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Josep Benet ha estat el primer historiador que ha tingut accés a l'original del consell de guerra sumaríssim contra el president Companys. Com a resultat d'aquesta investigació i de les seves recerques, de 1990 ença, avui publica aquest nou llibre sobre Lluis Companys. Aqui es transcriu, per primera vegada, literalment i integrament, la sentencia de mort contra el president de la Generalitat, i es presenten documents essencials sobre la detencio de Companys a França, el seu trasllat a l'Espanya franquista i el seu afusellament al castell de Montjuic. Des d'ara no es podra parlar seriosament sobre el cas Companys sense haver llegit aquest llibre rigoros i emocionant.

The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American WestIn the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexicothe former in search of gold, the latter seeking soulsas well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called California.Serras mission: to spread Christianity in this unknown world by building churches wherever possible and by converting the native peoples to the Word of God. It was an undertaking that seemed impossible, given the vast distances, the challenges of the unforgiving landscape, and the danger posed by resistant native tribes. Such a journey would require bottomless physical stamina, indomitable psychic strength, and, above all, the deepest faith. Serra, a diminutive man with a stout heart, possessed all of these attributes, as well as an innate humility that allowed him to see the humanity in native people whom the West viewed as savages.By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New Worldmuch of that distance on a chronically infected and painful footbaptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of Californias twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest. The names of these missions ring through the history of California San Diego, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara, and San Franciscoand served as the epicenters of the arrival of Western civilization, where millions more would follow, creating the California we know today.

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Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die --from starvation, or disease, or even execution. In Order to Live is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape to South Korea through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and her emergence as a leading human rights activist --all before her twenty-first birthday. Park was born to a family of civil servants in the North Korean city of Hyesan, along the Chinese border. She grew up in a society in which the regime controls everything you do, everything you learn, where you go, what you say, even what you think. In this warped world, famine was a way of life and minor offenses, such as watching foreign videos, could prove fatal. Park's family was relatively privileged until her father, a party member, was arrested for smuggling. After that, life in North Korea became a ceaseless battle against starvation. Escaping with her mother, Park began a long journey of unspeakable hardship and degradation through China and Mongolia, which finally yielded her freedom in South Korea. Today Park is an influential leader of the younger generations of Korean dissidents and an internationally recognized advocate for human rights around the world. In the end, In Order to Live is about the resilience of the human spirit and the transcendent power of love to overcome the most ghastly horrors and the most hopeless circumstances. I had to learn how to love others, says Yeonmi Park. And now I am willing to die for them.

La época de expansión del imperio que le tocó vivir a la Reina Victoria también fue un época de dificultades políticas en Europa y de conflictos en Gran Bretaña. Esta obra además de reflejar todos estos temas se adentra en la historia intima de la reina, sus relaciones personales, anecdotas curiosas y cotilleos de la epoca, todo ello bajo una rigurosa investigacion que ha utilizado a fondo un documento muy poco conocido hasta el momento, el diario personal de la reina.

Meet the woman behind the politician Offers a remarkable new view of a remarkable and still under appreciated leader Simon Jenkins Since stepping down in 1990 Margaret Thatcher has become a cardboard cut out hate figure or an iconic defender of freedom depending on your politics In The Incidental Feminist Friend foe femme fatale The truth about Thatcher Tina Gaudoin investigates the complexities of the woman behind the tropes Drawing upon explosive new material from the archives and interviews with her contemporaries Gaudoin reveals how Thatcher triumphed over rampant misogyny and class prejudice to normalise female power and manipulated her femininity sexuality and intellect to become the most powerful woman in the world Publishing to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher s birth

Join Julia Bradbury as she travels the world to uncover the ultimate health and wellness hacks to help you take charge of your health for good The human body is a marvel of biological engineering that constantly renews itself and we always seem to be on the hunt for ways to improve it physically and emotionally But with so many new health trends on the rise how do we know what really works In Hack Yourself Healthy TV presenter and author Julia Bradbury cuts through the noise to embark on a rigorous journey to reclaim her health following her own breast cancer diagnosis Her quest in this book is to discover whether she can go from a cancer diagnosis to being the fittest and healthiest she s ever been Travelling across the world to explore different cultural approaches from India to Antarctica from Cornwall to Yorkshire Julia talks with world renowned experts as she volunteers as a Crash Test Mummy to test the latest in biohacking screening and testing Follow her as she embraces Europe s coldest cryotherapy chamber and investigates the world s oldest medical system Ayurveda in the Himalayas Drawing from research interviews with global thought leaders and personal experiments Julia offers practical tips and accessible science based strategies to

A refreshingly honest look at modern life and how to get out of living it Rhys has lived his entire life with a backdrop of dread As a child the sentence he feared most was come downstairs and say hello Age 5 he feigned injury to avoid dancing at a wedding and 25 years later he celebrated when the venue set on fire moments before what would ve been the biggest gig of his life You ll Like It When You Get There is a guide to life from someone who doesn t want to do anything and an exploration of why you possibly shouldn t either Join Rhys as he avoids not just social engagements but big life milestones too like getting married and having children A deep dive into regret humiliation failure and pretending to be French for personal gain From the Wild West of early internet chatrooms to the sticky circus of the Kavos strip from redesigning therapy after completing it in just four sessions to having a full existential breakdown when a Buddhist monk asks him for 5 stars on TripAdvisor If you ve ever celebrated plans being cancelled with an Andy Murray fist pump secretly prayed for another lockdown attempted to start your own nickname or tried in vain to control the outcome of everything you do then welcome to the club We close early obviousl

From her chambers in London one of Britain s most dazzling legal minds is taking on the challenge of a lifetime VOGUE Law could be our planet s greatest hope I was punching the air as I read this powerful inspiring book ISABELLA TREE Fascinating and compelling A vital book for our times JULIAN HOFFMAN A seminal and important book which will become a key part of the gathering movement to protect the rights of nature SARAH LANGFORD Can a planet have legal rights Could it be defended in a court of law How do we redefine a right to life A revolution is taking place Around the world ordinary people are turning to courts seeking justice for environmental wrongs At the forefront of this movement pioneering barrister Monica Feria Tinta advocates not only for people but also for those who have no voice for rivers forests and endangered species In A Barrister for the Earth Feria Tinta takes us behind the scenes of ten real cases as she argues against the destruction of cloud forests and for sovereign states to account for inaction Each of these are landmarks signalling that we are at an important juncture in which the law can be a powerful tool for the lasting change

A tremendously engaging read The TimesA unique memoir from British cycling s most fascinating competitorIn the summer of 2020 sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York began a series of journeys following the Tour de France A nostalgic voyage through the world s most competitive bike race for Walsh it was the chance to get to know the Tour s most enigmatic riders For York it was a chance to revisit the race she had ridden eleven times as Robert Millar This book is the result a unique and captivating sporting odyssey The Escape blends the details of Pippa and David s journeys with the iconic landmarks of the Tour de France to explore her early years in working class Glasgow her entry into competitive cycling the psychological demands of the sport and how they shaped her personality It recounts her career highs and lows life after racing and her transition in her 40s Touching on doping gender in sport and the everyday magic of the Tour The Escape is an unforgettable travelogue and a candid one of a kind memoir from one of cycling s most enigmatic competitors

Elegant and terrifying the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine s frontlines some to save democracy some to save themselves A modern day Homage to Catalonia and Fight Club on steroids Oliver Poole London StandardWith real life echoes of SAS Rogue Heroes this is an astonishing account of Europe s biggest major conflict told through the eyes of a ragbag collection of foreign fighters Three days after Russian tanks roll into Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky issues a desperate appeal for foreign military volunteers to help defend his country Thousands answer the call from all over the world some of them experienced soldiers others novices who ve never held a gun before Among their ranks are high minded idealists adventure seekers bored with civilian life and ex criminals seeking redemption all risking their lives against the world s most vicious superpower Some flee at the first sign of trouble others become heroes many are killed and a few turn their guns on each other This is their story often terrifying often tragic sometimes comic and sometimes glorious

Very occasionally a tragedy turns into a triumph This wonderful searing book is such a moment Rush to read it & be thankful Miriam MargolyesLast night Ben phoned from Bermuda collect as usual I d asked though heaven knows why as we avoid soppy talk if he still loved me He had said Course I do He would be home for a visit once the race was over He could not say exactly when but would keep in touch It is early June the third day of June to be precise and a day I will never forget Something feels wrong Better get up Shirley s sixth sense was all too real tragedy had struck Ben s ship Marques The government announced that it was a freak accident But something did not add up On 2 June 1984 the British registered tall ship Marques left Bermuda Harbour cheered on by watching crowds With other sailing vessels from across the world the barque was heading for Halifax Nova Scotia having won the first leg of the internationally famous Tall Ships Race As they sailed out to sea there was not a cloud in the sky But by midnight the weather had changed and the seas became violent Just 80 miles from Bermuda things took a turn for the worse the ship lurched and water poured in through the wide open hatches In 40 seconds the Marques had vanished Of

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street Gloucester seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple Fred and Rose West While growing up in poverty stricken Dublin in the 1960s Kathleen was abused from a young age A move to England allowed her to escape but even so life remained difficult forcing her to seek refuge At first Cromwell Street provided freedom for the sisters who were entertained by Fred s quirky behaviour Kathleen was also happy to make a new friend in her fellow lodger Shirley Robinson But then things took a sinister turn Fred began to abuse Kathleen with his wife s encouragement And when Shirley suddenly disappeared too Kathleen s world began to grow very dark This is a chilling account of what it s like to come face to face with Britain s most notorious serial killers but it is also an inspiring account of the resilience of women and how to find happiness after trauma

A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances from the author of The Nine From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber Neumann were inseparable Czech Milena was Kafka s first translator and epistolary lover and a journalist opposed to fascism A non conformist bi sexual feminist she was way ahead of her time With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia her home became a central meeting place for Jewish refugees German Margarete born to a middle class family married the son of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber But soon swept up in the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution she met her second partner the Communist Heinz Neumann Called to Moscow for his political deviations he fell victim to Stalin s purges while Margarete was exiled to the hell of the Soviet gulag Two years later traded by Stalin to Hitler she ended up outside Berlin in Ravensbruck the only concentration camp built for women Milena and Margarete loved each other at the risk of their lives But in the post war survivors accounts lesbians were stigmatized and survivors kept silent This book explores those silences and finally celebrates two strong women who never gave up and continue to inspire

A compendium of new writing telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories of railway routes around the world from the UK Europe and Africa to North America the Middle East and Asia This collection will appeal to general readers around travel history and railways as well as readers of post colonial writings geo political explorations or global family histories From the Burmese highlands to the British Pennines from the history of a precipitous coastal stretch of Indian railroad to a cross continent odyssey on African railways this is a new way of exploring the world and its history by train The Untold Railways Stories is a testament to both the joy and impact of train travel to the ambition and ingenuity and also to destruction and sacrifice within the history of passenger railways and is published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of first passenger railway line