Political genre books (424)
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Children of Crisis Volume 1: A Study of Courage and Fear by Robert Coles EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An analysis of the impact of a social revolution. Illustrated with a collection of drawings by negro & white children.
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City on Fire : The Fight for Hong Kong by ANTONY. DAPIRAN EN
AustraliaDescription:
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People's Liberation Army to the doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by youth protesters with their 'Be water!' philosophy, borrowed from hometown hero Bruce Lee, this l... continue
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Coming Up for Air by George Orwell EN
IndiaDescription:
Middle-aged George Bowling perceives the true condition of the world when he visits his childhood home in the late 1930's
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Como si yo no estuviera by Slavenka Drakulic ES
CroatiaDescription:
S. es bosnia y está en un hospital de Estocolmo, donde ha dado a luz un niño. ¿Por qué sólo siente indiferencia, y hasta se imagina sofocándolo con una almohada? No quiere ni siquiera verlo, y antes de que naciera ya lo había dispuesto todo para darlo en adopción. Pero ella casi no habla sueco, se produce un malentendido y las enfermeras lo dejan a su lado. Aquello abre las puertas de la memoria y S., en la cama del hospital, recuerda el verano de 1992, cuando los soldados serbios ocuparon el pueblo en el que ella vivía y trabajaba... continue
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Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi EN
ItalyDescription:
Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers. When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience he must accept the battling priest's presence among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, Don Camillo becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation. But then fate intervenes and the travellers discover a surprise common denominator more radical than any political ideology... 'Those who read The Little World of Don Camill... continue
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Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubled past in this taut and compelling novel from the Booker Prize longlisted author of An Island
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said EN
PalestineDescription:
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Grandly conceived . . . urgently written and urgently needed. . . . No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work.' --The New York Times Book Review In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield P... continue
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Dagboek Majdan by Andrej Jurʹevič Kurkov NL
RussiaDescription:
Dagboekfragmenten van de Oekraïense schrijver (1961) waarin hij een inkijkje geeft in zijn dagelijks leven ten tijde van de grootschalige Euromajdan-protesten in Kyiv van november 2013 tot en met april 2014.