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Auteur:Settis, Salvatore, Naffis-Sahely, AndréSommaire:What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by the internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic and...
- Auteur:Rainbow, DavidSommaire:
Is the concept of "race" applicable to Russia and the Soviet Union? Citing the idea of Russian exceptionalism, many would argue that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while nationalities mattered, race did not. Others...
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Auteur:Alifirenka, Caitlin, Ganda, Martin, Welch, LizSommaire:It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown foreign student. In Zimbabwe Martin received a letter than started a six year friendship. In this compelling memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became...
- Auteur:Kostyuchenko, ElenaSommaire:
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage." -Clarissa Ward, CNN chief...
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Auteur:Saniee, Parinoush, Kalantari, SanamSommaire:This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for...
- Auteur:Akunyili-Parr, ChidiogoSommaire:
Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A...
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Auteur:Penikett, TonySommaire:Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but...
- Auteur:Jasilyn ChargerSommaire:
How We Go Home shares contemporary first-person stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land, rights, and life. Each of the twelve narrators' lives has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience—and by the struggle...
- Auteur:Jones, KimberlySommaire:
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win." "So if I played four hundred rounds...
- Auteur:Smith, ClintSommaire:
Poet and educator Clint Smith explores the places where the history of slavery has been preserved, if not fully reckoned with. Included are New Orleans, Monticello Plantation, Angola Prison, Blandford Cemetery, and others hidden in...
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Auteur:Bryant, John Hope, Young, AndrewSommaire:John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we...
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Auteur:Mazigh, Monia, Reed, Fred A.Sommaire:Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to...
- Auteur:Vance, J. D.Sommaire:
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and...
- Auteur:Chambers, CassieSommaire:
After rising from poverty to earn a Harvard degree, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong "hill women" who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region-an uplifting...
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Auteur:Dorries, NadineSommaire:In the Four Streets in Liverpool, a dreadful murder has been committed, and 14-year-old Kitty Doherty is pregnant with the dead man's child. This secret is so dangerous that her mother, Maura, and the redoubtable Kathleen, her best...
- Auteur:Smarsh, SarahSommaire:
An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies...
- Auteur:English, T. J.Sommaire:
In Havana Nocturne , T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the mob in Havana and...
- Auteur:Rhodes-Pitts, SharifaSommaire:
As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem's history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared...
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Auteur:Rajakumar, MohanalakshmiSommaire:
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