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UN VERDADERO HÉROE, AUNQUE ESTE LUCHANDO CONTRA SUS PROPIAS TRAGEDIAS, SIEMPRE ESTÁ DISPUESTO AYUDAR A LOS DEMÁS.La Verdadera Odisea, es una historia real sobre el amor y las tragedias de su protagonista. Su cadena interrumpida de fatalidades se inicio al nacer en un parto prematuro.Su llegada a este mundo se inauguro con el abandono de su padre. Desde ese dia, las personas que lo amaban incluyendo a su madre, terminarian en un final tragico.Durante su vida militar y meses despues como escolta, los ataques del destino en contra de las personas que amaba siguieron en aumento. Varios de sus compañeros fueron asesinados y su mejor amigo, Carrillo, se suicido de un tiro de fusil.

Una frase recorre este convulsionado siglo XXI y se la debemos a Antonio Gramsci: lo viejo está muriendo y lo nuevo no ha nacido todavía, y en ese intervalo aparecen los monstruos. Encarcelado por orden de Mussolini desde 1926, Gramsci veia que la crisis

Este es un libro de testimonio personal, donde el autor -medico jubilado- relata las contingencias acaecidas durante el tratamiento de radioterapia que debe recibir por mor de un cáncer de próstata. Con un estilo sencillo, directo y desenfadado, aprovecha su condicion de medico para explicarnos de una manera entendible los entresijos que subyacen a este tumor tan frecuente entre los varones añosos. Y consigue con ello quitar hierro al asunto. Ademas, desde la optica de paciente incognito que tambien adopta, nos ofrece una vision realista, a la vez que conmovedora, de las vicisitudes y tribulaciones por las que han de pasar los pacientes ",sufridores", y estigmatizados por el cancer. El relato, salpicado de humor, pero tambien de reflexiones serias sobre nuestra sanidad, la etica e, incluso, la politica, nos acerca ademas a la propia biografia del autor: a su familia, sus amigos, el seminario donde se formo y a Valme, su hospital.

Entertaining...essential...peppered with brilliant observations' Tim Shipman, Sunday Times Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation. In Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10, Gimson sets out to discover how a man dismissed as a liar, charlatan and tasteless joke was able, despite being written off more frequently than any other British politician of the twenty-first century, to become prime minister. During his ascent, Johnson benefited from being regarded as a clown, for this meant his opponents failed to take him seriously, while his supporters delighted in his ability to shock and enrage the Establishment.He even changed the language of politics; a new word, 'cakeism', entered the English lexicon to describe his implausible but seductive claim during the Brexit negotiations that it was possible to have one's cake and eat it. In a series of brilliant vignettes, Gimson sheds light on the parts played by sex, greed, boredom and low seriousness in Johnson's rise and fall, describes how Partygate fatally imperilled his prime ministership, and places him in a line of Tory adventurers stretching back to Benjamin Disraeli: disreputable figures who often blew themselves up, but who also could display an astonishing ability to connect with the British public. What kind of a person is Johnson? What kind of a country would dream of making him its prime minister? And why did he fall? Nobody has got closer than Gimson to finding out the answers.

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the first....full of wit, joy, vivid vignettes and useful insights...she has another bestseller on her hands' India Knight, Sunday Times'It's great to have another memoir from Lady Glenconner . . .as open-minded and entertaining as she clearly is' Lynn Barber, Sunday Telegraph'A jolly anecdote for every day of the year and excellent advice' Hilary Rose, The Times'As glorious and highly readable as its predecessor - as well as being packed full of new stories' ipaper'Full of eye-popping detail' Sophia Money-Coutts, Daily Telegraph'Charm itself' Spectator'Anne Glenconner returns to charts her fascinating life and the hard-won lessons learnt in diplomacy, marriage and motherhood' Tatler.comBracing honesty, rare insight and hilarious revelations from internationally bestselling author of LADY IN WAITING as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Anne Glenconner's glittering life hasn't always been golden. As she revealed in her astonishing bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting, it has been one of stark contrasts - from growing up in the splendour of Holkham Hall to living in a tent in the jungle of Mustique, from travelling the world with Princess Margaret to coping with her wildly unpredictable husband Lord Glenconner.Tragically, she has also survived the loss of two of her sons and nursed a third son back from a coma. Now in her ninetieth year, and at her happiest, Anne brings her bracing honesty, characteristic wit and courage to reflect on and reveal more about her long and unexpected life, her extremely volatile marriage, and what it's taught her. As a wife, she became a master in the art of keeping the peace, knowing when to pick her battles, when she needed help - and when to take a lover.

Este segundo volumen que consta de una completa documentación recoge noticias muy numerosas y detalladas sobre su actuación en las diferentes etapas de los veinte años en que fue figura de gran relieve en el panorama politico de la Corona hispana.

Una mujer convencida por sus compañeros de trabajo de ser una perturbada mental acude al psiquiatra en busca de respuestas.

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best'Compelling . . .Fascinating' DAILY MAIL'The writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals' THE TIMES'The book overflows with nuggets of insider knowledge' TELEGRAPHPaints a unique picture of the remarkable woman who reigned for seven decades. Fascinating insights' HELLO!__________Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events.Through his friendship with the Duke of Edinburgh, he was given privileged access to Elizabeth II. He kept a record of all those encounters, and his conversations with the Queen over the years, his meetings with her family and friends, and his observations of her at close quarters are what make this very personal account of her extraordinary life uniquely fascinating. From her childhood in the 1920s to the era of Harry and Meghan in the 2020s, from her war years at Windsor Castle to her death at Balmoral, this is both a record of a tumultuous century of royal history and a truly intimate portrait of a remarkable woman.

August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship's crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness.In this epic tale, Julian Sancton unfolds a story of adventure gone horribly awry. As the crew teetered on the brink, the Captain increasingly relied on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity - Dr. Frederick Cook, the wild American whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship's first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, who later raced Captain Scott to the South Pole. Together, Cook and Amundsen would plan a last-ditch, desperate escape from the ice-one that would either etch their names into history or doom them to a terrible fate in the frozen ocean.

El 11 de septiembre de 1973, Orlando Letelier era Ministro de Defensa y acudió a su puesto de alta responsabilidad sin inclinarse ante las voces de quienes habían ocupado el Ministerio y ordenaban a las tropas que disparasen sobre sus propios conciudadanos. El mismo dia en que la ciudadania chilena iba a ser convocada para expresarse en las urnas, las bombas y las balas sembraron la muerte en el Palacio de La Moneda, iniciando el politicidio que se mantendria durante lustroso En septiembre de 1975, Letelier respondia a determinadas cuestiones que le planteaba Joan E. Garces para aclarar aspectos, situaciones y actuaciones de algunos personajes en torno a aquellos hechos. Este testimonio oral es una pieza de indudable valor. Orlando Letelier evoca, en la cinta magnetofonica cuya transcripcion se ofrece ahora, las situaciones vividas en, aquellas fechas, y proporciona claves que invalidan o rectifican numerosas paginas publicadas sobre aquellos episodios. Una bomba termino con la vida de Orlando Letelier el 21 de septiembre de 1976. El castigo de sus asesinos coincide con la negociacion, en 1995, entre Chile y los Estados miembros del Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte (NAFTA).

Felipe I fue un rey fugaz, aunque él fue también quien introdujo en nuestra historia la dinastía austríaca que rigió nuestro destino durante dos siglos. Felipe de Castilla, apodado en su época el Hermoso por sus cualidades fisicas, es un monarca practicamente desconocido, hasta el punto de que llega a desconocerse como y por que legitimos derechos debia ocupar junto a su esposa, Juana de Castilla, una corona y reinar, tal como ya hacia en sus Estados de Borgoña. Su venida a España estuvo acompañada de sobresaltos, por cuanto significo un cambio politico y cierto choque de mentalidades.