Títulos en Política

Standing over the body of a Supreme Court nominee, Lieutenant Sam Holland is hip-deep in another high-profile murder case. That she was one of the last people to see Julian Sinclair alive only complicates things even more. With her relationship with Senator Nick Cappuano heating up, they’re attracting a lot of unwanted media attention and blinding flashbulbs. The pressure is on for Sam to find Sinclair’s killer, but a new lead in her father’s unsolved shooting puts her in unexpected danger. 

Washington, DC, Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career - and her confidence - after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O’Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed and she’s assigned to the case. Things get complicated when she has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O’Connor’s friend and chief of staff...and the man she had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case.

Published in 1888 to immediate popularity, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism, and presents a depiction of a socialist utopia. The novel’s protagonist, aristocrat Julian West, falls into a deep, hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000 to find a very different Boston from the one he knows. In Dr. Leete he finds a guide who explains the humane and efficient society in which he now finds himself - its transformation made possible by political and technological advances.

Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at their family estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative.

Boy Genius is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of post-war Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government - before being banished to America. From a remote New York city ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war against all symbols of authority.

En Hualacato, pueblito ficticio del noroeste argentino, los habitantes perdieron todas sus libertades. Nabu, un "percusionista" que se escuda en su obligación de cumplir órdenes, fue designado como el salvador de la familia Aballay, a quien estos deben aceptar de buen grado para evitar represalias. Cuando les prohíbe la comunicación entre los propios miembros de la familia, los Aballay se ven forzados a crear un código secreto de sonidos, señas y gestos para lograr sobrevivir a los castigos físicos y psicológicos.

Crónicas desde el país de la gente más feliz de la Tierra es una divertida y amarga sátira política sobre la corrupción en forma de novela de misterio. En una Nigeria imaginaria, pero muy parecida a la real, un grupo de pícaros, predicadores, emprendedores y políticos se ve inmerso en una trama sobre tráfico de miembros humanos robados de un hospital.

Dans la Famille sans nom (et sans liberté dans son destin), l’auteur Jules Verne nous entraîne dans ces familles qui ont vu leurs rêves d’autonomie politique brisés par la force coloniale britannique. Au Québec, référendums perdus, répression de la crise d’octobre 1970 allumée par le Front de Libération du Québec, les Patriotes de 1837: même combat, même déception. Un livre au cœur des colères du Québec.

Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.

"Más cornadas da el hambre" es la historia de unos aprendices a torero, particularmente de Luis y sus dificultades ante la competencia y el poder corrupto de los empresarios e intermediarios; lo que deben hacer para poder presentarse en plazas de importancia y así convertirse en figuras del toreo.

Following the worst terrorist attacks in American history on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush pledged to bring those responsible to justice, especially the mastermind, Osama bin Laden. After failing to capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan, George W. Bush shifted his attention and that of his country to Saddam Hussein and Iraq, neither of which had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks (as history has proven).

“Alltså när jag säger att det inte ska vara musik som visas på MTV eller ZTV, så menar jag att det inte ska vara modern musik. Förstår ni? Eller det kan vara modernt. Dragan, du till exempel. Vad lyssnar du på hemma?” “De e blandat, asså så.” “Ja, det förstår jag, men du lyssnar på nått från Jugoslavien kanske?” vädjade Carina.

Italia, 1972. Dopo quattordici anni trascorsi tra i corridoi polverosi di un soffocante archivio alla periferia di Milano, Andrea Ferrante è ormai rassegnato al suo dignitoso quanto anonimo ruolo di piccolo funzionario politico, ben lontano dalla radiosa carriera cui un tempo sembrava destinato. Il rapporto con la moglie Sandra si trascina stancamente. Con suo figlio Umberto, poco più di qualche sporadico litigio.

The first of two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in scope and exuberant in style in the best tradition of Latin American literature, this book roots its readers in the ebullience of Mexico's daily life and language, even as they are made to confront the horrors of history, to examine the difficulties of friendship and family.

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

The Mexican American War has ended, but in a California divided between two nations, Anglo squatters continue to antagonize citizens of Mexican descent by making claims on their land. Against this charged backdrop, the lives of the Alamar family - the rightful owners of a San Diego ranch - become politically, economically, and romantically entwined with a family of New England settlers, the Darrells. Inspired by experiences in her own life, Ruiz de Burton insightfully captured a troubling time in American history - a period of intense corruption, greed, racism, and classism.

In Admit This to No One, we meet a group of women connected to a central figure either personally or professionally, and for better or for worse - an all-powerful and elusive speaker of the House, whose political career has only stopped short of being presidential due to his myriad extra-marital affairs. The speaker’s daughters from his several failed marriages have a complicated relationship with him to say the least - alternating between longing for his affection or bristling with resentment, and occasionally relief at being left out of the spotlight.

Mariam is pregnant and fleeing an abusive marriage as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. Leaving her husband, Tareq, for dead, she crosses the border and is evacuated with the help of Raj, whom she meets at a refugee camp and who suggests she assume the identity of his dead wife so she can be issued Indian papers. Twenty-five years later, Mariam is still living under the identity of Raj’s Indian wife in the US.

சமூக அவலங்களைச் சுட்டிக் காட்டுவதுடன் நாம் எங்கே போகவேண்டும். என்ற பாதையையும் தெளிவாக்கிக் காட்டுகிறது, இந்நாவல்.

Estalla el golpe militar y, entre otras figuras políticas y militares de la época, Augusto Pinochet decide defender el gobierno de Salvador Allende. Estalla el golpe militar y, entre otras figuras políticas y militares de la época, Augusto Pinochet decide defender el gobierno de Salvador Allende. La oposición fracasa y, para fortalecer las comunicaciones y los sistemas de vigilancia, surge el innovador proyecto Synco: una red cibernética que dice optimizar el manejo del Estado y la economía chilena.