Book type: non-fiction (1979)


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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep... continue

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Cochabamba! : Water War in Bolivia by Oscar Olivera, Tom Lewis EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Historically a common trust, water is now bought and sold as a private commodity. With billions at the mercy of an unrestrained marketplace, it is easy to understand why this precious resource is at the center of the international movement working to turn back the rising tide of corporate globalization. The triumphant struggle of grassroots activists in Cochabamba, Bolivia, sounded a significant opening salvo in the water wars. In 2001, water warriors there regained control of their water supply and defied all odds by driving out the transnational corporation that had stolen their water in the... continue

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Cold Crematorium

Cold Crematorium : Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time—from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni "As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the camps as I’ve ever encountered. It’s also a subtle if startling meditation on what it is to attempt to confront those horrors with words...Debreczeni has preserved a panoptic depiction of hell, at once personal, communal and atmospheric." —New York Times "A treasure...Debreczeni’s memoir is a crucial contribution to Holocaust literature, a book that enlarges our... continue

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Collaborating with the Enemy : How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust by Adam Kahane EN

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Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don’t agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it’s going, how it’s going to get there, and who needs to do what—is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collabor... continue

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Collection of Poems by Samuella J Conteh EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Love Colours is a collection of poems mostly submitted for poetry contests on given themes and different poetry forms. Many of the poems featured in the collection are winning poems that have been featured in anthologies which are currently available on Amazon. Some of the anthologies that feature my poems from these contests are as follows: Eternally, Stairway to Heaven, Modern Poets, Sending Love to Mom, Bowl of Peace, Amazing Minds and Reminiscing Summer. Love Colours which is my first collection, was borne out of a desire to bring my scattered pieces under one collection.

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Collective Amnesia by Putuma, Koleka EN

Rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
Description:
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices marks a massive shift in South African poetry. Kola Putuma's exploration of blackness, womxnhood and history in Collective Amnesia is fearless and unwavering. Her incendiary poems demand justice, insist on visibility and offer healing. In them, Putuma explodes the idea of authority in various spaces ñ academia, religion, politics, relationships ñ to ask what has been learnt and what must be unlearnt. Through grief and memory, pain and joy, sex and self-care, Collective Amnesia is a powerful appraisal... continue


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Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
It was a horrible death - lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, Chief Inspector Alleyn knew that any number of people could have killed him.

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Come : A Memoir by Rita Therese EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Bold, brave and darkly funny, COME is the extraordinary story of Melbourne sex worker Rita Therese and the love, sex and death she has experienced in her life so far.

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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje EN

Rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka
Description:
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he c... continue