Political genre books (413)
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Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad EN
EnglandDescription:
A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A novel to savour' SUNDAY TIMES 'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITH After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new. When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men - yet... continue
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Austria113.
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada EN
GermanyDescription:
"Based on a true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of a working class couple in Berlin who decide to take a stand against the Nazis. More than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order, it's a deeply moving story of two people who stand up for what's right, and for each other. Hans Fallada wrote Every Man Dies Alone in a feverish twenty-four days, soon after the end of World War II and his release from a Nazi insane asylum. He did not live to see his its publication"--Page 4 of cover.
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a... continue
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Ezeiza by Horacio Verbitsky ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
La masacre de Ezeiza del 20 de junio de 1973 cierra un ciclo de la historia Argentina y prefigura los años por venir. Contiene en germen el gobierno de Isabel y López Rega, la AAA, el genocidio del golpe de 1976, el eje militar sindical. El Comando de Organización y la CNU que Rucci puso sobre el palco dieron sus hombres a los militares para el control de campos de concentración y la intervención en Centroamérica. Al peronista reaccionario Osinde corresponde el reaccionario peronista Camps. Por eso su estudio nos habla tanto del pasado como del present... continue
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Factfulness : The Ten Reason We're Wrong About the World--And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund EN
SwedenDescription:
*the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * * Irish Times bestseller * Audio bestseller * Guardian bestseller * 'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* 'Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent miracle of human progress" as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.' MELINDA GATES Factfulness: The s... continue
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Facundo : Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
An educator and writer, Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. His Facundo is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852). The book brings nineteenth-century Latin American history to life even as it raises questions still being debated today--questions regarding the "civilized" city versus the "barbaric" countryside, the treatment of indigenous and African populations, and the classically liberal plan of modernization.
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Cuba119.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev EN
RussiaDescription:
Considered one of the world's greatest novels, this controversial classic offers modern readers a vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. Includes a new Introduction. Reissue.
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