Historia y biografías
Ian Fleming's Commandos
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In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence the dynamic figure behind James Bond s fictional chief, M . Here, Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line (...)
Everybody Loves Our Town
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Grunge, also known as the Seattle sound , is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight success of Nirvana s single Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the fall of 1991, that made (...)
Memorial
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Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its nobility , as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its bright unbearable reality (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped (...)
The Black Book
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The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, it is a labyrinthine novel suffused with the sights, sounds and scents of (...)
Snow
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As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective. When the (...)
Istanbul
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Turkey s greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul the city of his birth and the home of his imagination. An extraordinary and transcendentally beautiful book . . . It is a long time since I (...)
William Wordsworth
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the (...)
Corsarios berberiscos
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Desde que Oruch Barbarroja, un aventurero de origen greco-turco, conquistó Argel, la ciudad se convirtió en un reino creado y desarrollado alrededor de una actividad: la piratería. Durante los siglos XVI, XVII y en menor medida el XVIII, sus corsarios asolaron las costas cristianas y abordaron (...)
La paradoja del mentiroso
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Ramiro Feijoo se convierte en discípulo del gran escritor Enrique Vilá-Matas, que le enseñará el oficio mediante un peculiar método: redactar relatos mentirosos. Y es que, según él, cuanto más mentirosos, más verdaderos. Ramiro accede, pero no entiende nada.
Wink
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"May be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history."--Charles Osgood, anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning"Winkfield's story is so incredible you'll find yourself wondering why you've never heard it before."--MSNBC"Winkfield's life (is) an unbelievable ride."--ESPN"For once, a book's (...)