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Autor do best-seller Dez lições para o mundo pós-pandemia explora as revoluções ― passadas e atuais ― que definem a era polarizada e instável em que vivemos. Fúria populista, fratura ideológica, impactos econômicos e tecnológicos, guerras e um sistema internacional repleto de riscos catastróficos ― as primeiras décadas do século XXI podem ser consideradas o período mais revolucionário da história moderna. Mas não é o primeiro. Os seres humanos já passaram por alguns realinhamentos ― e prosperaram.

¡Un bestseller del New York Times! 2019 ha sido el último gran año para la economía mundial. Durante generaciones, todo se ha ido haciendo más rápido, mejor y más barato. Finalmente, llegamos al punto en que casi cualquier cosa que pudiera desear podría ser enviada a su casa a los pocos días -incluso horas- de haber decidido que la quería.

Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in the nation's capital with her second husband, but her enviable dinner parties and soirées aren’t the only things she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing into the Soviet Union. Charlie is soon shocked to cross paths with Charlotte, an old flame of his, who, thanks to her gossipy parties, has a packed pocketbook full of secrets to share.

C'est le tableau le plus célèbre du monde... mais sans doute le plus mystérieux également ! Mona Lisa, La Joconde est un symbole, un modèle indépassable, une icône, un joyau, une énigme. François Diwo fait parler La Joconde pour qu'elle nous raconte sa vie, longue de 500 ans et ponctuée d'aventures incroyables ! Mona Lisa prend la plume à la première personne pour nous parler d'elle, de ses origines, de son installation à Paris, mais aussi de son tour du monde (Tokyo, New York...

Come sarà il mondo da qui a trent'anni? Come cambierà la nostra vita grazie o a causa della tecnologia sempre più pervasiva? E come dobbiamo prepararci noi e i nostri figli per saper intercettare al meglio i cambiamenti già in atto ma che da noi, in Italia, arrivano sempre in ritardo? Dopo il caustico pamphlet "Muovete il culo!", Alberto Forchielli torna a scuotere le coscienze degli italiani per prepararli al mondo di domani. E lo fa con un viaggio pirotecnico nei luoghi in cui il futuro non si aspetta ma si costruisce.

“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street Journal From The New York Times–bestselling author of The Ghost Map and Extra Life, the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry...

Tony Blair's decision to back George W. Bush in his attack on Iraq will go down as a defining moment for Blair - and for Britain. As Ambassador to the UN, Sir Jeremy Greenstock was centre stage in the dramatic months leading up to the Iraq War. After the war he was Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK's highest authority on the ground, and he worked side by side with Paul Bremer, the US administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Baghdad and saw firsthand the impact of the divisive turf wars back in Washington.

Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn't come to the role via the traditional route. Oldfield was the voice of British Intelligence in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and was largely responsible for keeping the UK out of the Vietnam War. Working his way to the top, he took on the job of rebuilding confidence in the British Secret Service in the wake of the Cambridge spies scandal.