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Don Sendic de Chamangá
by Daniel ChavarriaRaúl Sendic fue un Quijote de nuestro tiempo, habiendo contribuidodecididamente a que se preste atención y se mejore la vida de miles dehombres, mujeres y niños de nuestra campaña más desvalida. El Bebe Sendic fue un hombre insólito, de azarosa trayectoria y finaltrágico y heroico.Su gesta significó un punto de inflexión para el norte pobre del Uruguayde la segunda mitad del siglo xx. Se constituyó en el procurador quededicó su erudición, inteligencia y perspicacia a defender hasta lasúltimas consecuencias a los trabajadores rurales, explotados porempresarios y terratenientes que violaban sin escrúpulos cualquierrudimento de derecho laboral, dando a sus peones y jornaleros un tratotorpe y brutal.Es esa tarea de generosa nobleza la que asemeja a este oriundo deChamangá, Flores, a otro veterano de las proezas humanas, líder de otrospobres del pasado oriental: José Artigas. En su novela biográfica,Daniel Chavarría enfatiza esa imitación del prócer que tanto se propusoy consiguió su protagonista, aunque también el narrador insiste en queSendic mucho tuvo también del idealista caballero cervantino en ese afánimplacable por vengar agravios y ayudar a menesterosos.Fundador de la Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas e incansableactivista en sindicatos diversos, pasó a ser pieza clave del Movimientode Liberación Nacional, Tupamaros. Por su lucha junto a los cañeros, susqueridos ?peludos?, y luego por sus acciones guerrilleras, debióconvertirse en uno de los fugitivos más buscados y perseguidos por lapolicía y las fuerzas armadas de épocas dictatoriales, a las que casisiempre logró burlar con estrategias por cierto novelescas yarriesgadas. Raúl Sendic fue un Quijote de nuestro tiempo, habiendo contribuidodecididamente a que se preste atención y se mejore la vida de miles dehombres, mujeres y niños de nuestra campaña más desvalida. El Bebe Sendic fue un hombre insólito, de azarosa trayectoria y finaltrágico y heroico.Su gesta significó un punto de inflexión para el norte pobre del Uruguayde la segunda mitad del siglo xx. Se constituyó en el procurador quededicó su erudición, inteligencia y perspicacia a defender hasta lasúltimas consecuencias a los trabajadores rurales, explotados porempresarios y terratenientes que violaban sin escrúpulos cualquierrudimento de derecho laboral, dando a sus peones y jornaleros un tratotorpe y brutal.Es esa tarea de generosa nobleza la que asemeja a este oriundo deChamangá, Flores, a otro veterano de las proezas humanas, líder de otrospobres del pasado oriental: José Artigas. En su novela biográfica,Daniel Chavarría enfatiza esa imitación del prócer que tanto se propusoy consiguió su protagonista, aunque también el narrador insiste en queSendic mucho tuvo también del idealista caballero cervantino en ese afánimplacable por vengar agravios y ayudar a menesterosos.Fundador de la Unión de Trabajadores Azucareros de Artigas e incansableactivista en sindicatos diversos, pasó a ser pieza clave del Movimientode Liberación Nacional, Tupamaros. Por su lucha junto a los cañeros, susqueridos ?peludos?, y luego por sus acciones guerrilleras, debióconvertirse en uno de los fugitivos más buscados y perseguidos por lapolicía y las fuerzas armadas de épocas dictatoriales, a las que casisiempre logró burlar con estrategias por cierto novelescas yarriesgadas.
Don Shula: A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History
by Carlo DeVitoIn Don Shula: A Biography of the Winningest Coach in NFL History, acclaimed sports historian Carlo DeVito captures the story of one of the greatest coaches in sports history. First distinguishing himself as a player with the Cleveland Browns (under the great Paul Brown), Baltimore Colts, and Washington Redskins, Donald Francis Shula went on to be the boy wonder of the NFL as a coach. After serving for three seasons as the defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions, where he oversaw one of the NFL’s toughest units, Shula was named the youngest head coach in NFL history when he took over the Baltimore Colts in 1963. But after public feuding with star quarterback Johnny Unitas and owner Carroll Rosenbloom, and despite leading the team to two NFL championship games, Shula accepted the job as head coach of the perennial doormat Miami Dolphins in 1970. Within a few seasons, he took the Dolphins to three straight Super Bowls, winning twice, including the only undefeated Super Bowl championship season in 1972 behind a bruising running attack led by two 1,000 yard rushers, Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris, as well as the unheralded “No-Name Defense.” Shula won more games (328) than any other coach in NFL history, led his teams to six Super Bowls, and only posted a losing record twice in thirty-three seasons on the sideline. He was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997. Don Shula chronicles the life of one of the greatest minds ever to be involved with the game, from the dawn of modern football to the close of the twentieth century.
Don Vito: The Secret Life of the Mayor of the Corleonesi
by Massimo Ciancimino Francesco La LicataThis is the true story of Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone, the 'Mayor of the Corleones' - who spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of clandestine and previously censored contacts between politicians and the mafia - between the Italian State and the Cosa Nostra. The key witness is Massimo, the penultimate and hitherto closest of Don Vito's five children, who has given his personal testament for the first time. His account rewrites some of the most important events of Italy's recent history. In the words of Attilio Bolzoni of Republica: 'This is the portrait of a man who was a key player from post war Italy to our days in one of the most daunting of Italian affairs, a figure who inspired fear, a devil. He was friend with mafia bosses and great politicians, of killers and respectable gentlemen. Vito Ciancimino was the incarnation of power itself, maybe the most hated and feared, the most suspected and worshipped, man of Palermo and of the whole Sicilian society'. If Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah revealed the workings of the mafia system at street level, Francesco La Licata and Massimo Ciancimino's Don Vito tells us about the people who held the reins of power.
Don Vito: The Secret Life of the Mayor of the Corleonesi
by Francesco La Licata Massimo CianciminoThis is the true story of Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone, the 'Mayor of the Corleones' - who spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of clandestine and previously censored contacts between politicians and the mafia - between the Italian State and the Cosa Nostra. The key witness is Massimo, the penultimate and hitherto closest of Don Vito's five children, who has given his personal testament for the first time. His account rewrites some of the most important events of Italy's recent history. In the words of Attilio Bolzoni of Republica: 'This is the portrait of a man who was a key player from post war Italy to our days in one of the most daunting of Italian affairs, a figure who inspired fear, a devil. He was friend with mafia bosses and great politicians, of killers and respectable gentlemen. Vito Ciancimino was the incarnation of power itself, maybe the most hated and feared, the most suspected and worshipped, man of Palermo and of the whole Sicilian society'. If Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah revealed the workings of the mafia system at street level, Francesco La Licata and Massimo Ciancimino's Don Vito tells us about the people who held the reins of power.
Don Vito
by Francesco La Licata Massimo Ciancimino N. S. ThompsonThis is the true story of Vito Ciancimino--Don Vito da Corleone, the "Mayor of the Corleones"--who spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of clandestine and previously censored contacts between politicians and the mafia--between the Italian State and the Cosa Nostra. The key witness is Massimo, the penultimate and hitherto closest of Don Vito's five children, who has given his personal testament for the first time. His account rewrites some of the most important events of Italy's recent history. If Roberto Saviano's Gomorra revealed the workings of the mafia system from street level, Francesco La Licata and Massimo Ciancimino's Don Vito tells us about the people who held the reins of power. In the words of Attilio Bolzoni of Republica: "This is the portrait of a man who was a key player from post war Italy to our days in one of the most daunting of Italian affairs, a figure who inspired fear, a devil. He was friend with mafia bosses and great politicians, of killers and respectable gentlemen. Vito Ciancimino was the incarnation of power itself, maybe the most hated and feared, the most suspected and worshipped, man of Palermo and of the whole Sicilian society".
Doña María's Story: Life History, Memory, And Political Identity (Latin America Otherwise Series)
by Daniel James Walter D. Mignolo Sonia Saldívar-Hull Irene SilverblattIn this remarkable book historian Daniel James presents the gripping, poignant life-story of Doña María Roldán, a woman who lived and worked for six decades in the meatpacking community of Berisso, Argentina. A union activist and fervent supporter of Juan and Eva Perón, Doña María’s evocative testimony prompts James to analyze the promise and problematic nature of using oral sources for historical research. The book thus becomes both fascinating narrative and methodological inquiry. Doña María’s testimony is grounded in both the local context (based on the author’s thirteen years of historical and ethnographic research in Berisso) and a broader national narrative. In this way, it differs from the dominant genre of women’s testimonial literature, and much recent ethnographic work in Latin America, which have often neglected historical and communal contextualization in order to celebrate individual agency and self-construction. James examines in particular the ways that gender influences Doña María’s representation of her story. He is careful to acknowledge that oral history challenges the historian to sort through complicated sets of motivations and desires—the historian’s own wish to uncover “the truth” of an informant’s life and the interviewee’s hope to make sense of her or his past and encode it with myths of the self. This work is thus James’s effort to present his research and his relationship with Doña María with both theoretical sophistication and recognition of their mutual affection. While written by a historian, Doña María’s Story also engages with concerns drawn from such disciplines as anthropology, cultural studies, and literary criticism. It will be especially appreciated by those involved in oral, Latin American, and working-class history.
Doña Sofía: La Reina habla de su vida
by Carmen Enríquez Emilio OlivaDoña Sofía ha contestado sobre su pensamiento vital, sus inquietudes y preocupaciones. La Reina hace de guía del recorrido por su vida que realizan los periodistas Carmen Enríquez y Emilio Oliva. Durante dos largas sesiones, celebradas en el Palacio de la Zarzuela, Doña Sofía ha contestado a más de un centenar de preguntas que los autores le han formulado sobre su pasado, su presente y su forma de afrontar el futuro, sobre su pensamiento vital, sus inquietudes y preocupaciones, así como también acerca de sus gustos y aficiones personales. La Reina no ha rechazado ninguna de las cuestiones planteadas por los dos periodistas y ha abordado asuntos de tanta importancia como sus relaciones con la princesa Letizia, la separación de la infanta Elena, su relación con los medios de comunicación, el futuro de la monarquía en España o su postura ante problemas globales como la pobreza o el terrorismo. Los autores, que han seguido a Doña Sofía durante muchos años en el ejercicio de su trabajo como corresponsales ante la Casa Real, han hablado también con una veintena de personas directamente relacionadas con la Reina para completar un elaborado perfil biográfico que nos acerca a la personalidad de quien ha acompañado en todo momento al rey Juan Carlos en una etapa decisiva de la Historia de España.
Donal Lenihan: My Life in Rugby
by Donal LenihanAs player, manager, and pundit, Donal Lenihan has seen it all in the world of rugby - and done much of it too. A victorious captain of Munster Junior and Senior Schools, he went on to skipper the Ireland team at the inaugural Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in 1987 and was a fixture in the second row for over a decade, winning two Triple Crowns and three Five Nations championships. Selected for three British & Irish Lions tours, he was famous for skippering the unbeaten side nicknamed 'Donal's Doughnuts', before taking charge of both Ireland and the Lions as manager. From such a stellar position at the heart of the rugby world, Donal Lenihan has a wealth of stories to tell from both on and off the pitch, from raucous antics on tour to the sometimes difficult fellowship of players in a time of Troubles. He delves deeply into Cork and Munster culture and the influence on his career of his family. And as a much-respected analyst, Donal is also not short on voicing his opinion on the rights and wrongs of the modern game, and how the transition from the amateur to the professional era has affected the heart and soul of rugby.Full of wit, insight and emotional sincerity, this is a rugby book for the ages by a sporting great.
Donald Campbell: The Man Behind The Mask
by David TremayneGenerations are familiar with the haunting black and white television footage of Donald Campbell somersaulting to his death in his famous Bluebird boat on Coniston Water in January, 1967. It has become an iconic image of the decade. His towering achievements, and the drama of his passing, are thus part of the national psyche. But what of the man himself? The son of the legendary Sir Malcolm Campbell who was famous for being the ultimate record-breaker of the inter-war years - he broke the land speed record nine times and the water speed record four times with his Bluebird cars and boats - Donald Campbell was born to speed. He was outgoing and flamboyant, yet carefully orchestrated the image he presented to the world. Some saw him as a playboy adventurer; others, such as the radio producer on the twenty-first anniversary of his death, as a reckless daredevil with a death wish. He was known to take solace in extra-marital dalliances, and was obsessed with spiritualism. And in his final years, battered by a 360-mph accident while attempting the land record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, and his prolonged and anti-climactic subsequent effort on the treacherous Lake Eyre in Australia, Campbell appeared a haggard and often frightened man. He had become trapped on his record-breaker's treadmill as he continually sought to prove himself to his illustrious father, in whose long shadow he felt forever trapped. DONALD CAMPBELL: THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK paints a fascinating portrait of an intense, complex, superstitious yet abnormally brave man who was driven not only by the desire to prove that he was worthy of the mantle of his father, but also by his fervent and unswerving desire to keep Britain at the forefront of international speed endeavour. This book generates a unique insight into how his desperate fear of failure finally lured him into taking one risk too many.
Donald Creighton
by Donald WrightA member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was English Canada's first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it "had happened," he said, "the day before yesterday." And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Canada, the premier of Ontario, and - at least on one occasion - the British government.Yet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his times. As the nation was re-imagined along bilingual and later multicultural lines in the 1960s and 1970s, Creighton defended a British definition of Canada at the same time as he began to fear that he would be remembered only "as a pessimist, a bigot, and a violent Tory partisan."Through his virtuoso research into Creighton's own voluminous papers, Wright paints a sensitive portrait of a brilliant but difficult man. Ultimately, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.
Donald Dean VC: The Memoirs of a Volunteer & Territorial from Two World Wars
by Terry Crowdy Susan BavinDonald Dean lied about his age to enlist in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and serve on the Western Front, where he worked his way up from Private to acting Captain. It was in the last weeks of the war, late in September 1918, that he won his VC for leading a platoon in the determined defense of a recently captured and isolated trench against repeated German counterattacks. In one of these attacks, the Germans actually broke into the trench, forcing Dean to break off a radio call for artillery support with the words 'The Germans are here, goodbye!' Refusing to be overrun, he personally killed four of the Germans before they were finally evicted. Dean also served in World War II, witnessing the fall of France in 1940 and claiming to be the last Brit to get out of Boulogne. His frank account of the evacuation challenges some cherished conceptions and is very critical of the conduct of the Irish Guards in particular. He went on to fight in Madagascar, Sicilya and the Italian mainland. Donald Dean died in 1985.Military historian Terry Crowdy has edited Dean's letters and diaries, never previously published, adding additional notes and material from official reports to give the reader context. The result is a moving, often amusing and inspiring portrait of a little-known hero of two world wars.
Donald Hume: Notorious Bank Robber and Double Murderer
by Jonathan OatesFrom the bestselling author of John Christie of Rillington Place. &“If you have an interest in post war crime and criminals this is one for you!&” —Robert Bartlett, author of Blood Royal The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing car dealer Stanley Setty to death, of cutting up his corpse and dropping his body parts from an airplane. The press and public were horrified and fascinated by the details. But Hume was convicted and jailed as an accessory—he later claimed his wife was guilty of the crime. He then fled to Switzerland, taking up with a Swiss woman in Zurich, but he needed money to finance his lavish lifestyle and he returned to robbery. He carried out two armed robberies, shooting a member of the bank staff, but getting clean away. Then in 1959 his attempt to rob a bank failed and he shot dead a bystander. Arrested, he stood trial and was sentenced to life, but was later deemed criminally insane and was returned to Britain and to Broadmoor. Jonathan Oates&’s compelling account of Hume&’s notorious life of crime is based on extensive primary research. It sheds new light on Hume and his crimes, especially the murder of Setty, and gives the reader a rare insight into the criminal underworld of the time.
Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other
by Conrad BlackConrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, turns his attention to his "friend" President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and admirably concise, this is surely set to be one of the most provocative political books you are likely to read this year.
Donald Trump: The Candidate
by Gwenda BlairOn the hugely successful hit reality TV show The Apprentice, Donald Trump tells his contenders that location and pricing are supremely significant. But in his own life, there have been other maxims: Do whatever it takes to win. Don't spare the chutzpah. Always use the superlative. Make everything into an advertisement for yourself. Whatever happens, always claim victory. Following these personal commandments, he has turned bragging, self-inflation, and showing off into competitive advantages that have brought him national and international renown. In Donald Trump: Master Apprentice, best-selling author Gwenda Blair recounts a true-life history with more twists and turns than any television producer could possibly imagine. Towering skyscrapers and glittering casinos, a luxury airline and a football-field-size yacht, steamy affairs and bitter lawsuits, near bankruptcy and stormy feuds -- all this and more are part of the life of Trump. An adaptation and update of her definitive biography, The Trumps, this new book provides fresh material on Donald Trump's brushes with bankruptcy, mammoth construction projects, and ever-expanding place in American life. Drawing on recent interviews with the celebrated real estate magnate, his associates, his rivals, and contestants from his television show, Blair offers new insight into the man who seems to have it all. For the first time, we also get a glimpse of the person who will ultimately decide the fate of the Trump brand: Donald Trump, Jr. , the real-life apprentice who hopes to put his own imprint on his father's empire.
Donald Trump in Historical Perspective: Dead Precedents (Leadership: Research and Practice)
by Michael HarveyDonald Trump in Historical Perspective: Dead Precedents is a collection of chapters that utilizes the thinking of historians, philosophers, and political scientists to explore historical parallels to the presidency of Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America. This collection provides an extensive analysis on the ways Trump’s impulsiveness, breaking of norms, and disregard for longstanding democratic pieties, caused him to represent a definitive end to the "American century," an era when American self-confidence, steadiness, and leadership, even in the face of titanic challenges, were almost universally taken for granted. Yet this book also argues how in the longer sweep of history, Trump is a familiar figure in the turbulent life of democracies. These in-depth chapters reveal the ways Trump represents the anti-institutionalist, the populist demagogue, the would-be authoritarian who exploits electoral and political vulnerabilities to gain and hold power. Through these detailed evaluations, these chapters suggest that Trump is not radically unique, but that democracies have produced many previous versions of the Trump phenomenon. This book is essential reading for scholars and students in political science, political theory, history, and leadership. This book is also noteworthy for readers interested in key developments in contemporary American democracy. One of its greatest appeals is its extensive look into leadership on an international scale, from Donald Trump’s global significance to various explorations of non-American leaders, and the comparisons that can be made.
Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
by Michael S. SchmidtWith unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter continues to break news about the most important political story of our lives as he chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him. <p><p> In the early days of the Trump presidency, the people who work in the institutions that make America America saw Trump up close in the Oval Office and became convinced that they had to stand up to an unbound president. These officials faced a situation without parallel in American history: What do you do, and who do you call, if you are the only one standing between the president, his extraordinary powers, and the abyss? <p> Michael S. Schmidt’s Donald Trump v. The United States tells the dramatic, high-stakes story of those who felt compelled to confront and try to contain the most powerful man in the world as he shredded norms and sought to expand his power. <p> Schmidt has broken many of the major stories of the Trump era, from the news of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account to the report on former FBI director James Comey’s contemporaneous memos of conversations with Trump that led directly to the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Now he takes us inside the defining events of the presidency, chronicles them up close, and records the clash between an increasingly emboldened president and those around him, who find themselves trying to thwart the president they had pledged to serve, unsure whether he is acting in the interest of the country, his ego, his family business, or Russia. Through their eyes and ears, we observe an epic struggle. <p> Drawing on secret FBI and White House documents and confidential sources inside federal law enforcement and the West Wing, Donald Trump v. The United States is vital journalism, recording the shocking reality of a presidency like no other, a riveting contemporary history, and a lasting account of just how fragile and vulnerable the institutions of American democracy really are. <p> <b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Donal's Mountain: How One Son Inspired a Nation
by Fionnbar Walsh'Donal Walsh was able to see the beauty in life. He spent his valuable time helping us to open our eyes' Cecelia Ahern, authorDonal Walsh lost his battle against cancer in May 2013, but he left behind an extraordinary legacy. In his short life, he had fought the disease on three occasions with bravery and determination, but he had also come to national attention when he spoke out about suicide in young people in an RTE television interview and, later, in an article in a national newspaper. Donal was determined to open people's eyes to the beauty of life and to help them to see that death is never an answer.His words provoked a national reaction and had real and lasting results - in his death, Donal made us question ourselves and the way we live our lives. Before he died, he asked that his parents continue to spread the message of living life. Here, in this heartbreaking and inspirational memoir, his father Fionnbar gives voice to Donal in a testament to an exceptional young man and to a lasting legacy.
Donal's Mountain: The Story of the Son Who Inspired a Nation
by Fionnbar WalshDonal Walsh first came to international attention in Ireland aged sixteen, when a letter he wrote speaking out against the suicide epidemic in young people was published in the Irish Sunday Independent. At the time Donal was dying of cancer having battled it since the age of twelve through invasive and painful chemo treatments and operations. Donal had no choice about dying - and he wanted others to see that death is not an answer. With only a few weeks to live, Donal went on television and again spoke about the importance of living and of finding help in times of trouble. A few short weeks later, on May 12th 2013, Donal lost his battle with cancer and passed away. In this sometimes heart-breaking but ultimately inspirational book we see the boy behind the illness and hear the story of how one young boy from County Kerry who, in dying, shows us how to live life. From the close bonds he had with his parents, his sister and young friends, to the unique and inspirational outlook he had on life we hear of how he came to terms with his illness and how he spent his last weeks making as much of a difference to other people's lives as he could. All Donal asked before he died was that his parents continue his legacy and the message of the importance of living life. This book is his legacy.
Donal's Mountain: The Story of the Son Who Inspired a Nation
by Fionnbar WalshDonal Walsh first came to international attention in Ireland aged sixteen, when a letter he wrote speaking out against the suicide epidemic in young people was published in the Irish Sunday Independent. At the time Donal was dying of cancer having battled it since the age of twelve through invasive and painful chemo treatments and operations. Donal had no choice about dying - and he wanted others to see that death is not an answer. With only a few weeks to live, Donal went on television and again spoke about the importance of living and of finding help in times of trouble.A few short weeks later, on May 12th 2013, Donal lost his battle with cancer and passed away.In this sometimes heart-breaking but ultimately inspirational book we see the boy behind the illness and hear the story of how one young boy from County Kerry who, in dying, shows us how to live life.From the close bonds he had with his parents, his sister and young friends, to the unique and inspirational outlook he had on life we hear of how he came to terms with his illness and how he spent his last weeks making as much of a difference to other people's lives as he could.All Donal asked before he died was that his parents continue his legacy and the message of the importance of living life. This book is his legacy.
Donasses: Vint-i-dues dones de pes, protagonistes de la Catalunya moderna
by Marta PessarrodonaSi Pla tenia homenots la Marta té donasses, una munió de dones admirables i admirades a les quals ella ha sabut atribuir-los expressament el mot que les defineix. El títol ha donat peu a l'entrada donassa [donása] al Diccionari Normatiu Valencià, «f. Dona que destaca per la seua gran aportació intel·lectual, artística o cívica». Dolors Montserdà, Carmen Karr, Caterina Albert, Francesca Bonnemaison, Margarita Xirgu, Clementina Arderiu, Aurora Bertrana, Lola Anglada, Conxita Badia, Hermínia Grau, Frederica Montseny, Paulina Pi de la Serra, Remedios Varo, Mercè Rodoreda, Irene Polo, Carme Serrallonga, Carme Leveroni, Aurora Díaz Plaja, Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Maria Àngels Anglada, Mercè Vilaret i Montserrat Roig: descobrim les vides de les protagonistes de la Catalunya moderna des d'una perspectiva informativa molt entretinguda i divertida que capta la complicitat del lector i hi dialoga.Un clàssic de les lletres catalanes revisat i actualitzat amb un epíleg en què s'inclouen totes les donasses que ens han deixat d'ençà de la primera edició de l'any 2006 a Destino.
La doncella de Lady Astor: Mi vida al servicio de una dama
by Rosina HarrisonLas memorias de la doncella de una de las grandes aristócratas europeas, mujer avanzada en su tiempo por ser la primera parlamentaria. «Además de mis experiencias en el servicio doméstico, este libro trata de mucha gente, y especialmente de una persona, Lady Nancy Astor. Se ha escrito bastante sobre la vida política y personal de mi señora. Algunos la alababan y otros han sido brutalmente críticos. Con mi narración pretendo ofrecer la visión que sus sirvientes tenían de ella, no la opinión de colegas y amistades de su clase. Mi vida con la señora fue un constante desafío y un conflicto continuado que disfrutamos inmensamente a pesar de hacernos daño la una a la otra de vez en cuando. Aunque nos separaban la posición y el dinero, teníamos caracteres parecidos y creo poder decir que siempre hubo un respeto mutuo.»Rosina Harrison Reseñas:«Ninguna serie de televisión podría llegar a desarrollar una historia semejante, llena de conflictos, odio y amor, como la relación de Rose y su señora.»Evening Standard «Fascinante, franca, respetuosa, amable pero punzante: un documento valiosísimo sobre la relación entre señora y doncella, opuestas en estatus pero iguales en temperamento.»Sunday Telegraph
Donde no hago pie
by Belén López PeiróCrónica del duro proceso que sigue a la denuncia de un abuso familiar y que implica enfrentar los prejuicios de la sociedad y los obstáculos de la justicia. «Contemporáneo en su estilo breve y fragmentario -donde se cruzan diario, imágenes, géneros y lenguajes diversos-, esta novela lírica y vertiginosa revoluciona la no ficción en sus formas y temas».Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Después de un año sin noticias, una llamada desde la Fiscalía anuncia que, finalmente, la denuncia por abuso sexual ha sido elevada a juicio. Esa mañana invernal comienza para la narradora otro duro proceso: encontrar representación legal, entender las lógicas burocráticas de la Justicia, tejer redes de apoyo para afrontar la causa contra su tío, un comisario poderoso, y juntar coraje para reabrir un expediente que lleva al pasado familiar. Sin demagogias, Belén López Peiró revisa los contornos difusos de los recuerdos; ensaya respuestas al agobio de audiencias humillantes e indaga en los laberintos de los juicios por jurado. Donde no hago pie profundiza el proyecto literario de Por qué volvías cada verano, antecedente clave de miles de denuncias anónimas y otras de enorme repercusión mediática. Con un ritmo avasallante, esta crónica encuentra las palabras para transformar en acción política un delito que pretendía permanecer secreto. Sobre Por qué volvías cada verano, la crítica dijo: «Uno de los 18 mejores libros del año».Revista Rolling Stone «De una contundencia expresiva increíble».Mauro Libertella, La Agenda «Una de las autoras del año».Carolina Amoroso, TN «Uno de los textos más valientes y más crudos que apareció recientemente».Agustina Larrea, Infobae
Dongri to Dubai - Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia: Six Decades Of The Mumbai Mafia
by S. Hussain ZaidiDongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the story of notorious gangsters like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, but above all, it is the story of a young man who went astray despite having a father in the police force. Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and went on to wipe out the competition and eventually became the Mumbai police’s own nemesis.The narrative encompasses several milestones in the history of crime in India, from the rise of the Pathans, formation of the Dawood gang, the first ever supari, mafia’s nefarious role in Bollywood, Dawood’s move to Karachi, and Pakistan’s subsequent alleged role in sheltering one of the most wanted persons in the world. This story is primarily about how a boy from Dongri became a don in Dubai, and captures his bravado, focus, ambition, and lust for power in a gripping narrative. The meticulously researched book provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the mafia’s games of supremacy and internecine warfare.
Dönitz, U-boats, Convoys: The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty's Secret Anti-Submarine Reports
by Jak P. Mallmann ShowellThis unique WWII history combines the memoirs of a Nazi Admiral with secret British naval reports for a comprehensive view of the U-Boat war. The memoirs of Admiral Karl Dönitz, Ten Years and Twenty Days, are a fascinating first-hand account of the Battle of the Atlantic as seen from the headquarters of the U-boat fleet. Now, noted naval historian Jak P. Mallmann Showell has combined Dönitz's memoirs in a parallel text with the British Admiralty's secret Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports to produce a unique view of the U-boat war as it was perceived at the time by both sides. The British Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports were classified documents issued only to senior officers hunting U-boats. They were supposed to have been returned to the Admiralty and destroyed at the end of the War, but by chance a set survived in the archives of the Royal Navy's Submarine Museum in Gosport. They offer significant and hitherto unavailable insight into the British view of the Battle of the Atlantic as it was being fought. With expert analysis of these firsthand sources from opposing sides of the conflict, Jak P. Mallmann Showell presents what may be the most complete contemporary account of the desperate struggle in the North Atlantic during the Second World War.