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Un relato estremecedor, real y, al mismo tiempo, esperanzador. Mejor libro del año por Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, Bookforum y The New Yorker.Rachel Aviv solo tenía 6 años cuando, d

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year?Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday a

In a decade of researching and writing about crime, Simon Farquhar has met many of those professionally or personally affected by it. They all carry with them stories which the rest of the world has forgotten, but which to them remain unforgettable.Now five of the most extraordinary stories are being told, in full, for the first time. Retracing these historic tragedies with a modern eye, talking to surviving witnesses and police officers, exploring Home Office files and even previously unseen evidence, each investigation reveals powerful truths about those who take away a human life and those bereaved by their actions, while shining a new light on how our society has changedor still needs to change.Time is also taken to explore the untold stories of what happens after sentence is passed, after the press packs up and leaves, once the rest of the world has moved on. What becomes of the survivors, and what becomes of the criminals? What traces of these crimes still remain today?Exhaustively researched and sensitively written, these remarkable accounts are both harrowing and heartbreaking, presenting us with humanity at its cruellest, at its most vulnerable, at its most compassionate and at its most courageous.

In fact, two places called home For over sixty years, Alice Taylor has lived in the village of Innishannon, the gateway to West Cork. But her childhood was spent on a farm in North Cork, near the Kerry border, and her memories of that homeplace are vivid. Here, she recalls the sounds and smells of the farmyard, now silent; she visits her old national school, today in ruins, and her secondary, which has a new life as a cultural centre. She also writes of day-to-day life in her beloved Innishannon. With her trademark wit and wisdom, Alice takes us on a ramble around both of her homes, celebrating the places, the people and the special moments that have stayed in her heart over the years.

The Thames Torso Killer should, by rights, take precedence over Jack the Ripper as the worlds first and most notorious unidentified serial killer. He started to kill in Easter 1887, over a year before the Ripper, and his last murder was in September 1889, almost ten months after the Rippers last victim, Mary Jane Kelly. The Torso killer murdered and dismembered at least four women, in addition to the unborn child of the only victim who was identified.The authors profile of the killer reveals a detailed description of his trade, location and movements. She searches against that profile to find a known criminal with a similar modus operandi as the killer. Waterman and lighterman James Crick was sentenced to fifteen years for a single conviction of rape, although charges of rape and attempted murder were brought against him by two women. Cricks method of accosting the women, and transferring them between his skiff and other vessels, explains how the killer secured temporary secure premises for his attacks and dismemberment.Owing to its overlap with the Jack the Ripper series of murders, this book revisits many of the locations and personalities from that case. It compares and contrasts the Ripper and Torso killer, and the associated police investigations, while paying tribute to river policeman Detective Inspector John Regan.

«Porque no estrangeiro tudo é estranho.»Um irresistível romance, que mergulha em memórias de família e na Roma dos anos cinquenta.Via San Marino, 12: no rés do chão de um pequeno prédio amarelo, um m

A revealing and controversial exposé of international white-collar crime.Alexander Lebedev continues his investigation of banksters (gangster-bankers) scams which he started in his autobiographical book, Hunt the Banker. Each chapter examines a different sophisticated fraudulent scheme whereby stolen billions are laundered in offshore tax havens and deposited in secret accounts with the major UK and US banks, invested in shares of blue-chip companies, and converted into mansions, yachts, private jets, works of art and luxury goods.The topics covered include the cheating of their customers by supposedly respectable financial institutions in Europe and America, their complicity in laundering illegal proceeds of corrupt officials from all over the world, the financial pyramid schemes of Bernie Madoff and other mega-fraudsters, and black holes in the charity universe.Lebedev investigates the phenomenon of the symbiosis of dirty money and the latest information technologies of the blockchain, which threatens the global financial system with a cryptocurrency apocalypse, and he describes the degradation of political elites inebriated by biased mainstream media and fake news stories.

A chilling anthology of over 20 stories of cursed and haunted books; featuring malevolent second-hand books, cursed novelizations, unsettling journals and the end of the world.From award-winning authors including Eric LaRocca, Charlie Higson, Kim Newman and A. G. Slatter. Perfect for fans of When Things Get Dark.You find it hidden in the dark corner of the bookstore; tucked away in a box in the attic, desperate to be read; lurking on your bookshelf, never seen before. Crack the spine, feel the ancient pages. Read it aloud, if you dare.This anthology brings together horrors best and brightest to delve into the pages of cursed books, Eldtritch tomes and haunted bookstores.Featuring stories from:Adam CesareEric LaRoccaAlma KatsuZin RocklynAlyssa ColeNadia BulkinDanny RobinsIsy SuttieCharlie HigsonAngeline MorrisonA. G. SlatterPriya SharmaA. K. BenedictGuy AdamsLucie McKnight HardyRamsey CampbellAlison MooreLaura MauroReggie OliverAnna TaborskaKim Newman

Long before he became President of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams was a civil rights activist who took part in sit-ins, marches and protests in Northern Ireland. Along with hundreds of other men, Adams was interned on the Maidstone prison ship and in Long Kesh prison without charge or trial during the 1970s for his political activities. Women were interned also, in Armagh Womens Prison. Cage Eleven is his own account sometimes passionate, often humorous of life in Long Kesh. Written while Adams was a prisoner, the pieces were smuggled out for publication.This updated edition includes a new introduction and sketches drawn in Cage Eleven by another prisoner at the time, Danny Devenny.Offers a unique insight into the experience of internment an unrivalled representation of the resilience and humour that were as much a part of the life of the political prisoner as the adherence to a set of political ideals. Irish Herald

Um dos influenciadores e empresários mais importantes do Brasil relata a sua trajetória pessoal e política num livro polémico e impactante, que revisita eventos cruciais da história recente do Brasil e nos convida a uma reflexo transformadora.Ainda no final dos anos 2000, Felipe Neto tornou-se um fenomeno da internet. Os seus videos, marcados por um tom agressivo, mas bem-humorado, eram motivados pelo odio e criticavam indiscriminadamente bandas adolescentes, a saga Crepusculo, a corrupço, partidos politicos no poder. A formula correu bem, e ele tornou-se o primeiro YouTuber brasileiro a conquistar 1 milho de seguidores.No entanto, com a crescente aproximaço da extrema-direita ao poder e o recrudescimento de discursos de odio contra minorias, Felipe começou a questionar as suas convicçes. Onde se encaixava ele no espectro politico, ja que conceitos como "esquerda" e "direita" pareciam no o descrever inteiramente?Em Como enfrentar o odio, Felipe Neto retrata o seu processo de tomada de consciencia politica - semelhante ao de tantos milhes de pessoas - e o papel do odio na sua vida, primeiro como força motriz da sua carreira e, mais tarde, como elemento de que ele proprio se tornou vitima.Com uma perspetiva unica sobre as redes sociais e o seu papel na manipulaço dos utilizadores, e entrelaçando a sua historia com os principais acontecimentos politicos dos ultimos anos, o autor instiga-nos a resistir ativamente ao obscurantismo, ao retrocesso e a intolerancia.

Felipe Neto como você nunca leu.Ainda em 2009, Felipe Neto se tornou um fenômeno da internet no país. Seu conteúdo, agressivo mas bem-humorado, se direcionava inicialmente às tendências da época

"Sororidade. Uma palavra que vem sendo amplamente disseminada, e que carrega em si um significado muito potente: uma mulher apoiar a outra. Este livro é um estímulo a essa sororidade, e nos convida a refletir sobre a sociedade contemporanea, e os desafios adicionais enfrentados por nos mulheres no mercado de trabalho. E preciso falar sobre nossas dores, para que juntas possamos cura-las (e evita-las). Para alem das metas, prazos ou desafios na gesto de equipes, ainda enfrentamos o (bizarro) mundo corporativo, que por muitas decadas foi feito por homens para homens. Tomar consciencia ajuda a promover as transformaçes necessarias, e encoraja mulheres a ocuparem os espaços de poder, lado a lado com os homens. Cronicas de uma Executiva no Div e um convite a tomada de consciencia."Anna Nogueira & Vania Ferrari, Especialistas em carreira, escritoras e palestrantes

For almost forty years, Paul Williams has chronicled the life and crimes of some of Irelands most notorious godfathers, killers and thieves. In Crooks he brings his readers for a ride-along, taking us behind the scenes of his most notorious scoops, describing the run-ins hes had with unsavoury, dangerous criminals and the high price of his line of work. From pursuing the General to death threats from PJ The Psycho Judge, exposing the Westies and infiltrating the Kinahan cartel, Pauls extraordinary career doubles as an eyewitness account of the evolution of organized crime in Ireland.

Nahũ Kuikuro foi um dos primeiros indígenas do Alto Xingu a aprender português. Durante muitos anos, foi mediador das relações entre indígenas e não indígenas e teve papel decisivo na criação do Parq

Una historia personal que recorre la Europa de los últimos cien años a través de las vivencias y los recuerdos.«Deberíais haber pasado una guerra», respondían los abuelos siempre que alguien se queja

Un testimonio sobrecogedor sobre el horror nazi, la superación y expiación, de la mano de uno de los mayores expertos en psiquiatría del mundo. "Algo terrible está sucediendo: el pasado está haciendo

Filha de sobreviventes do Holocausto, Paulina Yaari compartilha nesta obra a sua origem, desde a história de seus pais, passando por sua infância e adolescência, permeada pelos ensinamentos judaicos

La fascinante historia del corsario Francis Drake nos lleva por la génesis de la ambición occidental por dominar el mundo.Este libro narra la épica historia de Francis Drake, el infame corsario y explorador ingles conocido por circunnavegar el mundo en una sola expedicion. A traves del testimonio inedito del piloto portugues Nuno da Silva, seguiremos el periplo de Drake desde las incursiones iniciales en el Mar del Caribe hasta el primer gran ataque al imperio español en America, con la Inglaterra de Shakespeare, la España de Cervantes, el Africa del comercio de esclavos y el America de las agonizantes poblaciones precolombinas como telon de fondo. Tambien atestiguaremos la politica global e imperial de los Estados en el siglo XVI, el nacimiento de los imperios y la genesis de la ambicion occidental de dominar el mundo.

This book is as sharp as razors, but it also pulses with a passionate, desperate, human urgency for truth and liberation. I am deeply grateful to have read it Elizabeth Gilbert As the daughter of two well-to-do English parents and the wife of a handsome, successful man, Oliver Radclyffe checked off every box - marriage, children (four), a white-picket fence surrounding a stately home in Connecticut and a golden retriever named Biscuit. But beneath the shiny veneer, Oliver was desperately trying to stay afloat - his hair was falling out in clumps, he couldnt eat and his mood swings often brought him to tears. And then, on an otherwise unremarkable afternoon, Oliver Radclyffe woke up and realized the life of a trapped housewife was not for him. In fact, Oliver had spent his entire life denying the deepest, truest parts of himself. Despite the challenges he faced, leaving a marriage and reintroducing himself to his children, Oliver realized there was no way for him to go back to the beautiful lie of his previous life. Not if he wanted to survive.Frighten the Horses is a trans mans coming of age story, about a housewife who initially comes out as a lesbian and tentatively, at first, steps into the world of queerness. With growing courage and the support of his newfound community, Oliver is finally able to face the question of his gender identity and become the man he is supposed to be.

The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife - instead she challenged the Roman patriarchy and sought to increase her influence in the face of determined opposition. Its rare to know so much about a particular Roman woman, but Fulvia was so despised by her male detractors that she was much written about. Acclaimed historian Jane Draycott has used original sources to piece together Fulvias life and sort fact from fiction, while also exploring the role of women in Roman society. Set during the chaotic period when Rome was violently transitioning from a republic to the dictatorship of the Roman Empire, this is an original and fascinating take on an endlessly popular period of history.