Victoria Eugenia Gordo del Rey Knihy

V roku 1945 bola Európa na kolenách. Veľkú časť kontinentu ťažko postihli vojnové operácie, masové vraždenie, bombardovanie a celkový chaos. Takmer celá východná Európa sa dostala pod sovietsku nadvládu, a jednu tyraniu vystriedala druhá. Dnes už Sovietsky zväz neexistuje a čoraz viac štátov hraničiacich s Ruskou federáciou si vyberá demokratickú cestu a členstvo v Európskej únii. Rusko sa zo všetkých síl snaží tento vývoj zvrátiť, čoho dôkazom je aj jeho vojenská agresia na Ukrajine. Kniha však rozpráva o vývoji na celom kontinente, o protichodných skúsenostiach obyvateľov východnej a západnej Európy. Dozvieme sa v nej i o občianskej vojne v Grécku, škandinávskej sociálnej demokracii, problémoch dvojjazyčného Belgicka či krvavých akciách severoírskej IRA alebo baskických separatistov. Druhé slovenské vydanie majstrovského diela o dejinách Európy v rokoch 1945 - 2005 zachytáva zložitý a strhujúci príbeh o tom, ako sme sa dostali až sem.

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task. Geoffrey Parker, one of the world's leading historians of early modern Europe, has examined the surviving written sources in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, as well as visual and material evidence. He explores the crucial decisions that created and preserved this vast empire, analyzes Charles's achievements within the context of both personal and structural factors, and scrutinizes the intimate details of the ruler's life for clues to his character and inclinations. The result is a unique biography that interrogates every dimension of Charles's reign and views the world through the emperor's own eyes.

It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever. Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This all changes with a phone call from Marguerite's goddaughter, Renata Knox. Marguerite has not seen Renata since the death of Renata's mother, Candace Harris Knox, fourteen years earlier. And now that Renata is on Nantucket visiting the family of her new fiancé, she takes the opportunity, against her father's wishes, to contact Marguerite in hopes of learning the story of her mother's life--and death. But the events of the day spiral hopelessly out of control for both women, and nothing ends up as planned. Welcome to The Love Season --a riveting story that takes place in one day and spans decades; a story that embraces the charming, pristine island of Nantucket, as well as Manhattan, Paris and Morocco. Elin Hilderbrand's most ambitious novel to date chronicles the famous couplings of real lives: love and friendship, food and wine, deception and betrayal--and forgiveness and healing.