Ergebnis für "The Names" in Politik & Regierungen

Die Wiederentdeckung nach 70 Jahren, erstmals auf Deutsch: »Ein literarischer Diamant, scharfkantig und kristallklar«, schreibt die »Times« über József Debreczenis Erinnerungen an Auschwitz. Sein bewegender Bericht aus den Vernichtungslagern gilt als eines der größten Werke der Holocaust-Literatur. Der renommierte ungarische Journalist und Dichter József Debreczeni wurde 1944 als Jude nach Auschwitz deportiert, es folgten zwölf albtraumhafte Monate in verschiedenen Konzentrationslagern.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...

Sie agieren im Verborgenen. Mythen und Verschwörungstheorien ranken sich um sie: Geheimbünde faszinieren die Menschen seit jeher. Es heißt, sie lenken die Geschicke des Vatikans. Sie bestimmen die Agenda des amerikanischen Präsidenten. Und sie sind die Drahtzieher hinter Finanzkrisen und Kriegen.

Dieses Buch enthüllt die Hintergründe und die Macht der geheimen Gesellschaften. Sind sie tatsächlich ein Hort des Bösen, oder erlangt man durch sie tiefere Erkenntnisse? Die Autoren suchen nach Symbolen, versteckten Hinweisen und entlarven Halbwahrheiten.

Waffen, Drogen und schmutziges Geld sind ihnen nicht fremd: Die westlichen Geheimdienste haben in den vergangenen Jahren kräftig mitgemischt bei Drogenhandel, Terrorismus und organisierter Kriminalität - Verbrechen, die sie aber im Namen des Staates verübten. Der ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete, Bundesminister und Staatssekretär Andreas von Bülow enthüllt in seiner packenden Darstellung die kriminellen Machenschaften der Geheimdienste BND, Mossad und CIA und zeigt, dass sich die Nachrichtendienste keineswegs auf die Sammlung und Verarbeitung von Informationen beschränken.

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir New York Times bestseller The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an “urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agent” (Joseph D...

Enes Kanter Freedom ist der geborene Basketball-Star. Aber er opfert seine Karriere, als er merkt, dass seine Stimme die Kraft hat, Menschenrechtsverstöße in aller Welt zu beenden. In the Name of Freedom erzählt die Geschichte, wie aus Enes Kanter, einem türkischen Jungen mit einem Traum, Enes Freedom wurde, ein amerikanischer Staatsbürger, Friedensnobelpreis-Kandidat und vehementer Fürsprecher für Menschenrechte – und es berichtet von dem hohen persönlichen Preis, den er für seinen Aktivismus bezahlen musste.

A riveting story of personal hardship, the cost of political dissent, and the quest for justice that recounts how NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom became a leading activist for human rights around the world. Enes Kanter Freedom was born to play basketball. But he risked it all when he realized that...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large. Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody wants: a reliable confidant, a...

Habiburahman was born in 1979 and raised in a small village in western Burma. When he was three years old, the country's military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, were not one of the 135 recognised ethnic groups that formed the eight 'national races'. He was left stateless in his...

Community leader and former Manitoba MLA, Kevin Chief shares his story of strength, resilience, recovery, and identity. In With a Name Like Chief, Kevin frankly and honestly recounts growing up in poverty in Winnipeg's North End, navigating the challenges of growing up in a single-parent home with his alcoholic father, becoming an MVP basketball star and captain of his university team, overcoming his own alcohol addiction to find recovery, and being elected to the Manitoba legislature twice.

'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.' Sofie Hagen ‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard...

Twenty meters below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half-meter great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experienced a profound sense of affinity with her as they swam side by side, shoulder to shoulder, eye to eye, cutting a single figure through the ocean depths. It was an experience which made him realize the depth of our ignorance of the lives of sharks, leading him to become a passionate advocate for their protection.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo...

The thrilling true story of the unlikely American codebreakers who cracked Japan’s top cipher machine, eavesdropped on Hitler, and helped win World War II. In 1937, Japanese engineers invented Purple, a cipher machine capable of scrambling a message more than 500 quadrillion ways. It encrypted...

In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping true account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 Jewish children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II...

Justice Has a Name is a gripping narrative true crime podcast hosted by Laura Oliver, dedicated to shining a light on the forgotten and the unsolved. Each episode delivers an emotional journey through real-life mysteries, focusing on missing persons cases and harrowing stories of survival that demand attention. By humanizing the victims and amplifying their voices, the show offers listeners a profound sense of connection and purpose in the pursuit of truth.Dive deep into complex investigations involving cold cases, unsolved disappearances, and wrongful convictions. Explore themes of resilience...

In Her Name is a deeply moving true crime podcast hosted by Susan Davies that shines a light on the often-overlooked stories of missing women and victims of violent crime. Each episode serves as both a memorial and a call to action, transforming tragic headlines into intimate human narratives that honor the lives lost while demanding accountability from a system that frequently fails them. Susan’s compassionate narration guides listeners through complex investigations, ensuring that every victim is remembered not just as a case file, but as a beloved daughter, sister, friend, and individual ...

American psychologist William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of considerable repute and borrowed the theory of pragmatism first put forward by Charles Peirce to help form his own interpretation of the philosophy. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is based on the notion that the meaning of any idea is valid only if it works both experientially and practically. The book consists of a series of eight lectures, delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December of 1906, and at Columbia University in January 1907.

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942 - being among the first (and...