Book type: non-fiction (2025)
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Ireland622.
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school. But one girl with courage is a revolution.Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty.Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. She examines barriers to education in depth—early child marriage and childbearing, slavery, sexual traffickin... continue
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Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust : How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives by Haim Shapira EN
LithuaniaDescription:
"One of the best Decision Making and Game Theory books of all time." —Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder) and Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of Black Swan), BookAuthority An accessible, light-hearted exploration of Game Theory—what it is, why it’s important, and how it can help us in our daily lives Game Theory is the mathematical formalization of interactive decision-making—it assumes that each player's goal is to maximize his/her benefit, whatever it may be. Players may be friends, foes, political parties, states, or any entity that behaves interactively, whether collectively or individually. One... continue
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Glänzende Aussicht : Roman by Fang Fang DE
ChinaDescription:
Dieser heute in China unterdrückte Roman machte Fang Fang bei seinem Erscheinen 1987 schlagartig berühmt: Glänzende Aussicht erzählt das Leben einer einfachen Arbeiterfamilie aus Wuhan aus Sicht des verstorbenen jüngsten Sohnes. Es ist ein drastisches Porträt: Zu elft haust die Familie in einer dreizehn Quadratmeter kleinen Hütte. Schon die Jüngsten lernen stehlen, um ihren Beitrag zum Familienleben zu leisten, Schlägereien sind an der Tagesordnung und zärtlichere Töne rar. Im Schatten eines Vaters, der vor allem mit der Faust erzieht, ver... continue
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Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame: a documentary novel by Ag Apolloni EN
KosovoDescription:
A unique voice from Europe’s newest country, rooted in its oldest literary traditions – now in English for the first time. Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame is a documentary novel of the true tragedy of two mothers after the Kosovo War of 1999: one lost her whole family and continues to lay the table for them more than twenty years later; the other burned herself to death when the remains of two of her sons were returned. A mosaic of the evil fortunes of war and the painful consequences of peace, the novel echoes the eternal truths of ancient Greek tragedy as it tells the sorrows of modern war... continue
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Papua New Guinea627.
God : A Human History by Reza Aslan EN
IranDescription:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Zealot explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. Acc... continue
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God Grew Tired of Us by John Bul Dau, Michael S. Sweeney EN
SudanDescription:
Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland because of a civil war. They triumph over adversities and relocate to the U.S., where they remain deeply committed to helping the friends and family they left behind.
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God Is Not a Christian : And Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
In this essential collection of Desmond Tutu’s most historic and controversial speeches and writings, we witness his unique career of provoking the powerful and confronting the world in order to protect the oppressed, the poor, and other victims of injustice. Renowned first for his courageous opposition to apartheid in South Africa, he and his ministry soon took on international dimensions. Rooted in his faith and in the values embodied in the African spirit of ubuntu, Tutu’s uncompromising vision of a shared humanity has compelled him to speak out, even in the face of violent opposition and v... continue
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Netherlands