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The powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, this is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another. “Rising Out of Hatred proclaims if the successor to the white...

Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement. Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early life...

Robert Hoge was born with a giant tumour on his forehead, severely distorted facial features and legs that were twisted and useless. His mother refused to look at her son, let alone bring him home. But home he went, to a life that, against the odds, was filled with joy, optimism and boyhood...

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after...

John Dearman recalls his unlikely and lucky journey from poverty in segregated and hostile central Texas to law school in Michigan and a prestigious judgeship in San Francisco. With unassuming prose and humility, the author gives not just his own experience, but the context of the time through his knowledge of the law.

You are exactly what the world needs What if your search for meaning could solve the world’s problems? What if everything you are passionate about could save a life or change history? Justin Dillon argues it can, and A Selfish Plan to Change the World shows how. In this paradigm-shifting new...

Nessuno sa il mio nome è la seconda raccolta di saggi di James Baldwin pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1961 e scritta durante la sua permanenza in Europa, quando la distanza dagli Stati Uniti, fortissimamente voluta, gli aveva permesso di riflettere in modo nuovo sulla condizione delle persone nere in una società dominata dai bianchi. Trascendere la sterile categoria di blackness, sia essa quella imposta dal mondo bianco o quella eretta a scopo difensivo dalla comunità nera, divenne il nucleo dell’opera di Baldwin come scrittore.

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.

Quarante ans après la fin du régime de Pol Pot, qui fit 1,7 million de morts, l'enfant est devenu cinéaste. Il décide de questionner un des grands responsables de ce génocide : Duch, qui n'est ni un homme banal ni un démon, mais un organisateur éduqué, un bourreau qui parle, oublie, ment, explique, travaille sa légende. L'Élimination est le récit de cette confrontation hors du commun et une méditation sur l'idéologie, le langage et l'enfance.

From the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist, and a leader in the fight for women’s suffrage and labor reforms. In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with...

If “change” is the mantra of our moment in history, Social Change 2.0 may be poised to become its bible. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation, David Gershon—described by the United Nations as a “graceful revolutionary”—offers an original and comprehensive roadmap to bring about fundamental change in our world.

The powerful and inspiring story of a man who, instead of despairing over his own impoverished plight or the systems that make it hard for others to climb out of poverty, created a solution that's breaking cycles of poverty and bringing hope to a new generation.

Ein einzigartiger Blick auf eine Zentralfigur der neueren deutschen Geschichte. Wer von Attentätern hört, der denkt an Terroristen, die aus einer fanatischen Ideologie heraus Angst und Schrecken verbreiten wollen. Nichts davon trifft auf Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg zu. Stauffenberg und sein gescheiterter Versuch, den nationalsozialistischen Wahnsinn zu stoppen, sind zu einem Mythos geworden. Allerdings basiert der inzwischen abenteuerliche Gegenentwurf auf schwachen Fakten. Der wirkliche Mensch Stauffenberg in seiner Vielfalt tritt hinter all diesen Zuschreibungen zurück.

Gegen das Vergessen: Dieses Hörbuch erinnert an den Schriftsteller und DDR-Regimekritiker Jürgen Fuchs (1950-1999). Schon früh erhält er Publikationsverbot, 1976 wird er verhaftet und ins Stasi-Gefängnis Berlin-Hohenschönhausen gebracht, 1977 nach West-Berlin abgeschoben. Dort engagiert er sich weiter, hält Kontakt zur Bürger- und Friedensbewegung in der DDR, setzt sich in seinen Werken mit seiner Verfolgung und der dogmatischen und inhumanen Gesellschaft auseinander. Damit steht er auch im Westen wie kaum ein anderer im Visier des MfS und ist zahlreichen "Zersetzungsmaßnahmen" ausgesetzt. Nach dem Mauerfall bemüht sich Fuchs um Aufklärung der Stasi-Verbrechen. 1999 stirbt er mit nur 48 Jahren an Leukämie.

Brought to you by Penguin. Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis. This urgent book chronicles the lives of the diverse young people on the frontlines of the environmental crisis around the world, amplifying...

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.

Pensieri, ricordi, poesie... Kuki Gallmann raccoglie i frammenti di una vita trascorsa in Africa. Una vita dove la felicità è stata distrutta dalla morte del marito, Paolo, e del figlio, Emanuele. L'Africa ha tolto moltissimo a Kuki Gallmann. Ma le ha anche dato molto. Forse proprio per questo lei in Africa è rimasta. La sua vita, oggi, è la vita della Fondazione Gallmann, creata per ricordare Paolo ed Emanuele. Un atto d'amore che lega il passato al futuro. Che è diventato una promessa di salvezza per la natura e gli animali in pericolo.

Von 1961 bis 1989 galt die innerdeutsche Grenze als die am schärfsten bewachte Grenze überhaupt. Für die meisten Menschen in der DDR war sie unüberwindbar. Doch viele setzten trotzdem alles daran, das Land zu verlassen. Constantin Hoffmann erzählt in seinem Buch Geschichten von Menschen, die einen Weg aus der DDR suchten und fanden. Sie beweisen, dass sich ein Volk nicht auf Dauer einsperren lässt.

This “gripping social history” (Publishers Weekly), with all the passion and pathos of a classic opera, chronicles the riveting first campaign against the death penalty waged in 1895 by American pioneer activist, Cora Slocomb, Countess of Brazzà, to save the life of a twenty-year-old...

Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years. In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality.