Politik

Eine Geschichte aus Palästina, beinahe zeitlos: Besatzung, Hungersnöte, Frömmelei, Clangesellschaft, Fanatismus als Grundübel. Dreißigjährig blickt Jesus auf sein Leben zurück, das er als rebellischer Heranwachsender teils mit der Suche nach seinem verschwundenen Vater verbracht hat; eine Wanderschaft voller Abenteuer und Gefahren, samt dem glühenden Erwachen des Eros. Maria, die Mutter, war selbst noch ein Kind, als sie ihn bekam, vermutlich infolge einer Vergewaltigung. Nun hat sie ein Geheimnis, einen unausgesprochenen Plan. Der ernüchterte, gleichzeitig getriebene Jesus spürt, dass er ihre Erwartungen nicht erfüllen kann, bis es zu einer letzten Wendung kommt. Die kunstvolle Radikalisierung dieser Menschheitsthemen führt zu einer begnadeten Kontaminierung und der Neuerfindung einer der größten Geschichten, die je erzählt wurden..

'Che cosa me ne faccio, ora, della mia vecchia vita, del mio lavoro ostinato e prezioso, di gioie e delusioni, dei miei pensieri, delle pagine che ho scritto?' si chiede Sergej Bogarëv mentre percorre il fronte nell'agosto del 1941, i tedeschi avanzano e le truppe sovietiche inesorabilmente retrocedono. È 'una guerra mai vista prima', quella che si è abbattuta sul suo paese; una guerra che l'ha strappato all'insegnamento del marxismo e trasformato in commissario politico di un battaglione che, nel tentativo disperato di rallentare l'offensiva nazista, si ritroverà isolato oltre le linee nemiche; una guerra che per lui - come per tutti gli altri protagonisti del romanzo - segna una cesura netta e irreparabile. 'Il popolo è immortale, la sua causa è immortale. Ma non si può risarcire la perdita di un uomo!' scriverà Grossman poco dopo la fine della guerra. E così, pur desideroso di infondere in chi combatteva ottimismo e coraggio, ci racconta i primi mesi dell'invasione tedesca - antefatto di "Stalingrado" e "Vita e destino" - attraverso pagine dure, che dipingono la distruzione e le disfatte, i pensieri dei soldati, la marcia dei contadini nella notte, sotto le "scie rosse dei proiettili traccianti che strisciavano lente verso le stelle', i campi e i boschi sottratti a chi ne conosceva da sempre ogni segreto e il vano eroismo di uomini semplici mandati a fronteggiare 'l'esercito più forte d'Europa'. Pagine di un 'romanzo sovietico', ma così audaci da abdicare a ogni ligia ortodossia. E, come sempre in Grossman, attraversate da un soffio epico che le trasforma in grande letteratura. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Think Tank Tsunami gleicht einer intellektuellen Achterbahnfahrt, einem Blick auf Entscheidungen des Menschen in einer repressiven Welt: Was wäre, wenn Alles anders ist und dennoch Hierarchien die Gesellschaft prägen? Welche Strategie sollte man wählen? Wer wird warum aus Unterdrückung Profit ziehen, gegen die Macht aufbegehren oder sich nur um seine Belange kümmern? Drei Brüder, drei Lebenswege in einer von primitiven Interessen zerrissenen Gegenwart. Aber welche Strategie erscheint am sinnvollsten - und welche wählen Sie?

Penguin Island (original title: L'Île des Pingouins) is a satirical novel by Anatole France, published in 1908. The book uses the fictional story of a society of penguins transformed into humans to critique various aspects of human society, such as religion, politics, and history.The novel begins with a monk named Mael, who mistakenly baptizes a group of penguins, turning them into humans. As these newly humanized penguins form a society called Penguinia, they go through the stages of civilization, from primitive beginnings to a modern state, mirroring the rise and fall of human civilizations throughout history.Through the development of Penguinia, Anatole France satirizes the absurdities and follies of human behavior, exploring themes such as the corrupting influence of power, the conflicts between science and religion, and the cyclical nature of history. The novel is known for its sharp wit, humor, and insightful commentary on human nature and societal issues.Penguin Island is considered one of France's most significant works, showcasing his ability to blend fantasy with social and political critique. The book remains a notable example of literary satire, reflecting France's skepticism and humanistic perspective.

Die fiktiven Memoiren des US-Wirtschaftsverbrechers Bernard Madoff, der bei einer Fehl­spekulation etliche Prominente um Millionen brachte und zu 150 Jahren Haft verurteilt wurde. Bernie Madoff, von der US-Presse zum Monster erklärt und vor Gericht schuldig gesprochen, sieht sich selbst keineswegs als kriminell, sondern als Pionier der New Economy. Manotti lässt ihn vom Gefängnis aus zurückblicken, schwadronieren und dozieren: reuelos, selbst­gefällig, aber keineswegs ohne Geschichtsbewusstsein. Die Wirtschaftshistorikerin stellt uns einen der 'Wall Street-Wölfe' vor, seine Denkweise, seine Abenteuer­lust, seine Erfolge - und die Goldgräber­stimmung der US-Bankerszene in den 1980ern. Ein kluges, ­knappes Lehrstück über Finanz­produkte, Börsen­makler, Schneeballsysteme und Hedgefonds.

Deutschland ist ein zerrissenes Land. Alles wird lauter und schriller. Konflikte dominieren, die Kompromisse werden rarer und die Gegensätze treten deutlich hervor. In dieser Welt ändert sich für Gregor Michael Asmas, der in jungen Jahren einst in der linken Szene sozialisiert wurde, vieles, als eine Verlagerung des Firmensitzes ihn zwingt, von der norddeutschen Großstadt in eine kleine fränkisches Gemeinde im Süden Deutschlands zu ziehen. Schnell erkennt Asmas, dass das vielleicht seine letzte Chance ist, die alten Ideale, die der graue Alltag in den Hintergrund gedrängt hat, doch noch zu leben und zu vermitteln. Und zwar allen im scheinbar rückständigen und reaktionären Dorf. Wirklich allen! Ein noble Idee, wenn da nicht die störrischen Ureinwohner wären, die mit Gregors missionarischem Eifer wenig anfangen können. Doch sein Kampf für eine bessere Welt hat gerade erst begonnen. Werden die Windräder am Ende auch in dem kleinen Dorf erblühen?Und so ist es daher nicht nur die Geschichte von Gregor Michael Asmas, sondern die des Konfliktes zwischen Stadt und Land. Eine Erzählung des Aufeinandertreffens unterschiedlicher Weltansichten und Selbstverständlichkeiten. Immer zwischen Tragödie und Komödie hangelnd. Es ist die Geschichte unserer Gegenwart. Es ist eine deutsche Geschichte.

The story of a life. The story of the year.<BR><BR>'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended; young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.<BR><BR>Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, and he is left alone in 1980s London with their baby son. Her disappearance sparks of journey of discovery that will continue for decades, as Roland confronts the reality of his rootless existence and attempts to embrace the uncertainty - and freedom - of his future.<BR><BR>'Ian McEwan is a masterful storyteller' Elif Shafak<BR><BR>'A beautiful book about love, loss and regret' Observer<BR><BR>'Luminous, beautifully written... about lives imperfectly lived' Vogue<BR><BR>'A whole, unruly life between the covers of a single book: a literary feat' Spectator<BR><BR>'A tour de force... A single life is silhouetted against global happenings' Sunday Times<BR><BR>* A Book of the Year for The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, New Statesman, Washington Post, Vogue and New Yorker *

"Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani was unique in many respects. He was a political activist who had never allowed himself any respite in hispolitical struggle since the age of 14 till he died at 91. And unlike most political leaders of our region, he was more than a politician; he was indeed a statesman with a dream to which his commitment was unflinching. Bhashani's interest was not in gaining power for himself or his party; he did not work for electoral success, his dream was of a social revolution. That is precisely where he travelled beyond the other political leaders we have known. We Bengalis have been fortunate in having leaders of the stature of Chittaranjan Das, Subash Chandra Bose, A. K. Fazlul Haque and SheikhMujibur Rahman, all of whom were great and unique in their own ways; but it would be neither unfair nor an exaggeration to say that Bhashani was thegreatest among the great. He was a hero, not of a tragedy, but of an epic,"-written in the foreword by professor emeritus SERAJUL ISLAM CHOWDHURY, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the book Moulana Bhashani Leader of the Toiling Masses, a publication of Moulana Bhashani Foundation, New York, USA

Hunt's The Justice is about the first woman vice-president, Daryn Austin, who becomes president when the sitting president dies. President Austin concentrates on domestic affairs and on being reelected. She shows herself to be a steady hand in a crisis, and her popularity rises. Then she brings in an old lover to be White House counsel, Cuban American Paul Santana, known for fighting against the return to Cuba of Elian Gonzalez. Rapidly, the two become lovers again. Paul is torn, however, over his disloyalty to his wife and daughter, and the president overplays her hand when she appoints him to the Supreme Court in an attempt to influence their agenda on women's issues. . . . . Hunt's evocation of a woman in power ("You have to play nice with girls, but if you're sharp and think ahead, you can beat them") is always suspenseful, seldom predictable, and frequently insightful. John Mort, Booklist.Copyright (c) American Library Association.

Victoria Pierce is not the person she claims to be. As a beautiful farm girl, living in desolation on the Oklahoma range, she escapes her draconian "parents," hitchhikes to San Francisco, and enlists in the United States Marine Corps. After surviving the rigors of basic training, Victoria is promoted through the ranks from Private to Brigadier General. Throughout her evolution, General Pierce and United States Senator Sam Eagan carry on a torrid love affair. Victoria joins Sam's campaign for president, first as his military consultant and later as his vice presidential candidate. No one, not even Sam Eagan, is aware of Victoria's clandestine past, except for one anonymous and demented caller. During the presidential campaign, Victoria befriends reporter Grace Brandon, but Grace becomes increasingly suspicious of Victoria's urban sophistication which belies an agrarian past. This leads Grace into investigative reporting that eventually unravels the truth about Victoria's past. However, before Grace can get to the bottom of the story, Sam and Victoria win the presidential election. Not long afterwards, Victoria ascends to the office of acting president under the 25th amendment. Grace finally completes her investigation and convinces her editor to release a bombshell of a story. America is shocked. Victoria reacts. Will the story require Victoria to resign or can she survive the revelation?

Noviembre de 1963.Se le acabó la suerte a Frank Guidry. A la sombra del prominente capo de la mafia, Carlos Marcello, la combinación de encanto, inteligencia y astucia de Guidry lo lleva los primeros puestos del negocio. Pero todo cambia repentinamente cuando una horrible tragedia golpea al mundo: John F. Kennedy es asesinado a tiros en la plaza Dealey. Guidry había estado en Dallas menos de dos semanas antes, cumpliendo una tarea para Carlos, y no puede evadir la creciente sospecha de que está involucrado en el asesinato más escandaloso de la historia. Ahora su vida está en riesgo, y Carlos cuenta con que Guidry será el chivo expiatorio. Es hora de que este utilice todas las conexiones que ha logrado y todos los favores que le deben, huya del país y mantenga un perfil bajo... porque su vida pende de un hilo.Charlotte tiene veintiocho años y es madre de dos niñas. Su esposo es amable, pero es un borracho perdido. Ella ha estado durante años tratando desesperadamente de sobrevivir y de proteger a sus hijas, pero el asesinato del presidente ha puesto de manifiesto una sola cosa: que su vida en Oklahoma no tiene futuro. La única opción de Charlotte es llevarse a sus hijas y marcharse.Guidry se encuentra con la bella ama de casa de Oklahoma, sentada a un lado de la carretera con nada más que un auto roto, dos pequeñas y un perro en el asiento trasero, y se da cuenta de que ha encontrado el disfraz perfecto para escapar.Lo último que Guidry espera en un momento como este es acabar metido en un viaje por Estados Unidos con una madre y dos niñas, pero Charlotte y él están en el punto en que necesitan y pueden ayudarse mutuamente. Y a medida que la persecución tras Guidry se vuelve más peligrosa, las cuatro vidas resultan estar en riesgo. ¿Encontrarán la senda a la libertad, o los sentimientos mutuos cada vez mayores que Charlotte y Guidry están alimentando serán su perdición?

Let's excise our old, unpleasant, burdensome history. Let's invent an American past we can rally around and get back to that place. Let's bring back Fonzie and those Happy Days. Or get us back some 1864, and some all-out Civil War. It's your choice, America. Go back or move forward. Human rights or nationalism. Freedom or slavery. Truth, progress and democracy or fantasy, fairy tales and fascism. Save the planet, or slave away under the heat of an angry Mother Earth stripped of her rights and soon to be denied birth control. And oh my, here comes a lonely, superfly Father Sky. He too, is unprotected. We're all unprotected. Society, Suspicious is an experimental, genre-bending novel told by a sometimes insufferable, yet well-meaning, hilarious, formerly dead, formerly narcissistic poet, music idol and antithetical Quixote, fabricating imaginary social media windmills, and seeking revenge on America by starting a cult through conspiracy culminating with an insurrection on 1/6/21 at the wrong building.

The battered, snow-covered body of a woman is found on the banks of the Ottawa River, across from the Parliament Buildings, launching a complex investigation led by Sergeant John Bass and Coroner Gen Simone. Discovered next to the body is a bag of unrefined gold worth almost $800,000. As layers of mystery are peeled back, John and Gen realize there is a deeper question at the heart of this story, one involving the extinct Beothuk peoples of Newfoundland, one that-if answered-could reveal stunning truths about Canada's colonial history and the future outcomes of climate change.The dead woman is presumed to be Anouk Demas, a government Director. Soon after her body is released to her sister, Alice Demas, new information comes to light, but by this time the corpse has gone missing, sending John and Gen on a breathless race through Canada's eastern provinces, involving all levels of government and law enforcement. Unless John and Gen can solve the puzzle in time, the Demas sisters' secret-and an essential historical truth-will be lost forever.At once a mystery thriller, a sociopolitical inquiry, an exploration of romance, friendship, and teamwork, and a celebration of Indigenous cultures and the natural world, SKHI surprises at every twist, right up until its astonishing conclusion.

Victoria Pierce is not the person she claims to be. As a beautiful farm girl, living in desolation on the Oklahoma range, she escapes her draconian "parents," hitchhikes to San Francisco, and enlists in the United States Marine Corps. After surviving the rigors of basic training, Victoria is promoted through the ranks from Private to Brigadier General. Throughout her evolution, General Pierce and United States Senator Sam Eagan carry on a torrid love affair. Victoria joins Sam's campaign for president, first as his military consultant and later as his vice presidential candidate. No one, not even Sam Eagan, is aware of Victoria's clandestine past, except for one anonymous and demented caller. During the presidential campaign, Victoria befriends reporter Grace Brandon, but Grace becomes increasingly suspicious of Victoria's urban sophistication which belies an agrarian past. This leads Grace into investigative reporting that eventually unravels the truth about Victoria's past. However, before Grace can get to the bottom of the story, Sam and Victoria win the presidential election. Not long afterwards, Victoria ascends to the office of acting president under the 25th amendment. Grace finally completes her investigation and convinces her editor to release a bombshell of a story. America is shocked. Victoria reacts. Will the story require Victoria to resign or can she survive the revelation?

The World Cup is supposed to be a celebration of the beautiful game, but the dark political underbelly has made it otherwise. When Asher Fox receives a mysterious call begging for his help to bring back the light, he sets off on a worldwide search for the heart of the game. But Asher doesn't know the danger that awaits. Huge, warring corporations and governments stand in his way, and he is in the crossfire. To get the game back to the people, he will need to be part of something more - a revolution. A Better World Cup. A better world.