Ergebnis für "das ende" in Großstadt

Dauerstress, Lärm und permanente Erreichbarkeit prägen den Alltag moderner Gesellschaften. Aktivität gilt als Maßstab für Leistung, Geschäftigkeit als Zeichen von Produktivität. Doch diese permanente Betriebsamkeit hat Folgen: Konzentration, Ruhe und Rückzug als Voraussetzungen für Denken, Wissensarbeit und politische Urteilskraft gehen zunehmend verloren. Der Essayband „Ruhe!“ untersucht diese Entwicklung in drei miteinander verbundenen Essays.

Brought to you by Penguin. Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. Drawing on decades spent fighting infectious disease before founding Cure Violence Global, Dr Gary Slutkin shows that violence behaves...

Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, harness our power and win the housing we deserve.

A Child of the East End is an eye-opening, heartfelt and atmospheric portrait of life in the East End after the war, and is perfect for fans of My East End by Gilda O'Neill, Four Meals for Fourpence by Grace Foakes and Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth. Life in Cockney London was tough in the...

In the late 1960s and 1970s Carlo Rotella grew up in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood—a place of neat bungalow blocks and desolate commercial strips, and sharp, sometimes painful social contrasts. In the decades since, the hollowing out of the middle class has left residents confronting—or avoiding—each other across an expanding gap that makes it ever harder for them to recognize each other as neighbors. Rotella tells the stories that reveal how that happened. 

In this memoir about overcoming adversity in America, the U. S. Senator responsible for creating "opportunity zones" explains how hard work and community growth can drive businesses and end poverty. Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from North Charleston, South...