-Titulo Original : Behind The Enigma The Authorised History Of Gchq, Britain’s Secret Cyber-intelligence Agency-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: You know about MI5. You know about MI6.Now discover the untold stories behind Britains most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ.For a hundred years, GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - has been at the forefront of innovation in national security and British secret statecraft. Famed for its codebreaking achievements during the Second World War, and essential to the Allied victory, GCHQ also held a critical role in both the Falklands War and Cold War. Today, amidst the growing threats of terrorism and online crime, GCHQ continues to be the UKs leading intelligence, security and cyber agency, and a powerful tool of the British state.Based on unprecedented access to classified archives, Behind the Enigma is the first book to authoritatively tell the entire history of this most unique and enigmatic of organisations - and peer into its future at the heart of the nations security...

-Titulo Original : Dancing With The Octopus A Memoir Of A Crime-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Debora Harding grew up in the Midwest and then spent three decades immersed in Washington politics. While cycling across America she met her English husband. She is mother of two children and is now a full-time writer and activist. She splits her time between the United States and Great Britain. For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire.One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city.Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.It wasn’t until decades later when beset by the symptoms of PTSD that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her.Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family’s disintegration in the 1970s Midwest.Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive. Review Bravely looks at her family trauma and the hope of restorative justice combining wit, drama, and deep self-reflection to investigate the aftershocks of a devastating crime. - Oxygen, “The Best True Crime Books Of 2020 For Holiday Gifting”“This moving story of grit and resilience will resonate with readers long after the final page is turned.” Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“A gripping memoir, Dancing With the Octopus is both a heartbreaking reconstruction of a crime and a powerful account of healing from trauma.” Electric Lit, Most Anticipated Debuts of the Second Half of 2020Harding’s writing is exquisite, often funny… This book is personal, deeply and bravely thoughtful, and creatively expressed. . . . it can serve as a tool for the politically engaged. - New York Journal of Books“Darkly humorous . . . Harding draws a complex web of interlinked experiences to show how suffering can set up shop for good in a family and a town. Dancing With the Octopus joins a host of recent true crime memoirs dedicated to grounding crimes in a wider framework of social and familial contexts.” CrimeReads “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020”“Dancing with the Octopus is a brave and authentic picture of the tailwinds of trauma, the limits of human forgiveness and what it takes to maintain hope in a world bent on breaking us. Highly readable, and deeply moving.” Rachel Louise Snyder, award-winning author of NO VISIBLE BRUISES“An incredible book … Debora writes with a lightness of touch that belies the heavy lifting in a work of such magnitude and power.” Philip Selway of Radiohead on TwitterThis is a fantastic memoir . . . beautifully written and it’s an excellent example of trauma’s long hold on people. . . . An incredible look at depression and parenthood and forgiveness. . . . It is excellent. - Bookriots All the Books Podcast“A gripping account of one womans confrontation with the terror and heartbreak of her past. Harding combines true crime and family saga to illustrate the aftershocks of trauma, and the courage, tenderness, and humor that recovery re...

-Titulo Original : Dark, Salt, Clear The Life Of A Fishing Town-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Lamorna Ash is an education worker and a freelance writer for the Times Literary Supplement and TANK magazine. She has a degree in English from Oxford and a masters in social and cultural anthropology from the University College London. She has written numerous plays that have toured Edinburgh, Oxford, and London. She can gut most kinds of fish, quite slowly. Dark, Salt, Clear is her first book. She lives in London. From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful.Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing village at the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female on board a trawler called the Filadelfia, she is heading out to sea with the dome of the sky above and the black waves below.Newlyn is a town of dramatic cliffs, crashing tides, and hardcore career fishermen-complex and difficult heroes who slowly open up to Ash about their lives and frustrations, first in the condensed space of the boat, and then in the rough pubs ashore. Determined to know the community on its own terms, Ash lodges in a spare room by the harbor and lets the village wash over her in all of its clamoring unruliness, thumping machinery, and tangled nets-its history, dialect, and centuries-old industry.Moving between Ashs surprising, transformational journey aboard the Filadelfia and her astute observations of Newlyns landscape and people, Dark, Salt, Clear is an assured work of indelible characters and a multilayered travelogue through a landscape both lovely and merciless. Ashs adventurous glint, her delicate observations, and her willingness to get under the skin of a place call to mind the work of Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, and Robert Macfarlane. This is an evocative journey and a fiercely auspicious debut. Review Dark, Salt, Clear is an extraordinary debut, a deeply researched and deeply felt work of narrative nonfiction. It is the kind of book that ziplines readers to a different world. You’ll feel the damp sea air and smell the fish and ale in this vivid, multifaceted portrait of a hardworking, hard-drinking town and its salty residents, intimately connected to one another and to every aspect of its sea-to-market fishing industry. Ms. Ash explores questions about work, life and community and in so doing reflects on her own choices. On top of everything else, this book charts the author’s own passage to maturity as she re-evaluates what matters to her. - Wall Street Journal“I love this town and I love this book-both are imbued with the unadorned lessons of hard earned lives.” Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Paper“A gripping and affecting debut . . . Ashs remarkably empathetic take on a small town and its outsized contribution to the fishing industry is one to savor.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)“An engaging book debut . . . Ash deftly weaves her own reflections with those of many other writers, including W.G. Sebald, Elizabeth Bishop, Walter Benjamin, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, and Barry Lopez, as she considers the indelible connection of identity to geography. A graceful, lovely homage to people and place.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Lamorna Ash is a beautiful prose stylist-precise, perceptive, humane and sensitive-who somehow manages to write in a way that is both earthy and poetic. Her debut book-full of fish and blood and salt and oilskins-marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction.” William Dalrymple, author of THE ANARCHY“With the heart of a novelist and the clarity of an ethnographer, Lamorna Ash reveals the Cornish fishing community of Newlyn in all its tension and hardship and wild joy. Dark, Salt, Clear is a book of deep immersion and a stunning debut from a brilliant write...

-Titulo Original : The Cost Of Living A Working Autobiography-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including The Man Who Saw Everything (longlisted for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl, the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka, and two parts of her working autobiography, Things I Dont Want to Know and The Cost of Living, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.A New York Times Notable BookA New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson.The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy’s acclaimed novels. Review [Levy] is an indelible writer . . . [an] elliptical genius . . . The Cost of Living . . . is always a pleasure to consume. - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAn astute observer of both the mundane and the inexplicable, Levy sketches memorable details in just a few strokes . . . What makes the book stand out . . . is that Levy doesn’t allow herself to linger over these details . . . She’s like an expert rafter, and the river she travels is full of encounters and emotions. While another writer might give us a lengthy tour of this turbulent water, Levy doesn’t slow down. There’s joy in her maneuvering through the rapids, difficult though they may be. And there’s joy for us in watching her. - Yiyun Lee, The New York Times Book ReviewLevys style is fragmented, each anecdote as luminous, self-contained and hard as the pearls in the necklace she habitually wears around her throat. Theres humor here and vulnerability . . . The Cost of Living is a smart, slim meditation on womanhood informed by Levys wide reading. - Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s “Fresh Air”The Cost of Living is unclassifiable, original, full of unexpected pleasures at every turn. Though it can be read in a flash, I suspect readers will want to savor this book slowly, for its many moments of insight, humor, wisdom, and surprise. Delivered in gorgeous, disciplined prose, Deborah Levy has crafted a bracing, searing inquiry into one woman’s life that manages to tell the truth of all women’s lives. I loved it. - Dani ShapiroLevy would never tell another woman to live the way she does, or to live any one way at all. Shes too sophisticated a feminist for that. Still, she wants us . . . to know that shes happy, that shes thriving in this new, uncharted life. Her work is, too. The last sentence of the book starts, ‘The writing you are reading now is made from the cost of living.’ For writing this good, the cost of living is plainly the right price to pay. - NPR.orgAn eloquent manifesto for what Levy calls ‘a new way of living’ in the post-familial world. - The GuardianThis is a writer who has found her voice and her subject, and both speak directly to our times . . . Levy captivates us from her wonderful first sentence . . . If you want evidence that Levy’s struggles to find a life that makes sense for her have paid off, this book is Exhibit A. - ...

-Titulo Original : Moondust In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landingIt left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfes The Right Stuff Sunday TimesFascinating. A wonderful book David BowieThe Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to find and interview the nine remaining Moonwalkers in order to learn how their lives, and ours, were irrevocably changed by this surreal expedition. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Smiths powerful and gripping account of the most courageous adventure of the last century is re-released with a new chapter, detailing his fascinating interactions with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and Alan Bean in the years since publication. With thought-provoking meditations on the dramatic recent upswing in cosmic exploration, including astonishing encounters with the would-be astronaut-settlers of the Mars One project and the scientists leading the search for life in our solar system, this is an indispensable update to the definitive classic...

-Titulo Original : Economics The Users Guide The Users Guide-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Economics: The Users GuideBy Ha-Joon ChangBLOOMSBURY PRESSCopyright © 2014 Ha-Joon ChangAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-62040-812-4ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, xi, PROLOGUE Why Bother? WHY DO YOU NEED TO LEARN ECONOMICS?, 1, INTERLUDE I How to Read This Book, 9, PART ONE: GETTING USED TO IT, CHAPTER 1 Life, The Universe and Everything WHAT IS ECONOMICS?, 15, CHAPTER 2 From Pin to PIN CAPITALISM 1776 AND 2014, 29, CHAPTER 3 How Have We Got Here? A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAPITALISM, 45, CHAPTER 4 Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom HOW TO DO ECONOMICS, 109, CHAPTER 5 Dramatis Personae WHO ARE THE ECONOMIC ACTORS?, 171, INTERLUDE II Moving On ..., 203, PART TWO: USING IT, CHAPTER 6 How Many Do You Want It to Be? OUTPUT, INCOME AND HAPPINESS, 209, CHAPTER 7 How Does Your Garden Grow? THE WORLD OF PRODUCTION, 239, CHAPTER 8 Trouble at the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank FINANCE, 277, CHAPTER 9 Boriss Goat Should Drop Dead INEQUALITY AND POVERTY, 315, CHAPTER 10 Ive Known a Few People Whove Worked WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT, 345, CHAPTER 11 Leviathan or the Philsopher King? THE ROLE OF THE STATE, 375, CHAPTER 12 All Things in Prolific Abundance THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION, 405, EPILOGUE What Now? HOW CAN WE USE ECONOMICS TO MAKE OUR ECONOMIC BETTER?, 449, NOTES, 461, CHAPTER 1Life, The Universe and EverythingWHAT IS ECONOMICS?What is economics?A reader who is not familiar with the subject might reckon that it is the study of the economy. After all, chemistry is the study of chemicals, biology is the study of living things, and sociology is the study of society, so economics must be the study of the economy.But according to some of the most popular economics books of our time, economics is much more than that. According to them, economics is about the Ultimate Question - of Life, the Universe and Everything - as in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the cult comedy science fiction by Douglas Adams, which was made into a movie in 2005, with Martin The Hobbit Freeman in the leading role.According to Tim Harford, the Financial Times journalist and the author of the successful book The Undercover Economist, economics is about Life - he has named his second book The Logic of Life.No economist has yet claimed that economics can explain the Universe. The Universe remains, for now, the turf of physicists, whom most economists have for centuries been looking up to as their role models, in their desire to make their subject a true science. But some economists have come close - they have claimed that economics is about the world. For example, the subtitle of the second volume in Robert Franks popular Economic Naturalist series is How Economics Helps You Make Sense of Your World.Then there is the Everything bit. The subtitle of Logic of Life is Uncovering the New Economics of Everything. According to its subtitle, Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - probably the best-known economics book of our time - is an exploration of the Hidden Side of Everything. Robert Frank agrees, even though he is far more modest in his claim. In the subtitle of his first Economic Naturalist book, he only said Why Economics Explains Almost Everything (emphasis added).So, there we go. Economics is (almost) about Life, the Universe and Everything.When you think about it, this is some claim coming from a subject that has spectacularly failed in what most non-economists think is its main job - that is, explaining the economy.In the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the majority of the economics profession was preaching to the world that markets are rarely wrong and that modern economics has found ways to iron out those few wrinkles that markets may have; Robert Lucas, the 1995 winner of Nobel Prize in Economics, had declared in 2003 that the problem of depression prevention has been solved. So most economists were caught completely by surprise by the 2008 global financial crisis. Not only that, they hav...

-Titulo Original : Dark, Salt, Clear Life In A Cornish Fishing Town-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2021A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Marks the birth of a new star of non-fiction William DalrympleA beautiful account of immersion in an alien world Philip Marsden, GuardianThere is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child - the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when, feeling increasingly dislocated in London, she moves to Newlyn, a fishing town near Lands End. This Cornwall is messier and harder; it doesnt seem like a place that would welcome strangers.But before long, Lamorna finds herself on a week-long trawler trip with a crew of local fishermen, afforded a rare glimpse into their world, their warmth and their humour. Out on the water, miles from the coast, she learns how fishing requires you to confront who you are and what it is that tethers you to the land. Dark, Salt, Clear is a bracing journey of discovery and a captivating portrait of a community sustained and defined by the sea for centuries...

-Titulo Original : Around The World In 80 Trains A 45,000-mile Adventure-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But it wasnt long before she was carefully plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles - almost twice the circumference of the earth - coasting along the worlds most remarkable railways; from the cloud-skimming heights of Tibets Qinghai railway to silk-sheeted splendour on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. Packing up her rucksack - and her fiance, Jem - Monisha embarks on an unforgettable adventure that will take her from Londons St Pancras station to the vast expanses of Russia and Mongolia, North Korea, Canada, Kazakhstan, and beyond. The ensuing journey is one of constant movement and mayhem, as the pair strike up friendships and swap stories with the hilarious, irksome and ultimately endearing travellers they meet on board, all while taking in some of the earths most breathtaking views. From the author of Around India in 80 Trains comes another witty and irreverent look at the world and a celebration of the glory of train travel. Rajesh offers a wonderfully vivid account of life, history and culture in a book that will make you laugh out loud - and reflect on what it means to be a global citizen - as you whirl around the world in its pages...

-Titulo Original : The Book Of Trespass Crossing The Lines That Divide Us-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, I AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2021Brilliant, passionate and political . . . The Book of Trespass will make you see landscapes differently Robert MacfarlaneA remarkable and truly radical work, loaded with resonant truths George MonbiotThe vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day.The Book of Trespass takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. By trespassing the land of the media magnates, Lords, politicians and private corporations that own England, Nick Hayes argues that the root of social inequality is the uneven distribution of land.Weaving together the stories of poachers, vagabonds, gypsies, witches, hippies, ravers, ramblers, migrants and protestors, and charting acts of civil disobedience that challenge orthodox power at its heart, The Book of Trespass will transform the way you see the land...

-Titulo Original : Unaccountable What Hospitals Wont Tell You And How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order thats seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.--Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawandes bestseller The Checklist Manifesto. A Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor of public health, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But hes also been a witness to a a system that frustrates doctors and patients alike. Dr. Makary describes the problem and presents disruptive innovations from success stories around the U.S. The ideas are powerful, but even more important, they are home-grown by the doctors on the front-lines of American healthcare. Unaccountable is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken healthcare system. Review The problems he describes are real and disturbing . . . Dr. Makary argues that true reform will only come with full disclosure. - Laura Landro, The Wall Street JournalMakarys diagnosis is dangerous, damaging secrecy; his therapy is radical transparency . . . [His] argument is powerful . . . [He] makes a strong case that the system we have is a disaster for patients. - Trine Tsouderos, Chicago Tribune“Unaccountable is a gripping story about whats wrong with the American healthcare system and what we might do to make it better.” Peter Pronovost MD, PhD, Executive Vice-President, John Hopkins Hospital“A startling revelation of the dysfunction deeply embedded in the very culture of American medical practice, problems that healthcare reform scarcely beings to address.” Peter Boyer, Senior Correspondent for NewsweekThis book should be read by all people, not just doctors and health administrators, so they can make wise decisions when it comes to choosing where, when and who will provide healthcare for themselves and their loved ones. You will be a wiser health consumer for reading this book. Michael E Johns, M.D., Chancellor, Emory University About the Author Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H. is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Professor of Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Makary is a leading voice for physicians writing for the Wall Street Journal and USA Today and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He tweets @MartyMakary and lives in the Washington DC area...

-Titulo Original : A Long Petal Of The Sea The Sunday Times Bestseller-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA powerful love story spanning generations. Full of ambition and humanity Sunday TimesOne of the strongest and most affecting works in Allendes long career New York Times Book ReviewVictor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile and belonging Independent OnlineA defiantly warm and funny novel, by somebody who has earned the right to argue that love and optimism can survive whatever history might throw at us Daily TelegraphAllendes style is impressively Olympian and the payoff is remarkable Guardia...

-Titulo Original : 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The EconomistA moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from internationally renowned writer and speaker Elif Shafak.In the pulsating moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness. Her heart has stopped beating but her brain is still active for 10 minutes 38 seconds. While the Turkish sun rises and her friends sleep soundly nearby, she remembers her life and the lives of others, outcasts like her. Tequila Leila’s memories bring us back to her childhood in the provinces, a highly oppressive milieu with religion and traditions, shaped by a polygamous family with two mothers and an increasingly authoritarian father. Escaping to Istanbul, Leila makes her way into the sordid industry of sex trafficking, finding a home in the city’s historic Street of Brothels. This is a dark, violent world, but Leila is tough and open to beauty, light, and the essential bonds of friendship. In Tequila Leila’s death, the secrets and wonders of modern Istanbul come to life, painted vividly by the captivating tales of how Leila came to know and be loved by her friends. As her epic journey to the afterlife comes to an end, it is her chosen family who brings her story to a buoyant and breathtaking conclusion. Review Shafak writes with vision, bravery and compassion . . . a stunning portrait of a city, a society, a small community and a single soul. - The New York Times Book ReviewA deeply humane story about the cruel effects of Turkey’s intolerant sexual attitudes . . . Shafak is a master of captivating moments that provide a sprawling and intimate vision of Istanbul . . . Ultimately, “10 Minutes” isn’t really about death, but the persistence of love . . . Leila’s ragtag friends, scorned and mocked by polite society, can’t possibly triumph over the forces of religious and political corruption, but they and Shafak manage to create something truly subversive: a community of devotion beyond the reach of state or mosque. - The Washington PostA beautifully written tour de force of exemplary storytelling . . . Its powerful insights into Turkey’s past and present challenges and the world today make it highly recommended. - Library Journal, starred reviewExtraordinary . . . a piercing, unflinching look at the trauma women’s minds and bodies are subjected to in a social system defined by patriarchal codes. - The GuardianEver-courageous Turkish writer Shafak creates another resilient woman protagonist at odds with Turkey’s repressive society . . . [A] seductively imaginative, rambunctiously humorous, complexly tragic, and lyrically redemptive tale . . . Shafaks motley and compassionate cast embodies both the brutal consequences of tyranny and the power of individuals to undermine it in a full-tilt novel set in a fabled city, a swirling microcosm of human complexity and paradox. - starred review, BooklistGripping . . . Through flashbacks to [the protagonists] life in modern-day Turkey, minute by minute, you’ll feel her wonder, her joy, her pain. You’ll feel empathy for a girl whose life is upended from the day she is born. It’s companionship with other Istanbul transplants that saves Leila from complete despair. And as you get to know Leila’s other friends on the margins of society, you find yourself rooting for them in the unlikeliest of endeavors. - NPRs Book ConciergeShafak portrays Istanbul in all its glorious chaos against the backdrop of civil unrest that culminated in the Taksim Square Massacre of 1977. Despite being harassed by Turkish authorities for her depiction of sexual violence, the author uses the megaphone of her 12th novel to further expose female exploitation and sexual abuse. In this way she succeeds in giving a voice to the voiceless. - Shelf AwarenessThis is a vividly realized...

-Titulo Original : Sex Ed A Guide For Adults-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Written by sex educator and body-positivity advocate Ruby Rare, Sex Ed is the practical and fun guide to sex that youve always wanted - but never known how to ask for.This is the information you should have been taught at school: a no-holds-barred roadmap that covers everything from how the brain is the most important sex organ and how to communicate what you want to yourself and a partner, all the way down to the messy stuff - solo sex, orgasms, touching, kissing, blow jobs, cunnilingus, play, lube, toys, kegels.After all, sex education shouldnt start and end with putting a condom on a banana...

-Titulo Original : Cleopatra And Frankenstein-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Coco Mellors grew up in London and New York. She has an MFA from New York University, where she was a recipient of the Goldwater Fellowship. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband. For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couples impulsive marriage.Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Franks life is full of all the excesses Cleos lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never couldve predicted.Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether its Cleos best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleos marriage, or Franks financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last.As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent. Review “Cleo is a 24-year-old painter with an expiring student visa; Frank is 20 years older and financially stable (and then some). Their “impulsive marriage” sets off all sorts of reactions in their circle of friends and family-not to mention their individual reactions as they settle in as husband and wife. Its giving me early-season Girls vibes, which Im very much here for.” LitHubs Most Anticipated Books of 2022“Tantalizing … cinematic … [Mellors] has written some extraordinary sentences and shows a great talent for dialogue.” Los Angeles Times“An irresistible, un-put-downable, page-turner of a novel. A love letter to New York, a love letter to love, Cleopatra and Frankenstein is a complex, funny, deeply-felt, beautifully written debut.” Nathan Englander, author of WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK and KADDISH.COM“Every sentence of Coco Mellors debut novel Cleopatra and Frankensteinshimmers with wit and wisdom. Masterfully told through multiple voices, Cleopatra and Frankenstein offers an intimate glimpse of a marriage marred by alcoholism and mental illness. Mellors real genius lies in her ability to render the pervasive damage wrought by those suffering from addiction, trauma, and mental illness with enough compassion that readers will find themselves rooting for each of the characters, firmly invested in their ability to wrest recovery and hope from the wreckage. Mellors brilliantly crafted story and unforgettable characters offer unvarnished insight into the very heart of what it means to be human. I will be pressing this book into all my friends hands.” Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of GROUP“Mellors remarkably assured and sensitive debut … strongly evoke[s] Hanya Yanagiharas A Little Life, but Mellors also cultivates a sprightlier style that keeps the novels familiar tropes from feeling cliched or reducing her characters to types … At its core, its a novel about how love and lovers are easily misinterpreted and how romantic troubles affect friends and family. A canny and engrossing rewiring of the big-city romance.” Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review“Mellors dissects the tumultuous relationship between two magnetic and damaged people … an enticing aura glows at this works heart.” Publishers Weekly“Ripples from one couples...

-Titulo Original : We Are Bellingcat The Online Sleuths Solving Global Crimes-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat, an international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open-source and social media investigation to probe some of the worlds most pressing stories. Higgins also sits on the technical advisory board of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In 2018 he was a visiting research associate at Kings College London and at the University of California, Berkeley.@EliotHiggins INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWe Are Bellingcat is Higginss gripping account of how he reinvented reporting for the internet age . . . A manifesto for optimism in a dark age.-Luke Harding, ObserverThe page-turning inside story of the global team wielding the internet to fight for facts and combat autocracy-revealing the extraordinary ability of ordinary people to hold the powerful to account.In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one of the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasnt pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional news outlet. Instead, the scoop came from Bellingcat, the open-source investigative team that is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future.We Are Bellingcat tells the inspiring story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists-working together from their computer screens around the globe-to crack major cases, at a time when fact-based journalism is under assault from authoritarian forces. Founder Eliot Higgins introduces readers to the tools Bellingcat investigators use, tools available to anyone, from software that helps you pinpoint the location of an image, to an app that can nail down the time that photo was taken. This book digs deep into some of Bellingcats most important investigations-the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, Assads use of chemical weapons in Syria, the identities of alt-right protestors in Charlottesville-with the drama and gripping detail of a spy novel. Review “John le Carre demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself.” Financial Times“Riveting . . . What will fire people through these pages, gripped, is the focused, and extraordinary, investigations that Bellingcat runs . . . Each runs as if the concluding chapter of a Holmesian whodunit.” Telegraph“A fascinating book . . . The lesson of this deeply impressive book is that, despite the noise, the propaganda and the lies, the truth is everywhere. You just have to know how to look for it.” Spectator“Higgins traces his improbable journey from college dropout and video-game player to open-source intelligence pioneer…He recounts this unlikely tale with fascinating detail and fervor, making We Are Bellingcat a mix of memoir, manifesto, and police procedural: CSI for the international relations set.” Foreign Affair...

-Titulo Original : Natural Flava Quick & Easy Plant-based Caribbean Recipes-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Craig and Shaun McAnuff, raised in London and of Jamaican descent, are bringing Caribbean food to the masses. In April 2016, they launched the Original Flava brand, sharing videos of them cooking simple Caribbean recipes. Their videos went viral and they have since been featured on the BBC, Buzzfeed, BET Network, London Live and Reprezent Radio and have published two books, including Caribbean Cookbook in 2017 and Original Flava in 2019. They live in London. A vibrantly designed Caribbean vegan cookbook from the internationally celebrated duo behind Original Flava. Caribbean food is often known for its tasty meat and fish dishes. However, theres more to Caribbean food than jerk chicken. It also features a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables like plantain, yams, jackfruit, guava, and plenty more, making it perfect for vegan recipes. Jamaica has a long and authentic vegan tradition: the Ital diet of Jamaican Rastafarians. Ital means clean, natural, and unprocessed as much as possible. Rastafari is an expression of unity with all things, and the Ital diet reflects that through a sense of peace and togetherness with the natural world. Essentially Jamaican cooking without salt, meat, or additives, Ital is just as tasty but with the power to promote overall health and wellness.Craig and Shaun charmed cooks everywhere with their essential introduction to home-cooked Caribbean food in Original Flava. Now, in Natural Flava, theyre spreading the love, offering Ital inspiration and punchy Caribbean flavors to the feel-good, plant-based diet taking the world by storm. Review “The dishes inspired by [Craig and Shaun McAnuffs] heritage prove decidedly delicious, underscoring the brothers knack for breezy instructions and clever substitutions …Those looking to cut down on meat and up their spice intake should pick this up.” Publishers Weekly[NATURAL FLAVA] will prove to be a unique and enduringly popular addition to personal, professional, and community library Vegetarian Cookbook collections. - Midwest Book ReviewThis cookbook celebrates Caribbean food, specifically the Ital diet of Jamaican Rastafarians, which emphasizes peace and unity with the natural world through vegan food. Recipes feature plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables along with Caribbean-inspired flavors like coconut and guava. - PETA.org, Top Vegan Cookbooks of 2022Conveying the vibrant colors of tropical fruits, the sweet taste of coconut, and the spice of jerk seasoning, theyll no doubt have readers drooling … To-die-for recipes include ackee and cabbage with fried dumplings and plantains, immune-boosting ital smoothies to give your skin a healthy glow, and callaloo fritters … Exciting dishes made accessible with quick, simple instructions make this an easy addition to culinary collections. - Booklis...

-Titulo Original : If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair The Sunday Times Bestseller-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIve been waiting for this book all my life and everyone needs to read it Claudia WinklemanAnya Hindmarch is a mother of five, stepmother, entrepreneur and globally renowned businesswoman. In If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair, she shares what she has learned during her busy and eclectic life, what she still worries about, and what advice she has received along the way.From practical tips and quick fixes, to profound observations about confidence and creativity, this inspiring handbook will show you how to live a little better - and why sometimes, the answer can be as simple as washing your hair.Comforting, practical and beautifully personal. This book feels like your best friend telling you its all going to be ok Fearne CottonWarm, friendly, and packed to the rafters with excellent advice - I loved it India KnightA charming mix of memoir and manifesto GraziaA hands-on, practical guide to managing the stresses of daily life Evening Standard, Highlights for 2021Warm and refreshingly honest Julia SamuelI loved this book - its really unusual, surprising and inspiring Viv GroskopA treasure trove of inspiring, down-to-earth and practical advice shared with humour and honesty Alexandra Shulma...

-Titulo Original : Patch Work Winner Of The 2021 Pen Ackerley Prize-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Claire Wilcox has been Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A since 2004, where she has curated exhibitions including Radical Fashion, The Art and Craft of Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, and, as co-curator, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, and instigated Fashion in Motion (live catwalk events in the museum) in 1999. She is Professor in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion and is on the editorial board of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. She lives in South London. WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE“As skillful and oblique in its structure as the precious gowns she describes.” -Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, “Best Books of the Year”An expert and intimate exploration of a life in clothes: their memories and stories, enchantments and spells.A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgotten in a hem. Fragile silks and fugitive dyes, fans and crinolines, and the faint mark on leather from a buckle now lost.Claire Wilcox has worked as a curator in Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum for most of her working life. Down cool, dark corridors and in quiet store rooms, she and her colleagues care for, catalogue and conserve clothes centuries old, the inscrutable remnants of lives long lost to history; the commonplace or remarkable things that survive the bodies they once encircled or adorned.In Patch Work, Wilcox deftly stitches together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mothers black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear: their stories, their secrets, their power to transform and disguise and acts as portals to our pasts; the ways in which they measure out our lives, our gains and losses, and the ways we use them to write our stories. Review “In this remarkable self-portrait, fashion curator Claire Wilcox has set out mementoes of her life like objects in an exhibition. Short chapters, some only half a page, are displayed like treasures in a cabinet of curiosities . . . The result is magical . . . Her spellbinding memoir is like a cherished book of poetry, one to be dipped into over and again.” Wall Street Journal“This memoir unfolds as a series of vignettes, each one as precisely constructed as an exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum . . . Wilcox evokes the sensual and spiritual meaning in the fabrics we weave, wear, and leave behind.” The New Yorker“A series of exquisite meditations.” Harpers Bazaar“Filled with dreamlike memories, this autobiography is both surprising and delightful . . . A strange and mesmerising piece of work, one that tears apart the usual fabric of an autobiography.” The Sunday Times“A finely crafted memoir of luminous vignettes.” Kirkus (starred review)“A fascinating memoir . . . a textual mood board that flits dreamily from intimate childhood memories and poignant remembrances of her father . . . This intricate work enchants.” Publishers Weekly“A longtime curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Wilcox (The Golden Age of Couture) offers tantalizing, richly sensuous glimpses into her life inside and outside the museum.” Booklist“Fascinating, strange, and enthralling.” Maggie OFarrell, author of HAMNET“Patch Work is a unique memoir told in rich, tantalizing fragments that made me look at what we all wear with new interest and respect.” Tracy Chevalier, author of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING and A SINGLE THREAD“I am overwhelmed by this book. It is an absolute masterpiece. A book of such beauty and profundity, of such poetry in its emotion and observation.” Laura Cumming, author of FIVE DAYS GONE“An exquisite book that wor...

-Titulo Original : Admiring Silence By The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2021-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury. **By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**A corrosively funny and relentless (The New York Times) tale of cultural identity and displacement, Admiring Silence is the story of a mans dual lives as a refugee from his native Zanzibar in England.The unnamed narrator of this dazzling novel escapes from Zanzibar to England knowing that he will probably never return. In his new country, things are not quite as he imagined - the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, and he quickly forgets how it feels to belong. But when he meets a beautiful, rebellious woman named Emma, and when Emma, turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child, the narrator chooses to hide his past from his new family and his present circumstance from his family back in Zanzibar. Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life. Review “Corrosively funny and relentless... Gurnah skillfully depicts the agony of a man caught between two cultures, each of which would disown him for his links to the other.” The New York Times“Through a twisting, many-layered narrative, Admiring Silence explores themes of race and betrayal with bitterly satirical insight” Sunday Times“I dont think Ive ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home, the impossible longing to belong.” Independent on Sunda...

-Titulo Original : The Kingdoms-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION 2021 BEST NOVELFor fans of Matt Haig, Stuart Turton and Bridget Collins comes a sweeping historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetOriginal, joyous and horrifying, The Kingdoms is an awe-inspiring feat of imagination and passion which had me in tears by the end - Catriona WardCome home, if you rememberThe postcard has been held at the sorting office for ninety-one years, waiting to be delivered to Joe Tournier. On the front is a lighthouse - Eilean Mor, in the Outer Hebrides.Joe has never left England, never even left London. He is a British slave, one of thousands throughout the French Empire. He has a job, a wife, a baby daughter.But he also has flashes of a life he cannot remember and of a world that never existed - a world where English is spoken in England, and not French.And now he has a postcard of a lighthouse built just six months ago, that was first written nearly one hundred years ago, by a stranger who seems to know him very well.Joes journey to unravel the truth will take him from French-occupied London to a remote Scottish island, and back through time itself as he battles for his life - and for a very different future...

-Titulo Original : Memory Of Departure By The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literature 2021-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021. He is the author of ten novels: Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award), Admiring Silence, By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), Desertion (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize) The Last Gift, Gravel Heart, and Afterlives, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021 and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge in 2016. He lives in Canterbury. **By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnahs first novel is a compelling (New York Times) and unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life.Hassan Omar is a gifted young man, with a potentially bright future but a past marred by poverty. In the wake of a national uprising, and with a new government in place, though, he is denied a scholarship to a university abroad and deprived of the opportunity to study further. Instead, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mothers rightful share of the family inheritance.In Nairobi, Hassan experiences the collision of past secrets and future hopes, and the compounding of fear and frustration, beauty and brutality. In his debut novel, Nobel Prize winning author Abdurlazak Gurnah creates a fierce tale of undeniable power. Review “A compelling study of one mans struggle to find a purpose for his life and a haunting portrait of a traditional society collapsing under the weight of poverty and rapid change.” The New York Times“[Gurnahs] sentences are deceptively soft, but the cumulative force for me felt like a sledgehammer. He has written work that is absolutely unflinching and yet at the same time completely compassionate and full of heart for people of East Africa. He is writing stories that are often quiet stories of people who arent heard, but theres an insistence there that we listen.” Maaza Mengiste, author of THE SHADOW KING, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize“[A] captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss. His intricate novels of arrival and departure … reveal, with flashes of acerbic humour, the lingering ties that bind continents, and how competing versions of history collide.” Guardian“Gurnah writes with wonderful insight about family relationships and he folds in the layers of history with elegance and warmth.” The Time...

-Titulo Original : In Control Dangerous Relationships And How They End In Murder-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Groundbreaking OBSERVERBlows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water CAITLIN MORANOffers a strategy for intervention that would save lives INDEPENDENTEvery four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner - and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic.For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder.Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse - while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive...

-Titulo Original : The Good Girls An Ordinary Killing-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Scientific Healing Affirmations by Paramahansa Yogananda. Based on the original 1925 edition. This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden laws for harnessing the power of concentrated thought - not only for physical healing, but to overcome obstacles and create all-around success in our lives. Long before the use of affirmations was embraced in mainstream settings as diverse as hospitals, recovery programs, sports arenas, and corporate suites, Paramahansa Yogananda, celebrated author of Autobiography of a Yogi, understood and taught the deep spiritual principles that make this ancient scientific tool so powerfully effective. Includes comprehensive instructions and a wide variety of affirmations for healing the body, developing confidence, awakening wisdom, curing bad habits, and much more...

-Titulo Original : A Still Life A Memoir-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Laugh out loud with Captain Underpants, from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Dog Man! Captain Underpants returns for a twelfth adventure in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day - then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, creates a method of mind-control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands! About the series:Captain Underpants is now a feature-length animated film from DreamWorks and a series on NETFLIXThe original Captain Underpants books are fully illustrated with black and white comic book drawingsThe books are now also available in full-colour graphic novelsPerfect for all children, but especially those who are struggling to engage with readingFull of fun and laughs (and toilet humour)...