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My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions is the life story of India's 11th President, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, who started off as an insignificant little boy Rameswaram, but ended up becoming the president of the country, besides being a brilliant scientist as well. The book portrays the struggle that Dr. Kalam had to endure, as he climbed the ladder of success in life.

An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan, from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China when he was head of state.

P. V. Narasimha Rao (or PV, as he was popularly known) has been widely praised for enabling the economic reforms that transformed the country in 1991. From the vantage point of his long personal and professional association with the former prime minister, best-selling author Sanjaya Baru shows how PV's impact on the nation's fortunes went way beyond the economy.

Plain Speaking is a book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman’s feisty takes on everything from his personal life, military service, and political career to the challenges he faced in taking the office during the final days of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.

In tracing the life of Golda Meir, acclaimed author Deborah E. Lipstadt explores the history of the Yishuv and Jewish state from the 1920s through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, all while highlighting the contradictions and complexities of a person who was only the third woman to serve as a head of state in the 20th century.

A ningún dictador le bastan el miedo y la violencia para gobernar: estas estrategias pueden resultar indispensables para alcanzar el poder e incluso para mantenerlo durante un tiempo, pero no suelen ser efectivas a largo plazo. La paradoja del dictador moderno es que debe crear la ilusión del respaldo popular, pues sólo un tirano cuyo gobierno es capaz de inspirar idolatría en el pueblo conseguirá perpetuarse.

Kwabena Oppong, who is the king and supreme ruler of the African Ashanti tribespeople living in the United States of America, has a throne in his living room. The American Ashanti king is elected every two years from the ranks of an Ashanti social and cultural organization called the Asanteman Association of the United States of America, Inc. The first stateside king, Kwadwo Tuffuor, was a plumber. The second, Kusi Appouh, repaired air-conditioners and refrigerators. Kwabena Oppong is the third king; he drives a cab.

Kennedy family biographer Christopher Andersen makes The Day John Died available for the first time as an ebook. Andersen draws on important sources - many talking here for the first time - to recreate in vivid and startling detail the events leading up to that fateful night off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. An inspiring, sympathetic, and compelling look at one of the most remarkable young men of our time, The Day John Died is more than just the definitive biography of JFK Jr. It is a bittersweet saga of triumph, love, loss, fate - and promise unfulfilled.

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, born on 15 October 1931, is one of the India's most distinguished scientists. He is held credited for the development of India's first satellite launch vehicle, the SLV-3. As Chairman of The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), he prepared the document on Technology Vision 2020 to make India a developed country.

Václav Havel was one of the most prominent figures of the 20th century: iconoclast and intellectual, renowned playwright turned political dissident, president of a united then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist. Written by Michael Zantovsky Havel's former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend, Havel: A Life presents a revelatory portrait of this giant among men and the turbulent times through which he prevailed.

No American president has been more enthusiastic in appreciating the wilderness and in conserving our nation’s natural treasures than Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). And no other president wrote more about nature and his explorations of it than T. R., in scattered books, such as African Wilderness, and in his countless letters, including those collected in The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt).

Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfathers inauguration. The countrys First Grandchildren, a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as Sistie and Buzzie.In this rich memoir, Roosevelt brings us into the goldfish bowl, as his family called itthat glare of public scrutiny to which all presidential households must submit.

New York Times best-selling author and legendary political insider Roger Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment that exposes the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In his usual "go for the jugular" style, Stone collaborates with Saint John Hunt - author, musician, and son of legendary CIA operative E. Howard Hunt - to make this a "no-holds-barred" history of the Bush family.

Era il 1974 quando Gianni Minà incontrò per la prima volta faccia a faccia Fidel Castro, in occasione di un match di boxe all'Avana. Nel tunnel che conduceva agli spogliatoi dei pugili gli rivolse alcune domande, alle quali il líder máximo replicò: «Dovremmo vederci in ufficio, per rispondere a tutto. Siamo in piedi, qui».

Joe Biden è stato testimone e protagonista di una fase fondamentale della storia americana. In "Promesse da mantenere" rivela ciò che queste esperienze gli hanno insegnato su se stesso, i suoi colleghi e le istituzioni degli Stati Uniti d'America.

Tarradellas es un recorrido por la trayectoria vital y política de quien fue uno de los presidentes más célebres de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Se trata de la biografía más exhaustiva sobre el político que se ha escrito hasta ahora y que está llamada a convertirse en la obra de referencia sobre su figura en los próximos años. Este minucioso trabajo analiza la evolución profesional y política de Josep Tarradellas (1899-1988) y, a su vez, se convierte en un relato de la historia del catalanismo y de la relación Cataluña-España a lo largo del siglo xx.

Desde su nacimiento, en 1984, Kim Jong Un ha estado envuelto en mitos y propaganda, desde simples tonterías —supuestamente podía conducir un coche a la edad de tres años— hasta las sangrientas historias de los miembros de su familia que perecieron bajo su mando. Anna Fifield reconstruye el pasado y el presente del tirano, con acceso exclusivo a fuentes cercanas a él y su conocimiento único del país asiático para explicar la misión dinástica de su familia en Corea del Norte.

En Hitler. La encarnación del mal, se recorre la vida de uno de los personajes más controversiales de la historia universal. Quizá muy pocos despierten tanta curiosidad y morbo, mezclados con fuertes dosis de indignación y animosidad, como el austriaco renegado Adolfo Hitler. Su personalidad vengativa, combinada con su habilidad oratoria y su sed de poder, dejaron un legado macabro y sus crímenes contra la humanidad son símbolo del odio y del racismo.

La periodista de Público Ana Pardo de Vera; la directora del programa 360 grados de ETB, Eider Hurtado; y el corresponsal de TV3 en Madrid, Albert Calatrava, se han unido para realizar un audiolibro sobre la figura del rey emérito y de su sucesor, Felipe VI, como nunca antes se ha realizado.

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