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Il libro contiene i discorsi pronunciati a proposito della situazione giovanile.

Un testo che raccoglie le riflessioni, gli appunti, i discorsi del Che sul tema della lotta anticolonialista.

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer tells the story of the past three decades by journeying through the lives of several Americans, including a son of tobacco farmers who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse ofher city, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money, and a Silicon Valley billionaire who arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these stories with sketches of public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaperheadlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics. Packer''s novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.

In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin Shipwreck Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve daysa new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true talking picture, Al Jolsons The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression.All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.

Japón, un país que puede parecer impenetrable tras sus complejos rituales, se acaba vislumbrando gracias a estas 100 palabras escogidas para adentrarse en él y entenderlo. La mayoría son términos que no se suelen traducir y que usamos sin apenas daptacion; algunos son muy conocidos (como sushi, kamikaze o samurai) y otros no tanto (hashi, sakura o tsukemono), pero todos ellos nos acercan la cultura japonesa. Algunas palabras van acompañadas de textos simples, otras se complementan con terminos secundarios que, relacionados con el principal, acaban formando una pequeña constelacion de conceptos. Junto al texto aparecen las exquisitas ilustraciones de Ayano Otani, artista japonesa con un estilo muy personal y cautivador; sus colores vivos y la atencion a los detalles amplifican el significado de las piezas escritas y nos acercan aun mas a la esencia de Japon.