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Die vierte Wand: Roman by Sorj Chalandon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKann Theater Frieden schaffen?Paris 1982: Georges verspricht seinem sterbenskranken Freund Samuel, einem Theaterregisseur, seinen Herzenswunsch zu erfüllen: die Aufführung von ›Antigone‹ im vom Bürgerkrieg zerrütteten Beirut, direkt an der Front, in einem zerbombten Kinosaal, mit einem Ensemble, das sämtliche Kriegsparteien repräsentiert... -
![Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami]()
Life is Beautiful/La Vita è Bella: A Screenplay by Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many... -
![Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan]()
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette... -
![Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano]()
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself by Tim Kennedy, Nick Palmisciano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself.Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die... -
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![Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro]()
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces... -
![No Sleep Till Shengal by Zerocalcare]()
No Sleep Till Shengal by Zerocalcare
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNella primavera del 2021 Zerocalcare si reca in Iraq, per far visita alla comunità ezida di Shengal, minacciata dalle tensioni internazionali e protetta dalle milizie curde, e documentarne le condizioni di vita e la lotta... -
![El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa]()
El abismo del olvido by Paco Roca, Rodrigo Terrasa
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPaco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrigo Terrasa la historia real de Leoncio Badía —joven republicano obligado a trabajar de sepulturero—; de José Celda —fusilado y enterrado en una fosa común, ejemplo de las decenas de miles de españoles que fueron represaliados de forma salvaje por el régimen franquista—; y de Pepica Celda —hija de... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden]()
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history.In 2018, Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” It was from an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with scant meals...Categorized as:
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![Sois jeune et tais-toi: Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse by Salomé Saqué]()
Sois jeune et tais-toi: Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse by Salomé Saqué
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChanger de regard sur la jeunesse.Les jeunes seraient « paresseux », « incultes », voire « égoïstes et individualistes ». J'ai entendu mille fois ces accusations à l'égard de la jeunesse : dans des dîners de famille, à la volée chez un commerçant ou portées par des éditorialistes remontés à la télévision... -
![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk]()
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccount of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade... -
![Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein]()
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless... -
![The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke]()
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq,” (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing ), The Last Punisher is a gripping and intimate on-the-ground memoir from a Navy SEAL who was part of SEAL Team THREE with American Sniper Chris Kyle... -
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![The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy]()
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMeet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones.We rarely stop to consider where they come from. But we should...Categorized as:
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![Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian]()
Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years by Mihail Sebastian
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, a music-lover's journal... -
![Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti]()
Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
![История Российского Государства. Ордынский период by Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin]()
История Российского Государства. Ордынский период by Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsВторой том "Истории Российского Государства. Ордынский период" охватывает период с 1223 по 1462 год."В биографии всякой страны есть главы красивые, ласкающие национальное самолюбие, и некрасивые, которые хочется забыть или мифологизировать. Эпоха монгольского владычества в русской истории - самая неприглядная... -
![The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley]()
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEurope is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley...Categorized as:
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![Между Азией и Европой. История Российского государства. От Ивана III до Бориса Годунова by Boris Akunin, Борис Акунин]()
Между Азией и Европой. История Российского государства. От Ивана III до Бориса Годунова by Boris Akunin, Борис Акунин
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsВ этой книге оживают страницы отечественной истории XV–VI веков – как драматичные, ключевые события, так и небольшие эпизоды, о влиянии которых на ход истории порой мало кто задумывается. Охвачен период с момента освобождения Руси от иноземного владычества до великой Смуты – новой утраты независимости в результате внутреннего кризиса и вражеского вторжения... -
![No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid]()
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Rania Abouzeid has produced a work of stunning reportage from the very heart of the conflict, daring to go to the most dangerous places in order to get the story...Categorized as:
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![The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein]()
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of PalestineIsrael’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies...Categorized as:
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![The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev]()
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk... -
![Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir by Malik Sajad]()
Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir by Malik Sajad
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy’s childhood.Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, older brother Bilal. It also revolves around Munnu’s two favourite things – sugar and drawing... -
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![Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć by Wojciech Tochman]()
Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDzisiaj narysujemy śmierć to reporterska opowieść o tym, jakie konsekwencje niesie ludobójstwo nie tylko dla jego sprawców i ofiar, ale także dla nas – świadków. Tochman wikła czytelników w cierpienie swoich bohaterów, a każdy z nich jest ze swoją historią konkretny, pojedynczy, wyjątkowy... -
![Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]()
Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald)... -
![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater... -
![Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath]()
Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked... -
![Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart]()
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent." -- Rush Limbaugh Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to make sure the "liberally biased" major news outlets in this country cover all aspects of a story fairly. Breitbart is convinced that too many national stories are slanted by the news media in an unfair way... -
![The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva]()
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War by Greg Marinovich, João Silva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people, upon hearing gunfire, would run away and hide. Conflict photojournalists have the opposite reaction: they actually look for trouble, and when they find it, get as close as possible and stand up to get the best shot...
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