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In this deeply personal account, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their lives in abortion care, from the childhood experiences that shaped their paths to the Supreme Court decision that forced the closure of their Dallas clinic. Their stories begin in the 1960s, as Curtis opens a clandestine abortion practice while breaking with the beliefs of his Baptist family and Glenna pursues psychology while coming to understand the world of restrictive gender roles.

À la fin des années 50, Rachel Carson se concentra sur la protection de l'environnement et sur les problèmes causés par les biocides de synthèse. Ceci la conduisit à publier Silent Spring (Printemps silencieux) en 1962 qui déclencha un renversement dans la politique nationale envers les biocides — conduisant à une interdiction nationale du DDT et d'autres pesticides. Le mouvement populaire que le livre inspira conduisit à la création de " l'Environmental Protection Agency " . Carson reçut à titre posthume la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté.

JUDITH BUTLER (1956) es una figura incómoda, a veces incomprendida y otras mal interpretada y aun instrumentalizada como diana de la polémica en el ámbito de campañas ideológicas, empezando por cuanto atañe a las cuestiones de género y la teoría crítica.

Desde los años de su compromiso político juvenil en defensa de la República y a lo largo de su prolongado exilio, la política jamás dejó de nutrir la reflexión filosófica de María Zambrano (1904-1991), enlazándose con algunos de los motivos más persistentes y profundos de su pensamiento: la libertad y su indisoluble vínculo con la necesidad; la democracia concebida como un ejercicio de la formación plena de la persona; la diferencia sexual y su dimensión simbólica; la condición natal y la vulnerabilidad inherente a la existencia humana.

Jane Fonda, Sexsymbol, Aktivistin, Schauspielerin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

The Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina, have been highly revered figures in American history, lauded for leaving behind their lives as elite slave-owning women on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand abolitionists in the North. Yet the focus on their story has obscured the experiences of their Black relatives, the progeny of their brother, Henry, and one of the enslaved people he owned, a woman named Nancy Weston.

Almost a decade ago, author and educator William J. Bennett and John T. E. Cribb published a 365-day almanac of our nation's history. Now, in this updated and expanded series compiled from The American Patriot's Almanac, Bennett and Cribb's masterful grasp of our history offers 150 more great...

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are...

Acclaimed as a public scientist and as a spokesperson on pressing environmental and equity issues, delivering his message from the classroom to 60 Minutes, Paul R. Ehrlich reflects on his life, including his love affair with his wife, Anne, his scientific research, his public advocacy, and his concern for global issues.

Jenn Budd, the only former US Border Patrol agent to continually blow the whistle on this federal agency's rampant corruption, challenges us—as individuals and as a nation—to face the consequences of our actions. Her journey offers a vital perspective on the unfolding moral crisis of our time. She also gives harrowing testimony about rape culture, white privilege, women in law enforcement, LGBTQ issues, mental illness, survival, and forgiveness.

El 4 de junio de 1972, el tribunal de San José, California, tras trece horas de deliberación, trece semanas de proceso y un jurado compuesto íntegramente por blancos, declara inocente a ANGELA YVONNE DAVIS (1944), acusada dos años antes de participación en homicidio, secuestro y conspiración. Terminaba así el proceso judicial de la activista y filósofa afroamericana, discípula de Herbert Marcuse y una de las figuras más destacadas e influyentes del llamado Black Power.

Poli Poli is a remarkable history that speaks to African identity, close family bonds, belonging, struggle and sacrifice, women’s rights and femininity and is written with the lyricism and transporting detail of one of the country’s greatest wordsmiths. Barbara Masekela powerfully conveys the realities of life under apartheid and illustrates the features and characteristics of life in a coal-mining community like KwaGuqa in the 1940s, Alexandra township in the 1950s and one of the oldest girls-only schools in KwaZulu-Natal, Inanda Seminary.

Der Elbschlosskeller, direkt gegenüber vom "Goldenen Handschuh", ist seit über 50 Jahren ununterbrochen geöffnet und gilt als härteste Kneipe Deutschlands. Hier gehen Obdachlose, Prostituierte, gestrandete Existenzen, aber auch Millionäre, Sozialpädagogen oder Anwälte ein und aus. Einzigartige Schicksale, Dramen und Tragödien spielen sich ab. Eine düstere, faszinierende Parallelwelt, in der sich nicht nur traurige, sondern auch viele schöne, weil zutiefst menschliche Momente abspielen.

Harriet Tubman was known as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. But this wasn’t a railroad that carried trains and freight but rather human lives that were desperately seeking freedom. It was a clandestine group of individuals (hence the name “underground”) scattered across the United States and Canada who helped facilitate the migration of those ensnared in the South’s scourge of slavery to the so-called free states and provinces of the North.

Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is...

Driven by his single mother's dreams for his survival and success, Kevin Powell became the first in his family to attend a university, where he became a student leader keenly aware of widespread social injustice. But the struggle to define himself and break out of poverty continued into adulthood, with traumatic periods of homelessness and despair. As a young star journalist with Vibe magazine, Powell interviewed luminaries such as Tupac Shakur, writing influential chronicles of the evolution of hip-hop from his eyewitness view.

The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements...

Es fing nicht mit Politik an. Es fing damit an, dass ihn jemand haben wollte. Philip Schlaffer wächst behütet an der Ostseeküste auf. Mit zehn zieht er nach England, wird dort als Deutscher gemobbt und kehrt vier Jahre später zurück – in ein Land, dessen Sprache er inzwischen halb verlernt hat. Er ist der Außenseiter. Bis er eine Gruppe findet, in der er plötzlich dazugehört. Und eine Musik, die ihm vermittelt: Du bist richtig, so wie du bist.

A powerful, moving memoir from Mohawk Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller—a story of resilience, cultural strength and redefining what true success means At fourteen, Waneek Horn-Miller survived being stabbed during the Oka Crisis—an experience that could have ended her Olympic dreams. Instead...

The forgotten story of a criminal trial that brought national attention to a young defendant named Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as told by Fred D. Gray, Dr. King’s lawyer and friend, along with New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher. The audiobook concludes with an...