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This text is presented in English, French and German. It includes a book and 4 CDs. It presents a fascinating journey through the life of Ernesto Che Guevara, the revolutionary of the 20th century par excellence. Photographs and documents are compiled together to illustrate the most important phases in his life: the set of one CD with Tango Argentina, another with Cuban folk music, a third with a wonderful musical journey narrating the time he spent in Africa, to his tragic end in Bolivia is complete with a fourth CD containing international workers'' and battle songs. Che fought in Latin America - on a continent where there were still medieval conditions through the prevalent social imbalance, and where many humans were treated like dirt. For the campesinos - the peasant population - he has become a symbol of liberation. His struggle soon became widely popular even across borders, and was understood as the battle between the oppressed and the oppressors per se. Then as now, he is the incarnation of the myth of freedom as an eternal value. Che was the champion against injustice in his world, though he has since been turned into a symbol for anyone fighting for justice. A strong and pure hero sacrificing himself for class struggle in a country in which the ruling class had the right to decide about life or death of any class below their own. Che was a citizen of the people, and he is remembered as such - as someone who would give his shirt off his back for justice and even sacrifice his life. A symbol of the leftist movement itself on the one hand, as well as one for any human being of good intentions on the other; someone who would hoist the flag of freedom in the name of the people.

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures In this respect, the Fuhrer is presented as a man ahead of his time, who foreshadowed Hollywood and TV stars and post-war politicians. In a field dense with lengthy tomes, this brief, penetrating portrait provides a compelling introduction to a man whose evil continues to fascinate and appal.

La visión más completa hasta la fecha de la figura, la gesta y el legado de Manuel Iradier es lo que nos ofrece en este libro el joven y sin embargo avezado escritor Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano, según el prólogo de Ramón Jiménez Fraile. Aparece Iradier como rebelde en una sociedad dócil, zarzuelera y bufa, que a base de desidias, feos gestos e ignominiosa indiferencia, acelera el proceso de desaliento de cualquier joven. Iradier eleva su mirada, sueña grandes metas y se crece su figura. La gesta fue superar aquella sociedad cerrada, clerical, clasista y militaroide para jugársela a una carta adentrándose en una imposible geografía africana. Su legado quedó para que otras vidas, llegadas más tarde, crecieran bajo el soplo de su ejemplo. Émulos de tan rebelde maestro surgen para hacer bueno que "su corazón continúa viviendo como viven los relojes de pulsera de los soldados muertos".

From Sarah Bradford, the best-selling author of George VI, Elizabeth and Diana, the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II, to tie in with the Diamond Jubilee. Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK and Ronald Reagan, and other world leaders like President Mandela and Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron, the last only ten years older than her grandson. Her own family experiences, a mixture of happiness and crisis, weddings and divorces, and, in the case of Diana, violent death, have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years. Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors': the Queen has remained a calm presence at the centre, earning the respect of monarchists and republicans. How has she done it? 'Bradford has a real grasp of history and the ability to make it spark into new life' Sunday Telegraph 'Bradford's forte, ever since she was a history-mad girl, is thinking herself into other lives' Daily Telegraph Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her books include Cesare Borgia (1976), Disraeli (1982), winner of the New York Times Book of the Year, Princess Grace (1984), Sacherevell Sitwell (1993), Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (1996), America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2000), Lucrezia Borgia (2005) and Diana (2007). She frequently appears on television as an authority on her biographical subjects and as a commentator on notable royal events. She is currently working on a full scale biography of Queen Victoria. She lives in London.

El 9 de agosto de 1945 un B-29 norteamericano lanzó una bomba atómica sobre la ciudad japonesa de Nagasaki, acabando en un abrir y cerrar de ojos con la vida de decenas de miles de personas e hiriendo y envenenando mortalmente a miles mas. Entre los supervivientes se hallaba Takashi Nagai, un converso catolico pionero en la investigacion radiologica. Viviendo entre los escombros de una ciudad en ruinas y victima de una leucemia causada por la sobreexposicion a la radiacion, Nagai paso el resto de su extraordinaria vida sanando fisica y espiritualmente a una poblacion destrozada por la guerra.Requiem por Nagasaki narra la emocionante historia de este hombre excepcional, empezando por su infancia y por los heroicos relatos y las virtudes estoicas de la religion sintoista que profesaba su familia. El libro ofrece el estimulante relato de un viaje memorable desde el sintoismo y el ateismo hasta la fe catolica. La biografia de Nagai, salpicada de curiosos detalles sobre la historia y la cultura japonesas, traza su busqueda espiritual desde sus tiempos de estudiante de medicina en la Universidad de Nagasaki, sus años de servicio como medico militar durante la ocupacion japonesa de Manchuria y su regreso a Nagasaki para dedicarse al campo de la radiologia. El historico barrio catolico de la ciudad, donde Nagai vivio y fundo una familia, se convirtio en la zona cero de la bomba atomica.

Forjat en la lluita anarcosindicalista durant la II República i heroi de la resistència francesa contra el nazisme, Ramon Vila Capdevila (Peguera 1908 ? Castellnou de Bages 1963) va ser el darrer maq

"A finals de 2005 vaig publicar Vides amb nom, un recull de pràcticament totes les meves "notes sobre persones" escrites des de 1970 fins el mateix 2005. El recull heterogeni de trenta-cinc anys aplegava més de setanta notes escrites i publicades en llocs molt diversos. Passats només sis anys des d'aquella publicació, avui dono a conèixer aquestes Noves vides amb nom. De forma indestriable es barreja el conjunt de persones que transiten per aquestes pàgines amb la meva pròpia biografia". [de la Presentació de l´autor]

""Ahora todo el mundo se apunta a hablar de valores, pero quienes siempre han hablado de ellos tienen derecho, como es nuestro caso, a exigir un reconocimiento de su coherencia. Valores como la familia, la libertad con responsabilidad, el respeto, la solidaridad, la autoridad, la disciplina...". En este breve fragmento de Cartas de navegacion, el lector podra observar las dos palabras clave que vertebran este libro y tambien, mas genericamente, la actitud vital y la trayectoria politica de Josep A. Duran i Lleida. Estas dos palabras son valores y coherencia" (Del prologo del presidente de la Generalitat, Artur Mas i Gavarro).a