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"Bogen om Kim Wall" er fortællingen om Kim Walls liv, fortalt af dem, der var hende allernærmest: hendes forældre. Det er fortællingen om en ung, intelligent og socialt engageret journalist, verdensborger og feminist, der nysgerrigt, hårdtarbejdende og empatisk kaster sig ud i verden og livet. Det er også en bog om tiden efter, at livet blev taget fra hende. Bogen begynder det øjeblik, hvor hendes forældre får dét opkald, alle forældre frygter. Og herfra bliver mareridtet kun værre.

In the wake of one of the most tumultuous conventions in Republican history, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and Wall Street attorney for president. Though Wendell Willkie would lose to FDR, David Levering Lewis reveals in this news-making reclamation that the story of this Hoosier-born corporate chairman's life is the story of an America that could have been. Popular for his down-home Midwestern charm and unaffected candor, Willkie possessed a supple intellect and a concealed disdain for political opportunism that, had he not died prematurely, would have revolutionized American politics with its advocacy of bipartisanship and social responsibility.

Christoph Probst gehörte zum engsten Kreis der Widerstandsgruppe "Weiße Rose" in München. Zusammen mit den Geschwistern Scholl wurde er als Vater von 3 kleinen Kindern am 22.02.1943 hingerichtet. Seine privaten Briefe zeichnen das Bild eines jungen Menschen, der so in seiner verantwortungsvollen Haltung keine abstrakte Figur bleibt. Mit Einführungstext!

From the author of the New York Times best-selling and award-winning Not on Our Watch, John Prendergast co-writes a compelling book with Fidel Bafilemba—with stunning photographs by Ryan Gosling—revealing the way in which the people and resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been used throughout the last five centuries to build, develop, advance, and safeguard the United States and Europe. The book highlights the devastating price Congo has paid for that support.

In this riveting memoir, renowned feminist Judy Rebick tells the story of the 11 personalities she developed in order to help her cope with and survive childhood sexual abuse. In Heroes in My Head, Rebick chronicles her struggle with depression in the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion.

Growing up under Fascist censorship in Nazi Germany, Ruth Rappaport absorbed a forbidden community of ideas in banned books. After fleeing her home in Leipzig at fifteen and losing both parents to the Holocaust, Ruth drifted between vocations, relationships, and countries, searching for belonging and purpose. When she found her calling in librarianship, Ruth became not only a witness to history but an agent for change as well. This epic true story reveals a driven woman who survived persecution, political unrest, and personal trauma through a love of books....

Er hat seine Heimat besungen, ohne ein Heimatdichter zu sein, nahm eine dezidiert antidänische Haltung in den Streitigkeiten zwischen Österreich mit Preußen auf der einen und dem Königreich Dänemark auf der anderen Seite ein, ohne ein politischer Agitator zu sein; er verbrachte elf Jahre in Potsdam und Heiligenstadt und ist doch eng verbunden mit den Menschen und der Landschaft, die er immer wieder beschrieb: Theodor Storm. 1817 in Husum geboren, der "grauen Stadt am grauen Meer".

Pendant près de vingt ans, Ariane Laroux a rencontré l'ethnologue et résistante Germaine Tillion au cours de trente déjeuners suivis de longues conversations durant lesquelles elle peint son portrait. L'occasion pour Germaine Tillion d'évoquer sa vie, celle d'une femme qui a traversé avec courage et générosité le XXe siècle. Dès la fin des années 30, elle arpente seule le Sud algérien où elle partage la vie d'une tribu semi-nomade pour sa thèse en ethnologie.

Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe. As a white woman and a Holocaust refugee, Marione was the most unlikely of heroes in the fight for civil rights for African Americans. This is her empowering story - a tale of courage, strength, and determination.

In Our Auntie Rosa, Mrs. Parks' loved ones share their remembrances and reflections to create a previously unpainted picture of the real woman behind the legend. Rosa Parks largely disappeared from the public when she and her husband, Raymond, relocated to Detroit in 1957, escaping the violently racist South. It was in Detroit where Mrs. Parks reconnected with her only sibling, Sylvester McCauley, whom she affectionately called "Brother", and her 13 nieces and nephews.

Publié en France en 2017 par Actes Sud, le recueil "Le silence même n'est plus à toi" rassemble quelques-unes des chroniques d'Aslı Erdoğan parues dans le journal Özgür Gündem, où elle dénonçait les atteintes à la liberté d'opinion. Elle le fait avec une grande exigence poétique, mêlant lucidité et beauté de la langue.

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld. Again and again, he wasn't afraid to risk his own life when others' safety was at risk. Nearly all of Hirschfeld's family members were murdered by Nazis; she survived in hiding - and met Heinz again by coincidence after the war was over. They married in 1946. At that time, starting over was difficult. In the judicial service, Drossel witnessed Nazis continuing with their careers....

In 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the US alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications - among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Hold Tight Gently is the celebrated historian Martin Duberman’s poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes....

In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Salaita's employment was terminated in response to his public tweets criticizing the Israeli government's summer assault on Gaza. Salaita's firing generated a huge public outcry, with thousands petitioning for his reinstatement, and more than 5,000 scholars pledging to boycott UIUC.

Il nome di Edward Snowden è uscito alla ribalta nei media nel giugno 2013, in seguito ad alcune sue dichiarazioni circa le azioni di spionaggio del governo americano nei confronti dei suoi cittadini. Subito associato a un eroe da quella parte di popolazione che lotta per la libertà di pensiero, la privacy e la democrazia, Snowden ha iniziato a fuggire di Paese in Paese, cercando di evitare la rappresaglia del governo americano.

In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans.

A riveting memoir of the first Israeli-born Jewish American to be sent as a Peace Corps volunteer to a closed Arab society. A good memoir is a survivor's tale - the story of a person who has faced obstacles and made it through well enough to tell it. Dalya Cohen-Mor, a Sabra-born American woman, volunteered to serve in the Peace Corps, went through a lengthy and highly competitive application process, was accepted, and was sent to serve in the predominantly Palestinian country of Jordan.

La biografia dedicata all'uomo che più di ogni altro negli Stati Uniti ha contribuito a difendere e sostenere i diritti umani nei confronti delle minoranze emarginate e discriminate: Martin Luther King. Riconosciuto in maniera unanime come eroe instancabile della resistenza non violenta, difensore tenace della libertà e dell'uguaglianza, avversario risoluto del pregiudizio razziale, Martin Luther King si è sempre esposto in prima linea predicando l'amore e la pace, sognando un mondo migliore.

Autism shakes up your world. It has changed my life and I wasn't even the one diagnosed with it. My brother's name is Ethan Wolfgang, but we call him Deets. He is one of the greatest gifts my family has ever received. And one of the most challenging.

James Carr started fighting when he was very young, and never gave up. A child prodigy of crime in the streets of the L.A. ghettos and scourge of half a dozen boys’ homes, his career in armed robbery was quickly cut short by arrest. In prison he fought harder than ever, and became one of the most notorious rebels in the seething California Penal System. Linking up with George Jackson in Folsom, they led the notorious Wolf Pack, which quickly fought its way to a position of strength in the prison race war.