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Tracing the history of the LGBTQ+ community from the Stonewall Riots and “gay liberation” movements to the groundbreaking protests of the 1980s and 1990s, Fight AIDS! is a gripping narrative of the AIDS epidemic for young readers, told through the lens of the activism it fostered. Focusing on the people most directly affected by the crisis and on the individuals who fought for justice, it is an intimate and humane account of one of the most devastating eras in United States history and an electrifying celebration of the power ordinary citizens have to enact meaningful change.

Twenty years ago, the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and I (Ben Plumley) — a then a young United Nations official — joined forces to persuade companies around the world to step up and respond to the global AIDS epidemic.The Business Fights AIDS Podcast tells that story through the diaries I wrote at the time. It's an uncharacteristically unfiltered behind-the-scenes look at how we cajoled, brow-beat, and charmed companies from all sorts of industrial sectors—mining, soft drinks, media, and pharmaceuticals—to provide HIV treatment and prevention in the workplace and fight stigma and ...

In den 1980er-Jahren versetzte HIV die Welt in Angst und Schrecken. Die Aidskrise hat bis heute Millionen Tote gefordert. Erst 1996 kam das erste wirksame Medikament auf den Markt. Heute kann man gut mit HIV leben – sofern man unter Therapie ist. In drei Folgen erzählt dieser Podcast die Geschichte von HIV und Aids in der Schweiz: FUCK: Welche Auswirkungen hatte und hat HIV auf Liebe und Sexualität? FIGHT: Welche Kämpfe wurden während der Aidskrise ausgefochten - und werden auch heute noch ausgefochten? CARE: Wer kümmerte sich um alle Menschen, die wegen ihrer Krankheit ausgestossen ...

The United States intelligence establishment is a colossus. With stations in 170 countries, armed with cutting-edge surveillance gear, high-tech weapons, and fleets of armed and unarmed drone aircraft, it commands the most extensive and advanced intel force in history. But America's spy establishment still struggles to keep pace with a host of determined enemies around the world. In Intel Wars, leading espionage historian Matthew M. Aid delivers the inside stories of our decade-long struggle against terrorism.

Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalized people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens...