Preventa de libros de Biografías

Un libro inspirador de una de las figuras más emblemáticas de la política contemporánea. "Hace algunos años, cuando Mujica fue electo presidente de Uruguay, el mundo descubrió a un político distinto. Vivia con muy poco, decia lo que pensaba y se expresaba mas como un filosofo que como un ex guerrillero reconvertido en politico. Desde muy joven se involucro intensamente en el activismo de un partido tradicional, vivio la decada de los años sesenta desde la trinchera revolucionaria, paso los setenta en la mas oscura de las catacumbas de la dictadura y en los noventa participo en el crecimiento y triunfo de las izquierdas hasta llegar a ser presidente de su pais. Mujica ha culminado su gobierno con altos indices de popularidad, resultados economicos y sociales elogiados en todo el mundo y medidas puntuales que pasaran a la historia. Lo ha hecho conjugando dos realidades antiteticas: una concepcion ideologica y un estilo de vida anarquista, con el cargo de presidente, que concentra el mayor poder del estado."Allan Percy

Una conferencia conmovedora y erudita sobreála lucha palestina y el poder de la narrativa. Pocos días antes de los ataques que Hamás llevó a cabo en la Franja de Gaza el 7 de octubre de 2023, Isabella Hammad pronunciaba en la Universidad de Columbia una conferencia en memoria de Edward W. Said en la que exponia con toda su crudeza el conflicto palestino-israeli y daba voz a la lucha palestina por la libertad.En un texto lleno de claridad moral y brillantez intelectual, Hammad nos lleva de la anagnorisis de Aristoteles, el procedimiento por el que dos personajes se reconocen, a la epifania de James Joyce, que interpreta como toma de conciencia, para concluir con una coda emocionada y combativa sobre un conflicto que sigue sembrando la destruccion.

The most unexpectedly touching book you will read this year Meet Ella is the tender and at times devastating account of how James Middleton s unbreakable bond with his dog Ella helped pull him out

Unforgettable Independent Fresh and gripping TelegraphTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking Hyde Park in London There they took 26 hostages including embassy staff visitors and three British citizens A tense six day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff while the SAS hitherto an organisation shrouded in secrecy laid plans for a daring rescue mission Operation Nimrod Drawing on unpublished source material exclusive interviews with the SAS and testimony from witnesses including hostages negotiators intelligence officers and the on site psychiatrist bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes readers on a gripping journey from the years and weeks of build up on both sides to the minute by minute account of the siege and rescue Recreating the dramatic conversations between negotiators and hostages the cutting edge intelligence work happening behind the scenes and the media frenzy around this moment of international significance The Siege is the remarkable story of what really

A work of non fiction but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel Question 7 sets the high water mark for what the genre of memoir can be Sunday Times There s so much in Flanagan s beautiful unclassifiable novel cum memoir That it is a masterpiece is without question Observer This is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows By way of H G Wells and Rebecca West s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place Through a hypnotic melding of dream history science and memory Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves I was fascinated troubled and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work I can think of nothing else quite like it Sarah Perry Mighty in its rage and tenderness his most momentous book yet Laura Cumming Spectacular It

From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany taking on some of history s best and most bizarre moments Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face off between Carthage and Rome Along the way you ll find the answers to questions like Who was Jesus s wife What would it have been like to live tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush Adolf Hitler Who are history s top 10 monkeys Was Henry V s great grandfather Edward III the biggest lad in British history But that s not all this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz So dust off your tricorne hat grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past The world s most successful history podcast Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age The Times

A necessary book and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty five days of warOn 24 February 2022 the first day of Russia s full scale invasion of Ukraine armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier Russian occupation of the plant had begun It would last thirty five days Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident We meet Valentyn Heiko the foreman who had also been there for the clean up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women s Day despite all odds Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook Gripping and unforgettable Chernobyl Roulette s

A Financial Times and Observer best summer read With its union of practicality and magic a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary longed for places are suddenly not so far away Not unreachable but present Held again in the hand and heart In her Edinburgh basement kitchen Caroline Eden recounts travels across Central Asia Turkey the Baltics and beyond using recipes souvenirs ingredients and imagination to provide routes back to distant lands and past adventures From late night baking as a way to Ukraine to the magic of Uzbekistan s wintertime melons once gifts fit for emperors and tsars this is a hauntingly honest memoir with the smell taste and preparation of food at its heart Cold Kitchen is an ode to the kitchen s extraordinary ability to tell human stories and transport us to faraway places and different times

Humane hilarious and heart breaking an enlightening and darkly comic window into the world of psychiatry Very funny and deeply sympathetic Really excellent HENRY MARSH author of Do No Harm This is honestly my dream book Both fascinating and bleakly funny FERN BRADY author of Strong Female Character Honest funny saddening and uplifting all rolled into one JO BRAND comedian and former psychiatric nurseA woman in a wedding dress arrives at the hospital looking for Harry Styles A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he s got a cure for coronavirus A depressed man hides his profession from his GP due to stigma Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are his patients Some of them are family One of them is him Unlocking the doors to the psych ward NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly on the padded wall account of medicine s most mysterious and controversial speciality Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist Are the solutions to people s messy lives really within medical school textbooks And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff hospital beds and any actual cures You Don t Have to Be Mad to Work Here explores these complicated questions from both sides of the docto

A gloriously evocative memoir of one family s journey from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv For fans of Claudia Roden Nigella Lawson and Stanley Tucci

Raymond Aron fue testigo privilegiado de las tragedias del siglo XX: la Revolución rusa, las dos guerras mundiales, el auge y caída del nazismo, la Guerra Fría y la amenaza nuclear. El filósofo y sociologo frances observo la realidad sin abandonar nunca sus convicciones, evitando tanto la ingenuidad como el fatalismo ciego. Asimismo, reconocio siempre el caracter central de la politica para la vida social, sobre todo en contextos adversos. Su optimismo es limitado, porque es un politico, sostiene Daniel Mahoney en Raymond Aron. Una introduccion, libro con el que invita a adentrarse en el pensamiento de uno de los intelectuales mas relevantes del ultimo tiempo. Al situar lo politico en el centro de su analisis, Aron no solo niega que caminemos hacia un destino inexorable en contraste con el profetismo apocaliptico de Marx y reivindica el valor de la libertad humana, sino que tambien nos recuerda que el mundo que habitamos es fragil y debe ser cuidado. Por eso, nunca dejo de creer por mas oscuras que fueran las circunstancias que ciertas libertades merecen ser protegidas y que, para lograrlo, la razon puede y debe guiar la accion.

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult Los Angeles Times

It s not the dream that matters it s the telling of the dream the words you choose the risks you take in externalising your mindThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others As the narrator contends with chronic pain and with a pandemic raging in the background she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer Merging dreams and dailies Pathemata recounts the narrator s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss the loss of intimacy the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor In exacting distilled prose her account blurs the lines between embodied unconscious and everyday life With characteristic precision humour and compassion Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history A stunning original experiment in interiority by the adored author of Bluets and The Argonauts Pathemata is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss both physical and emotional as well as an uncanny meditation on love affliction and resilience

A Financial Times Book of the Year Thoroughly researched Sunday Times To be devoured Philip Mansel This book is a treat for fans of well told history Washington PostA new biography of Catherine de Medici the most powerful woman in sixteenth century Europe whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable and remarkably traduced woman History is rarely kind to women of power but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de Medici Italian born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings during that country s long sequence of sectarian wars in the second half of the sixteenth century Thanks to the malign efforts of propagandists motivated by religious hatred history tends to remember Catherine as a schemer who used witchcraft and poison to eradicate her rivals as a spendthrift dilettante who wasted ruinous sums of money on building and embellishment of monuments and palaces and most sinister of all as instigator of the St Bartholomew s Day massacre of 1572 in which thousands of innocent Protestants were slaughtered by Catholic mobs Mary Hollingsworth delves into contemporary archives to discover deeper truths behind these persistent myths The correspo

LIBRO DEL AÑO EN IRLANDA. Una niña a la que el mundo dio la espalda, pero que logró encontrar su salvación en la educación. «Poderoso. Katriona es una leyenda.» Barry Keoghan «Uno de los mejores libr

Con los nombres de Doña Gracia Mendes, Beatriz de Luna Miques o Nasí, se conoce a una mujer excepcional, apodada también La Señora, considerada, en palabras de Cecil Roth, «una de las figuras promine

Este libro presenta el estudio del archivo personal del político vasco Joseba Azkarraga Rodero, que durante catorce años fue diputado y senador en las Cortes Generales y, posteriormente, consejero de Justicia, Empleo y Seguridad Social del Gobierno vasco, entre 2001 y 2009. Un archivo que fue recopilado y compuesto por el mismo, a lo largo de su biografia politica y en relacion con los importantes asuntos y acontecimientos que le toco vivir en torno a la historia reciente de nuestro pais y de Euskadi. Desde esta perspectiva de testigo presencial, el archivo contiene un valor testimonial enorme y es una fuente primaria realmente importante para la investigacion de nuestra historia contemporanea. El archivo tiene un recorrido cronologico que se extiende entre el final del franquismo, pasando por la conflictiva Transicion, el Golpe de Estado de 1981, todo genero de violencias sufridas a lo largo de tantas decadas, los controvertidos años del Felipismo, hasta llegar a los gobiernos del lehendakari Ibarretxe, de los que Azkarraga formo parte y finalizar con un ultimo capitulo biografico como portavoz de la red ciudadana SARE. El libro trata de mostrar la singularidad y riqueza documental, fotografica y hemerografica del archivo Azkarraga. Ademas, constituye una propuesta de investigacion para futuros trabajos sobre un periodo tan trascendental de la historia, pendiente aun de escribir y necesitado de documentacion que avale un relato riguroso y veraz.