and by the growing polarisation of South African society, he resigned in 1986 to explore democratic alternatives to the impasse into which the country had been led under apartheid.

John Bolton diente 519 Tage als Sicherheitsberater unter Donald Trump, zumeist "in dem Raum, in dem alles geschah". Mit beinahe täglichen Treffen zählte er zu den engsten Vertrauten des US-Präsidenten. Doch was er da sah, überraschte ihn. Er musste erfahren, dass es Trump gar nicht um das Wohl der Nation geht, sondern immer nur um Selbstinszenierung und darum, mit allen Mitteln wiedergewählt zu werden. In seinem Buch berichtet Bolton aus erster Hand über Trumps Verfehlungen, seine rechtswidrigen Aussagen und Handlungen.