Ergebnis für "Why We Matter" in Literatur & Belletristik

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their...

Struktureller Rassismus über Jahrhunderte: Eine Alternativ-Weltgeschichte Anna ist 20 Jahre alt und studiert Geschichtswissenschaft. Sie ist die Erste ihrer Familie, die es geschafft hat, eine Zulassung an der Hochschule zu erhalten. Denn für Weiße ist es eher ungewöhnlich, einen Studienplatz zu bekommen. Um nicht aufzufallen und diesem Privileg gerecht zu werden, verhält sich die junge Frau möglichst unauffällig.

Bear, Otter, and the Kid survived last summer with their hearts and souls intact. They've moved into the Green Monstrosity, and Bear is finally able to admit his love for the man who saved him from himself. But that's not the end of their story. How could it be? The boys find that life doesn't stop just because they got their happily ever after. There's still the custody battle for the Kid. The return of Otter's parents. A first trip to a gay bar. The Kid goes to therapy, and Mrs. Paquinn decides that Bigfoot is real.

January 1782, Portsmouth. His Britannic Majesty's frigate Phalarope is ordered to the assistance of the hard-pressed squadrons in the Caribbean. Aboard is her new commander - Richard Bolitho. To all appearances the Phalarope is everything a young captain could wish for. But beneath the surface she is a deeply unhappy ship - her wardroom torn by petty greed and ambition, her deckhands driven to near mutiny by senseless ill treatment.

Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel". In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child?