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Activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous anti-slavery writers in American history. Following 20 years of enslavement in Maryland, Douglass made a daring bid for freedom in 1838, travelling north via the "underground railroad" before arriving in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he would settle. It was not long before Douglass took up the cause of black Americans, risking his freedom through writing and lecturing, and travelling the globe to spread his message.

The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world....

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions listeners don't dare ask and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.

Dan Savage’s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says “no thanks” because he doesn’t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son, D.J., says his two dads aren’t “allowed” to get married but that he’d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan’s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone - gay or straight, right or left, single or married - howling with laughter.

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives.

Hugh Quarshie reads the extraordinary autobiography of Solomon Northup. His harrowing true story, first published in 1853, was a key factor in the national debate over slavery prior to the American Civil War, significantly changing public opinion on the topic of abolition. It tells the horrifying tale of Solomon Northup, an educated, free black man living with his wife and children in New York State, whose life takes an appalling turn when he is kidnapped, drugged and sold into slavery.

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than five hundred Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. During the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms, killed at least 140 men, women, and children, and took about 40 captives. So began the Tuscarora War, North Carolina's bloodiest colonial war and surely one of its most brutal.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a nation could look at a people every day and still refuse to see their souls? In *The Souls of Black Folk*, W. E. B. Du Bois created one of the defining works of African American literature, social thought, and moral witness. First published in...

Kan én sommer i Grækenland bringe tilgivelse for fortidens hemmeligheder? Kat er knust over det pludselige tab af sin elskede tvillingebror, Nik, og hun kæmper for at finde mening i et liv, der er vendt på hovedet. At have familien omkring sig er en trøst, men også kvælende, så da hun...

En dag i april er en inspirerende historie af Morten Andersen. Det er en stærk fortælling om, hvad der sker når en ung mand fra det ene øjeblik til det andet bliver kørestolsbruger. Man får indblik i de fysiske og følelsesmæssige udfordringer en ulykkesramt mødes af. Men der er...

I en nær fremtid fryser Nordeuropa, og mere end 100 millioner indbyggere er tvunget på flugt. I et øde hjørne af Danmark ligger en lille landsby, hvor nogle få familier endnu forsøger at overleve det nye miljø, hvor de er afskåret fra omverdenen. Da kulden bliver værre, og mad og...

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable...

إن كنت تظن نفسك مكون من خلايا فأنت مخطئ، ففي عالمنا الحالي أنت مكون من معلومات! أنت تاريخ تصفحك على محركات البحث، وبيانات دخولك على هاتفك المحمول، ومعلومات...

A rousing, inspiring call-to-action that encourages us to embrace the economic potential of refugee women and break the invisible barriers that constrain their power Every day, thousands of women are forced from their homes by armed conflict, persecution, and violence. Jina Krause-Vilmar has...

Por que a Amazônia está queimando nos últimos anos? Beka vai para a região mais tensa do estado do Pará com nossa equipe para questionar autoridades locais e fazendeiros sobre o aumento das práticas de incêndio em áreas protegidas e...

O povo Munduruku lutou quatro anos contra o Complexo Hidrelétrico do Tapajós, engavetado em 2016. Mas as ameaças dos grandes projetos de investimento na Amazônia se multiplicam, envolvendo ferrovias, rodovias, mineradoras, hidrelétricas e linhas de...

Há bem mais no subsolo da Amazônia do que podemos imaginar, e isso torna esse território cada vez mais cobiçado. As operações legais e ilegais de extração de metais preciosos, principalmente ouro, estão espalhadas pela floresta...

Há algo de novo emergindo da Amazônia brasileira: vozes fortes e jovens ecoando no ativismo ambiental em defesa da floresta e dos povos originários. Assim como Beka Munduruku, uma nova geração munida de celulares e câmeras resiste para continuar existindo...

Para o povo Munduruku, cada tronco de ipê é um ancestral da sua família. Para madeireiros, cada tronco de ipê é dinheiro no bolso. Essa árvore, sagrada para os Munduruku, é hoje uma das mais cobiçadas no mercado de madeira. Neste episó...

Há muitas formas de defender a Amazônia. Entre os povos que habitam a floresta, há extrativismo sustentável, há regeneração de áreas desmatadas, há coleta de sementes para reflorestamento, há brigadas comunitárias de...