Kultur, Ethnie & Region

Die türkischstämmige Buket erzählt von ihrer arrangierten Ehe im Alter von 15 Jahren und den katastrophalen Folgen für ihren weiteren Lebensweg...

Drei Lebensregeln sind der einzige Kompass Enaiats auf seiner Überlebensreise, die viele Jahre dauert...

The definitive biography of the most legendary basketball player of all time....

In this indelible memoir of the life of her remarkable 95-year-old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia....

Father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, Alex Dumas has become, through his son's books, the model for a captivating modern protagonist: The wronged man in search of justice....

A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian-American consciousness and the struggle to be human....

1968 reist der Autor Franz Fühmann von Ost-Berlin nach Budapest. Hinter ihm liegen die Überwindung seiner Alkoholsucht und die...

A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer....

Mit Witz und voller Temperament erzählt die Autorin von den Besuchen in ihrer Heimat und den Eigenarten ihrer Landsleute.

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American....

At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy....

Un libro lleno de amor y de humor que reconstruye, desde la evocación, la vida, la felicidad añorada y los espacios más queridos de Isabel Allende....

Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist....

What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar....

Wer sich von Rafik Schami zu einem Spaziergang durch Damaskus verführen lässt, entdeckt das Geheimnis der Königin des Orients mit allen Sinnen...

A coming-of-age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household....

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting....

A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family....

Der jüdische Humor und seine Witze vermengen sich in Erwin Javors Erzählung wie ein Mosaik mit Geschichte und persönlichen Geschichten aus Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft....

Whether it’s from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie Chan is admired by generations for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In Never Grow Up, the global superstar reflects on his early life....  

A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know....

Philippe Pozzo di Borgo gibt einen tiefen Einblick in seine bewegende Lebensgeschichte, die den Stoff für einen sensationellen Kinoerfolg lieferte...

The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....

In Herbie Hancock legendary jazz musician and composer Herbie Hancock reflects on a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence....

He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?

An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama....

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream....