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How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight? Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras and crowds, she spent...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of In Order to Live written by Yeonmi Park and read by Eji Kim. Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her...

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself.

"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowan A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto – A voice for generations Rose McGowan was born in...

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his...

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse's mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers....

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world —and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all. Martin Luther King: the child and student who rebelled against segregation. The dedicated minister who...

Katja Riemann ist seit 20 Jahren in der Welt unterwegs, ist vor Ort, schaut hin. Über Jahre hat sie die Arbeit von Molly Melching, der Gründerin von "Tostan" beobachtet, die in senegalesischen Dorfgemeinschaften das Ende der Beschneidung von Mädchen herbeiführt. An der Seite von Friedensnobelpreisträger Dr. Denis Mukwege und dem Arzt und Aktivisten Dr. Kasereka Lusi hat sie sich ein Bild machen können über den Einsatz der Vergewaltigung als Kriegsinstrument im Ostkongo.

Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a guidebook on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for the revolutionary movement. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla warfare as the only effective agent to achieve political change.

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a...

‘I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest . . . But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.’...

Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurprisingly, little read. Her groundbreaking book, The Hite Report, was the first feminist exploration of the link between sex and male power. It sold millions of copies when first published in 1976 and revolutionized the way people thought about marriage and the female orgasm. How, then, did it, and Hite, disappear from public consciousness?

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantv°namo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantv°namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime...

A SPECTATOR AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times 'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - and often feared - by the West' Vogue Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of...

By the age of five, Naz Shah was used to the sight of her father beating her mother. At six, her father left the family for a teenage neighbour. At twelve, she was sent to Pakistan for protection from her mother's new abuser, only to be forced into marriage at the age of fifteen. Within a couple...

Florence Nightingales vorgezeichnete Zukunft: schöngeistige Ausbildung, Hochzeit, Hausfrau und Mutter. Doch bestärkt durch ihren Glauben kämpfte sie um ihren Traum: Menschen zu helfen, die unter widrigsten Bedingungen in englischen Hospitälern dahinvegetierten. Im Krimkrieg wurde sie zur Nationalheldin und ging als "Die Lady mit der Lampe" in die Geschichte ein.

Verfilmung mit Ulrich Tukur und Daniel Brühl ab April 2009 im Kino. Wochenlang zogen im Winter 1937/38 japanische Soldaten plündernd durch die damalige chinesische Hauptstadt Nanking, vergewaltigten Frauen und Mädchen und töteten jeden, der Widerstand leistete. Wenig bekannt ist, dass es auch Menschen gab, die mit verzweifeltem Einsatz für das Leben von Zivilisten kämpften – an ihrer Spitze der deutsche Kaufmann John Rabe, Leiter der Siemens-Vertretung in Nanking und NSDAP-Mitglied.

Choose yourself. Reclaim your body. Become whole. The deeply personal and uniquely empowering call to arms from author, model and activist, Charli Howard. 'Powerful and incredibly validating' Lily Reinhart 'Extraordinary' Glamour 'Fierce and tender' Yrsa Daley-Ward 'Urgent and timely' Emma...

Leichen tanzte Valeska Gert gern - vor dem Sterben aber fürchtete sie sich. Schon als 14-jähriges Mädchen lag sie nächtelang schlaflos in ihrem Bett, immer in Angstschweiß gebadet bei dem Gedanken, ein frühzeitiger Tod könne ihr Dasein abrupt beenden, noch bevor sie das eigentliche Leben kennen gelernt und ausgekostet habe: "Ich wäre beinahe verrückt geworden, wenn ich nicht angefangen hätte zu tanzen." Und sie tanzte - und entdeckte so das angenehm wohltuende, körperliche Empfinden, welches dabei die eigenen Bewegungen in ihr hervorriefen.

Von 1961 bis 1989 galt die innerdeutsche Grenze als die am schärfsten bewachte Grenze überhaupt. Für die meisten Menschen in der DDR war sie unüberwindbar. Doch viele setzten trotzdem alles daran, das Land zu verlassen. Constantin Hoffmann erzählt in seinem Buch Geschichten von Menschen, die einen Weg aus der DDR suchten und fanden. Sie beweisen, dass sich ein Volk nicht auf Dauer einsperren lässt.