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The wonderful new book from Britain s best loved travel writer In February 2025 Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America s most culturally rich vibrant but also troubled nations In the journal he kept during his trip he gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited the landscapes he travelled through and the people he met Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip and permeated with his warmth and humour this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country from the best selling author of Great Uncle Harry and Into Iraq

THE INSTANT 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From eldest daughter Shari Franke the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog now the subject of a new Disney docuseries and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother and how in the face of unimaginable pain she found freedom and healing Shari Franke s childhood was a constant battle for survival Her mother Ruby Franke enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers which documented the day to day life of raising six children for a staggering 2 5 million subscribers But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface Ruby s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined As the family s YouTube notoriety grew so too did Ruby s delusions of righteousness Fueled by the sadistic influence of relationship coach Jodi Hildebrandt together they implemented an inhumane and merciless disciplinary regime Ruby and Jodi were arrested in Utah in 2023 on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse On that fateful day Shari shared a photo online of a police car outside their home Her caption had one word Finally For th

My favourite wine w nker Jack Whitehall I like to talk about wine the way normal humans talk about things they love it s not about showing off how many fancy wine terms I know The point is to share something I love with someone else in a way that makes them want to love it too Thirsty is the story of Tom Gilbey The Wine Guy and his life in wine a celebration of the bleedin beautiful people who make it and a history of his family s love affair with winemaking and let s be honest drinking since the 1800s Learn how to read a label even if you can t speak the language talk wine without sounding naff choose wine in a restaurant explain why some wine smells like your granny s cardiganAlong the way you ll discover 100 Wine W nker approved bottles wines for friendships and long lunches for autumn afternoons and winter evenings Whether yours is a Chateauneuf du Pape Kylie Minogue s rose or God forbid orange wine Tom will help you find the good stuff always Let Tom show you how this gloriously gluggable elixir is at its heart made to bring pleasure and that there is no right or wrong to enjoy wine just go for it Entertaining and engaging Helen McGinn of knackeredmother

From legend of the high street Mary Portas comes a no holds barred account about her time as the window dresser and creative director for Harvey Nichols that is full of juicy anecdotes from the fashi

The beautiful emotional and true story of a mother and daughter s love and their strength to survive the horrors of the Holocaust

A sparkling biography of the legendary Fulvia of Ancient Rome described by Cicero as a thoroughly rapacious woman

Nelson Mandela fue condenado a cadena perpetua en 1962. Tenía 44 años y pasaría 27 entre rejas, 18 de ellos en el tristemente célebre penal de Robben Island, donde los presos eran sometidos a un trato inmisericorde. Nunca flaqueo ni perdio la dignidad: no renuncio a sus principios ni permitio que la sinrazon lo envileciera.Durante los 10.052 dias de cautiverio escribio cientos de cartas a las autoridades penitenciarias, a sus compañeros de lucha, a familiares y amigos, a su mujer y a su hijo. En ellas reclama derechos a funcionarios implacables; insta a proseguir el combate; recuerda momentos felices; expresa cariño, dolor y añoranza; elogia y anima, consuela y aconseja.Las 255 cartas aqui reunidas componen el retrato mas completo del heroe que encabezo la liberacion de su pueblo y del hombre entrañable que asomaba tras la figura publica. Al mismo tiempo, constituyen un testimonio que refleja como ningun otro la perspectiva humana de un episodio unico en la historia contemporanea.

Complete reprint of the unexpurgated edition of &ldquo,Mein Kampf&rdquo, (&ldquo,My Struggle&rdquo,) written by Adolf Hitler (1925 and 1927). Volume I

Desde los tiempos más antiguos, el número de grandes hombres propensos a la ingesta alcohólica supera al de los sobrios. Carlos Janín ha compuesto un original y completo diccionario donde da cuenta de la estrecha relacion que, para bien o para mal, existe y ha existido siempre entre el uso y el abuso del alcohol y la creacion artistica y literaria. Una relacion plagada de contradicciones, ya que lo etilico aparece a la vez como fuente de alegria, motor festivo y exaltacion de la amistad, junto al abismo de la desgracia, tobogan hacia la perdicion y sentencia de muerte. Tal vez, acercando la lampara, podria esbozarse cierta distincion entre las obras y sus autores, siendo las primeras mas risueñas, aunque tampoco siempre, y los efectos en los segundos mas calamitosos. Lease con moderacion, pues en la moderacion y justo medio puede que este la clave del buen provecho.

Arthur Colley Wellesley (17691852), más conocido como el duque de Wellington, es uno de los militares más célebres de todos los tiempos, y su trayectoria como hombre de armas ha estado envuelta desde siempre e un cierto aire de leyenda, sobre todo en cuanto a la trascendencia de su actuacion en Waterloo.. Del mismo modo, la entidad de su gran rival, Napoleon, ha marcado tambien su biografia, hasta el punto de dejar en la sombra otros aspectos igualmente interesantes de su personalidad, como su pensamiento politico, su relacion con comaradas o con las mujeres o sus ambiciones personales mas alla de las propiamente militares. Si bien dedica atinadas y documentadas paginas a las grandes batallas que dirigio Wellington (campaña en la India, Talavera de la Reina, defensa de Lisboa, Arapiles, Waterloo), esta biografia se singulariza por atender todas las facetas de un hombre poliedrico en cuya imagen los triunfos militares taparon otros aspectos

Educated meets The Queen s Gambit in this extraordinary memoir by International Master and Chess com co founder Danny Rensch who describes his upbringing in an abusive cult and how chess ended up saving his life Born into the Church of Immortal Consciousness Danny Rensch spent his childhood navigating the isolated confines of a cult Despite psychological manipulation physical abuse and neglect he persevered An international chess master and world class commentator Rensch s remarkable journey led him to being the face of Chess com one of the largest online gaming platforms in the world With unflinching honesty Rensch recounts his life starting from the moment he discovered chess in the summer of 1995 all the way up to being at the center of the most explosive cheating scandal in chess history He chronicles the traumas of being special in a cult that forced separation from his mother Mentored by an alcoholic Russian chess master he found solace alongside suffering in his obsession for an ancient game and chess became his only escape Rensch rose through the chess ranks until a medical emergency nearly took him out of the game forever And it almost did until Chess com came along Deeply heartfelt keenly reflective and haunting Dark Squares is

Ni con el Rey ni contra el Rey. Fiel a su lema de «informar con rigor, sin favor y sin temor», Pilar Urbano presenta un libro potente, intenso, con asombrosas revelaciones en el que, página a página, se ofrece al lector la aventura de descubrir una época que creía conocer. Es el revés del tapiz. Es la cara oculta de la Historia. Este libro introduce al lector tanto en los oscuros mundos de ETA y de la CIA, como en las inaccesibles estancias de El Pardo, La Zarzuela, el despacho oval de la Casa Blanca, las reuniones a puerta cerrada del Club Bilderberg… allí donde se decide la paz y la guerra, la vida y la muerte.

A witty and humane account of one man multiple jobs and what it means to liveHu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated He s been a convenience store clerk a bicycle salesman a security guard and a delivery driver among many other things Every time the work gets punishing or the bosses too bossy he moves on from city to city carrying with him nothing but his copies of Chekhov and Carver This is his story A runaway bestseller in China I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is about what it s like to try and make a living and stay sane in the gig economy From the pecking order on a parcel sorting factory floor to the perfect alcohol dose to get some daylight shut eye before a punishing night shift from the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the hiring departments to the ideal layout of a delivery route Hu illuminates the hidden lives behind the roles that keep our world going But he also shows how through the liberating power of literature he finds solace and even freedom in his existence Quietly radical brimming with humanity and humour this book asks what does work really mean What should it mean And do any of us really know how to live

The incredible first memoir from the Booker winning radical icon Arundhati Roy author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy s first work of memoir this is a soaring account both intimate and inspiring of how the author became the person and the writer she is shaped by circumstance but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary singular mother Mary who she describes as my shelter and my storm Distraught and even a little ashamed at the intensity of her response to the death of the mother she ran from at age eighteen Arundhati began to write Mother Mary Comes to Me The result is this astonishing disconcerting surprisingly funny chronicle unique and simultaneously universal of the author s life from childhood to the present from Kerala to Delhi With the scale sweep and depth of her novels and the passion political clarity and warmth of her essays Mother Mary Comes to Me is an ode to freedom a tribute to thorny love and savage grace a memoir like no other

Descubre Yo mismo. Santiago Salvador, el anarquista que atentó al Liceo de Barcelona presenta en primera persona una historia vibrante y conmovedora que te atrapará desde la primera página. A través de la voz del propio Santiago Salvador, nos adentramos en la Barcelona convulsa de finales del siglo XIX, un escenario donde la modernidad y la miseria caminaban de la mano, y donde las tensiones sociales hervian bajo la aparente calma burguesa. Santiago, joven marcado por la injusticia y la perdida, se sumerge en la clandestinidad del anarquismo tras la muerte de su amigo Paulino, victima de un sistema despiadado. Consumido por la rabia y el ansia de justicia, su historia nos arrastra en una espiral de dilemas morales, luchas internas y decisiones extremas que desembocaran en uno de los atentados mas impactantes de la historia reciente: En pleno corazon cultural de Barcelona, el 7 de noviembre de 1893, Santiago lanza una bomba en pleno Gran Teatre del Liceu, simbolo del poder burgues y del elitismo cultural. Este atentado, que no solo busca venganza personal, se inscribe en una estrategia mas amplia de propaganda por el hecho, termino utilizado por los anarquistas para justificar acciones violentas como medio de visibilizar su lucha y generar un cambio social. Santiago, al sumergirse en la clandestinidad del anarquismo, se enfrenta a dilemas morales que lo llevan a cuestionar la legitimidad de sus actos y la direccion de su lucha. Pero esta novela no se limita a narrar un hecho

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El general José María Paz combatió en la guerra de la Independencia y fue uno de los grandes protagonistas del conflicto civil posterior entre unitarios y federales. Sus Memorias póstumas son un documento insustituible para comprender la historia desgarrada de aquel tiempo. En este segundo volumen que completa la obra, el autor narra en detalle como cae preso de Estanislao Lopez, su cautiverio en Santa Fe, la muerte de Quiroga, el casamiento en la carcel y su traslado a Lujan. Una vez en libertad, Paz explica su desacuerdo con Lavalle y la retirada fatal de este, la victoria de Caaguazu y los avatares de la defensa de Corrientes ante las fuerzas rosistas. Como apendice, se incluyen los partes de batalla de sus victorias mas celebres y escritos de Sarmiento y de un "testigo de los sucesos" acerca de la actuacion de Paz en el sitio Montevideo.