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Redan när han kommer till firmafesten har Pekka tagit sig några glas. Under kvällen dansar han med flera unga kvinnor, och gör flera besök i baren. En ung dam som han haft ögonen på verkar föredra en annan man. När orkestern börjar packa ihop och de flesta glada festdeltagare börjar dra sig hemåt så stannar Pekka kvar, och kastar allt fler ilskna blickar på sin rival. Nästa morgon möts en grupp friluftsmänniskor för att gå på vandring. Vid mötesplatsen gör de en makaber upptäckt. I ett dike ser de vad de först tror är ett fyllo som sover ruset av sig.

Den 10 mars 1969 blir en 74-årig kvinna brutalt misshandlad och därefter våldtagen och strypt. Gärningsmannen grips av polisen nästan omedelbart efter dådet. Domstolen finner honom skyldig och han överförs till sjukhus för sluten psykiatrisk vård. Exakt på dagen ett år efter denna händelse mördas en äldre kvinna i Västerås på ett sätt som i nästan varje detalj är detsamma. Hade polisen hand om samma gärningsman, eller försökte någon vilseledda dom? I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall.

I slutet av 1984 inträffade en uppskakande tragedi i Björneborg. En far dödade sina två söner och deras två hundar. Som sista åtgärd försökte han bränna upp de döda kropparna genom att sätta eld på sin bil. Fadern får nu begrunda sina gärniingar i fängelset och modern har fått djupa och smärtsamma sår. Frågan är om de någonsin kan läkas. Familjens anhöriga sörjer och står undrande: Hur var det möjligt att det kunde inträffa? I Nordisk kriminalkrönika berättar poliser själva om sina mest uppmärksammade, omskakande, och svåra fall. Nordisk Kriminalkrönika är ett historiskt verk.

- Man kan ringa polisen och de kan köra från fastlandet så fort de kan. Men hur lång tid tar det? 30 minuter? 45? Det är en lång tid att vänta när man hör hur en mördare bryter sig in i huset. Den charmige snickaren delar det lilla samhället i två läger. Halva byn tror att Pierre blivit oskyldigt anklagad för morden på kvinnan och hennes särbo för sex år sen; ett av offren var ju hans egen mamma. Den andra halvan menar att det är just därför de misstänker honom; Pierre stod att ärva, och det hade gått rykten om att han stod i skuld till den ryska maffian.

Brought to you by Penguin. After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots stretching back...

Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come about? In Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explains the United States’ - and the world’s - great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and helped create their eras

For more than a century, radio has been a part of people’s lives. No one alive today remembers a time when it hadn't always been there as a familiar, reliable source of information and entertainment...Weird Radio and Television: A Collection of Spy Transmissions, Unidentified Stations, Paranormal Activities, and Other Mysteries Across the Media includes strange stories that will make these famous forms of media seem a bit less familiar and far more interesting.

Tensions between the world's superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. But between these hubs of high-level politics, an entirely new reality is emerging. Yet the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, and these interactions make California a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the 21st century. In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections.

The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human rights progress. Challenging the widely shared pessimism among regional experts, Micheline Ishay charts bold and realistic pathways for human rights in a region beset by political repression, economic distress, sectarian conflict, a refugee crisis, and violence against women.

Giovanni Paolo II è il solo papa del Novecento che può vantare una vittoria politica, quella nel confronto con il sistema comunista. Eppure il suo è un pontificato religioso. Questa è la cifra con la quale si presenta Karol Wojtyła quando, nel 1978, con grande sorpresa di tutti, viene eletto papa. Eredita una Chiesa che, dopo il Concilio Vaticano II e il '68, sembra in declino. Ma il suo messaggio coglie nel segno: "Non abbiate paura! Aprite le porte a Cristo!".

Solo tre settimane dopo la sua morte gli eredi ordinano la liberazione di oltre un milione di prigionieri, la fine delle torture e il rispetto dei diritti degli arrestati. Solo tre anni dopo, nel 1956, denunciano al mondo che "il Massimo Genio e il Massimo Condottiero di tutti i tempi e di tutti i popoli" è stato un tiranno spietato. Passano due anni dal crollo del muro di Berlino e la sua grandiosa costruzione economica si affloscia, inerte, su sé stessa.

On June 17, 2015, 12 members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. In Grace Will Lead Us Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes provides a definitive account of the tragedy’s aftermath.

On the island of Lampedusa, the southernmost part of Italy, between Africa and Europe, Davide Enia looks in the faces of those who arrive and those who wait, and tells the story of an individual and collective shipwreck. On one side, a multitude in motion, crossing entire nations and then the Mediterranean Sea under conditions beyond any imagination. On the other, a handful of men and women on the border of an era and a continent, trying to welcome the newcomers.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a US or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and US housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and US financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the US market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

As a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America led a global counterterrorism campaign of limitless scope. Its military dimension involved major wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covert operations in Yemen and elsewhere, large-scale military assistance programs for cooperative regimes, and major increases in military spending. Included are speeches from presidents, world leaders, military personnel, and others supporting and opposing the efforts.