Book type: non-fiction (1983)
1381.
Talking to My Daughter : A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis EN
GreeceDescription:
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times. In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions, Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity, while inspiring us to make it a better one.
1382.
Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell EN
EnglandDescription:
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challengi... continue
1383.
Talmeş balmeş de etnologie şi multe altele : Haide, bre! : incursiune subiectivă în lumea aromânilor by Irina Nicolau RO
RomaniaDescription:
Volumul "Haide, bre!: incursiune subiectivă în lumea aromânilor. Talmeş balmeş de etnologie şi multe altele", de Irina Nicolau, este o colecţie de articole şi scurte eseuri, care acoperă un spectru larg de subiecte, în cea mai mare parte pe teme etnologice. Lucrarea regretatei autoare, etnolog de prestigiu, director pentru Programe Etnologice la Muzeul Tăranului Român, a fost aşteptată cu nerăbdare de personalitâti culturale româneşti. Această lucrare, unică în peisajul lucrărilor româneşti, este de fapt alcătuită din două volume &ndash... continue
1384.
Taste : The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun EN
IrelandDescription:
Chronicles the social history of Britain through the evolution of its food, tracing the development of aristocratic tastes and street food across the country from pre-Roman times to the present day.
1385.
Tasting the Sky : A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat EN
PalestineDescription:
"When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!" But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember. In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be a child whose world is shattered by war. With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her childhood: fear and confusion as bombs explode near her home and she is separated from her family; the harshness of life in the Middle East as a Palestinian refugee; her unexpected joy when she di... continue
1386.
Team Up: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera by Francesca Ferretti de Blonay EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
This series looks at the magic that can happen when two talents meet and work together. Frida and Diego's relationship is one of the greatest but most turbulent love affairs in art history. They painted each other, worked together and inspired each other for 25 years, and are probably the most legendary artistic couple of all time.
1387.
Tehran Children : A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel EN
IsraelDescription:
Author Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel’s father and aunt were... continue
1388.
Tell Me how it Ends : An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
1389.
Tell Me Why You Fled: True Stories of Seeking Refuge by Karen O’Reilly EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
A candid and irreverent memoir about helping people find refuge - from war, and torture and genocide - as a young woman seeking refuge from herself.
1390.
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe EN
Description:
In this groundbreaking book, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. This has been updated with a new afterword on the 2023 invasion of Gaza. 1. Palestine was an Empty Land 2. The Jews were a people with out a land 3. Zionism is Judaism 4. Zionism is not Colonialism 5. The Palestinians Voluntarily Left their Homelands in 1948 6. The June 1967 War was a war of 'No Choice' 7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East 8. The Myths about the Oslo Agreement 9. The Lies we ... continue