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“What does ‘allegiance’ mean?” the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart. In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell’s extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.

Ein tadschikischer Gastarbeiter, der in die Fänge des Moskauer Organhandels gerät. Ein Antikorruptions-Ermittler, der von seinem Verfahren abgezogen wird. Ein Regierungsbeamter, der sich auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere die Sinnfrage stellt. Ein Provinzpolitiker, der urplötzlich mit der bitteren Wahrheit unverfälschter Wahlergebnisse konfrontiert wird. Dmitry Glukhovskys "Geschichten aus der Heimat" sind kleine Fenster in die Untiefen der russischen Gesellschaft.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed place where there are few people, fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such as Glen Conach - may actually be harder to piece...

Sarah Woods has developed a reputation for taking seemingly un-dramatisable non-fiction classics and turning them into gripping and immersive audio drama. Four seminal political books are here brought to life and into the twenty-first century, and ideas that have been fascinating and shaping society for hundreds of years are developed into brilliant, insightful dramas. How does humanity's success also mean its potential destruction? And what do we need to turn from this danger, and instead develop a global system that's positive, sustainable, and better for the masses rather than the few?