Títulos em Político

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the 35th president of the United States and a serial womaniser. An American man for the modern age: Kennedy is handsome, charming, a beaming paragon of worldly virtue. But beneath the slick veneer of a confident statesman he harbours a vice that will threaten his family, his fortune and even his country. Empathetic, darkly witty and deft, Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer shines a novelist's spotlight on the world's most powerful and corrupting institution: the American presidency.

"La fattoria degli animali" voleva essere, nelle intenzioni dell'autore, una realistica allegoria della Russia Sovietica, dominata da Stalin. La cacciata dell'uomo avrebbe dovuto portare tra gli animali della fattoria liberata alla realizzazione di quei valori di egualitarismo, fratellanza e libertà che sono il manifesto ideologico dell'illuminismo e da cui hanno tratto la loro origine marxismo, socialismo, comunismo. Nel libro viene ben rappresentato come nella realtà la salita al potere da parte dei nuovi suonatori non determinerà affatto il cambiamento della musica, tutt'altro.

La satira classica della rivoluzione russa di George Orwell è una parte intima della nostra cultura contemporanea, citata così spesso che tendiamo a dimenticare chi ha scritto le parole originali. È un resoconto della coraggiosa lotta che trasforma la fattoria terriera del signor Jones in fattoria degli animali, una società interamente democratica costruita sul credo che tutti gli animali sono creati uguali. Per intelligenza, i maiali Napoleone, Squealer e Palla di neve emergono come leader della nuova comunità in una sottile evoluzione che porta una insidiosa familiarità.

RESUяяECTION is a diary from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson starting in July 2020, three months after the nurses (whose name he forgets) saved his life. With a daily entry over these months of rehabilitation for himself and the country, the diary is an explosive, addicting, imagined exposé of what is really happening at the height of power as Boris, the UK, and the world recover from COVID-19. And events quickly send Boris down a murky and dangerous pathway in search of eternal life. 

It is November 1918. Germany has just surrendered after four years of the most savage warfare in history. It is teetering on the brink of total social and economic collapse, and the German people now lie at the mercy of new liberal politicians who despise everything Germany once stood for. The Communists are rioting in the streets, threatening to topple the new government in Weimar and bring about their own revolution. 

Is being a part of the "herd" really a good thing? In Ayn Rand's Anthem, we join our protagonist in this dystopian future world where humankind's compulsion to seek and live in the "safety of numbers" can go horribly wrong. Anthem was published in 1938 but is scarily relevant to our modern world. 

In his third installment, commander James Mitchel once again sails the African waters onboard the USS James E. Williams. When Mitchel learns of a mysterious cargo onboard the Dai Hong Dan - a North Korean freighter - the American warship sails to intercept. Before the Williams reaches the North Korean freighter, they are seized by Somalian pirates in the waters where US and NATO warships have been patrolling off the Horn of Africa for years now in an effort to stop piracy. 

The 1968 Tet uprising plunges America deeper into the abyss of Vietnam. Martin Luther King is shot, and riots rage in 130 burning American cities. Students protesting the War take over American universities, and street battles in Paris nearly topple the French government. Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the Democratic presidential race against Lyndon Johnson, followed by Bobby Kennedy, who goes on to win the California Democratic primary.

A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and he becomes lost in memory and beauty. He also begins to tell us a story.

Talentul lui Duțescu e de a da pe față lucrurile inconfortabile, de a le spune clar și pe bune. Într-o literatură fascinată de marginali și ratați, el vorbește cu simpatie despre oameni aflați în plin proces de ascensiune socială. Pe scurt, despre parveniți—un subiect la care lumea bună strâmbă vinovat din nas, chit că parvenitismul e adevărul de profunzime al unei societăți ajunse de curând la prosperitate. Mai mult, la fel de tabu e și opinia că în comunism a fost bine, deși e împărtășită de larga majoritate a celor trecuți prin vechiul regim.

A diverse cast of characters are on a roller-coaster ride of international and political intrigue, romance, drugs, and ambition against the backdrop of white-hot racial relations. The president of the United States must ultimately devise a solution to still the ticking of the interracial “time bomb”.  

Bath, 1911. Passionate suffrage campaigner Esther Stanbury works as a window dresser in Pennington's Department Store. She has hopes for women's progression and will do anything to help secure the vote. Owner of the prestigious Phoenix Hotel, Lawrence Culford has what most would view as a successful life. But Lawrence is harbouring shame and resentment. When Esther and Lawrence meet, their mutual understanding of life's challenges unites them. Can they overcome their pasts?

POTUS: A Political Fantasy is the story of a semi-reluctant hero acting for the people of the United States and the world, as well as the universe at large. The improbability of his election to the presidency is offset by the prodigious efforts he makes to accomplish a simple goal: the restoration of freedom for the people of the United States and the world at large, as well as establishing it for sentients in the Cosmos.

Colonel Dan Blake's 18-year career in the British Army comes to an abrupt end when he fails a psychiatric evaluation when in line for the top job in counterterrorism at MI5. Finding himself unexpectedly unemployed, Blake travels to Moscow to visit his one real friend, Edwin Mallory, himself a high-achieving Cambridge peer 18 years into a high-flying career with MI6. In Mallory's Moscow circle, Blake meets oil billionaire Sheikh Mohammad al Hussein. The meeting leads to a job offer for Blake's unique skill set.

Die kunstvolle Lesung von Gudrun Landgrebe und Mario Schneider bringt uns die Figuren und Schauplätze nahe und lässt uns eintauchen in die Paradiese von gestern. Ihre Stimmen erzählen mit Leichtigkeit und Kraft von der Liebe, dem Tod und den Verlockungen unserer neuen Zeit. Ella und René sind jung und frisch verliebt. Sie kommen aus Ostdeutschland und verbringen, kaum dass die Mauer gefallen ist, ihren ersten gemeinsamen Urlaub in Südfrankreich. Dabei geraten sie auf das heruntergekommene Weinschloss der Madame de Violet. Als deren Sohn Alain auftaucht, ein aalglatter Geschäftsmann, stoßen drei Weltanschauungen aufeinander.

From the guy who likes to "joke" about being president for life and asks foreign governments to dig up dirt on his political opponents, comes a brand new book for your outrage and amusement. Trump Ninja vs. Impeachment sees our Colluder-in-Chief trying to figure out what the word impeachment actually means, while saving the world from S.N.O.W.F.L.A.K.E., the conspiracy behind the conspiracies.

La piramide è il simbolo del potere, delle gerarchie. Il personaggio di questo racconto percorre un viaggio lungo una notte attorno a se stesso e scopre…aveva capito che il rapporto tra informazione e potere era lo stesso che tra corruzione e politica. Quasi si confondevano. Trovò quindi il modo di stabilire che tutte le comunicazioni passassero da lui. Da lui invece ne uscivano pochissime. L’indispensabile. Alle volte neanche quello. Stava mettendo in pericolo l’azienda. Ma doveva farlo. Giusto il tempo necessario per arrivare in cima.

In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of Black African women in the United States. Awash with the joys of exploring a new world as well as a myriad of challenges, her complicated female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity and sexism in vibrant, indelible settings. Yet again, these are not only stories of navigating a tense US political climate, they are also marked by characters who rise to the top of their professional fields, seize the American dream, and travel the world in glee.

From the guy who tells scientists, "It will get cooler" and retorts that, "Well, science doesn't really know" when he's told that the science is against him, comes a brand new book for your outrage and amusement. Trump Ninja vs. Global Warming sees our Colluder-in-Chief tilting at windmills trying to do battle with the specter of the "hoax" of climate change, while saving the world from S.N.O.W.F.L.A.K.E., the conspiracy behind the conspiracies.

It is the winter of 1975 in Northern Ireland, and the Troubles are at their darkest hour. Casey Riordan is missing, and Jamie Kirkpatrick has just returned home from two years in a Russian gulag. Desperate to find her missing husband, Pamela Riordan makes a devil’s bargain with the one man she believes can help her, forming an alliance which will have grave consequences for her and those she loves.