Títulos em Político

Por trás da aparência poderosa de Vittorio Tommaso, candidato a governador da Sicília, existe um homem quebrado por um passado repleto de mentiras e traições. Vittorio se sente incapaz de confiar nas pessoas e, por isso, quando sua equipe sugere que ele deve se casar, sua primeira resposta é um simples não. No entanto, o entendimento de que isso aumentaria suas chances de se eleger fez ele ceder.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, "A little, true book, both beneficial and enjoyable, about how things should be in the new island Utopia") is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Com a morte de seu Presidente, a população de Novamazônia, uma jovem nação, situada no coração da floresta amazônica, se vê numa inédita situação: pela primeira vez, em trinta anos, escolheriam um novo Presidente, através de eleições diretas. Dois candidatos disputam o cargo: Júnior Pedrosa, conservador; e Ophelia Marabaixo, progressista. Para vencer, um dos candidatos precisa conquistar os votos dos eleitores de Pouso Alegre, uma ilha fluvial, na qual o lixo da capital, Londonésia, é despejado.

Os escritores de cartas à mão armada da autoria de Olufunke Ogundimu é uma estória sobre uma comunidade nigeriana que recebe cartas de assaltantes à mão armada a anunciar a sua chegada e uma lista de pertences que tencionam levar. Os assaltantes também enviam cópias destas cartas à polícia, aconselhando as suas potenciais vítimas a não se incomodarem. Usando o pronome colectivo “nós”, Ogundimu retrata efectivamente, com um sentido de humor peculiar, a confusão colectiva e a determinação de civis indefesos e o estado lamentável do policiamento no país.

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable.

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chilvary Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility. So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways.

A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London.

"I promessi sposi" è un capolavoro della letteratura Italiana scritto nel XIX secolo da Alessandro Manzoni e uno dei romanzi storici più importanti del mondo. La storia si svolge nella Milano del XVII secolo e narra della vita e delle avventure di una coppia di giovani contadini lombardi, Renzo e Lucia, che non possono sposarsi a causa delle mire di un vizioso e prepotente tiranno locale e della codardia del parroco del loro villaggio.

It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience.

1977: Das Attentat einer jungen Frau erschüttert Karlsruhe. 2022: Die engagierte Studentin Hanna ist Klimaaktivistin mit hohen Zielen und viel Wut im Bauch. Eine unerwartete Nachricht führt sie zum Familienurlaub auf die Insel Kreta, wo eine schicksalhafte Begegnung die Geister der Vergangenheit heraufbeschwört. Hanna ist gezwungen, die Weichen für ihr Leben neu zu stellen.

Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city programme – Big Apple, Big Heart – that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Liberal to the extreme, Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is sceptical. A classic live-at-home, unemployed Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents the interruption which sees him suffer the indignity of moving out of the self-contained basement flat, and back into his childhood bedroom.

1900: Aufbruch, Fortschritt, Optimismus – die Heirat der englischen Industriellentochter Claire mit dem Berliner Unternehmersohn Friwi ist ein Sinnbild des modernen Europas. Doch während Friwi in China und Afrika für Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Weltmacht kämpft, streitet Claire für die Rechte der Frauen. Wird sie Kaspar je vergessen, der sich in Paris und St. Petersburg der Revolution verschrieben hat? Noch wetteifern bei Segelregatten nur die Jachten der Könige um den Sieg.

¿Es posible ser a la vez un rico y ladino banquero y un anarquista consumado que lucha por la liberación de la sociedad? Según Pessoa, sí. Es lo que intenta demostrar El banquero anarquista , un sorprendente relato publicado en 1922. La producción literaria pessoana, como violenta suma de excepciones que es, nos enfrenta a menudo a la excepción de la excepción. Es insólita en verso y en prosa. Y lo es hasta el punto de que hay textos cuyo origen parece nescrutable.

The world has changed. The UK no longer exists with Brexit completed, Scotland, and Wales both becoming independent countries and the north and south becoming one united Ireland, England now stands alone. There are now only two political parties in England: The Conservative and Royalist Party, and the Republican Labour Party. After the death of her husband Queen Elizabeth II abdicated passing the crown directly to her eldest Grandson who has become King William V.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile's leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Told from across the years in exile in Europe, the narrator's attempts to trace the fate of his old circle will lead him to one last confrontation with the brutality of their generation.

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the 'wizened youth' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.

Man beraubt sie der Früchte ihrer Arbeit, sperrt sie ein, beutet sie aus. Die Tiere auf dem Gutshof haben genug und proben den Aufstand - für eine bessere Welt, in der alle Tiere gleich und frei sind. Doch bald zeigt sich: Gleich heißt nicht gleich, und Freiheit ist ein kurzer Traum.

When Jim Martini goes back to his WV hometown to see why its major employer failed suddenly he finds more than a failed company. He risks his life, finds a lost love, and stumbles into an international conspiracy. A Chinese revolutionary group is using viruses, hacking, malware and cyber-technology to over-throw its own government and attempt to control the US—by shutting down all forms of computers and communications—all at once. Suddenly nothing works—communications are "silenced."