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How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet—in spite of anything and everything—they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together. The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for women, life, and freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst...

Deutschland ist trotz aller Probleme nach wie vor eines der politisch stabilsten, sozial sichersten, wirtschaftlich stärksten und gesellschaftlich freiheitlichsten Länder der Welt. Doch Populisten und Extremisten vermitteln ein ganz anderes Bild, versuchen auch in Deutschland die Demokratie zu demontieren.

A mais completa e refinada análise da experiência petista antes, durante e depois dos anos no poder. O PT foi o grande vencedor de eleições presidenciais da Nova República, produziu seu líder mais popular e, de certa forma, representa as vitórias e derrotas do Brasil no período. Talvez...

A primeira — e aguardada — biografia de vulto de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Para além de juízos ou paixões, Lula está entre as maiores figuras políticas da história brasileira. Único presidente do país com origens operárias, e campo magnético de um partido profundamente original...

Frémeaux & Associés accueille, avec Stéphane Hessel, une expression vivante de sa vocation d'entreprise éditoriale : un auteur, humaniste, citoyen, engagé dans une transmission bienveillante, éthique et esthétique de son expérience d'homme, à l'usage des jeunes générations. L'entretien de Stéphane Hessel, mené par Gilles Vanderpooten pour la préparation de l'ouvrage devenu culte aux Éditions de l'Aube, est un véritable maillon intergénérationnel et s'écoute comme le cadeau de la sagesse à l'urgence de construire les bases nouvelles d'un monde à venir.

Ist die Zukunft unserer Demokratie populistisch? Narrative wie Brandmauern oder "Kampf gegen Rechts" können ihre Wirkung verfehlen und gesellschaftliche Spaltungen beschleunigen statt lindern. Die aktuellen Nervositäten der Gesellschaft und die Auswirkungen auf die Politik, die zu diesem...

The Sceptic Isle provides a bold reassessment of how the British government sold the Second World War to the British public. It powerfully showcases the major credibility gap that cast a long shadow over the British government's efforts to sell the different dimensions of the Second World War to the home front.

A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain's colonial rule and secure Washington's American victory The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, it was waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin shows how the leaders of the American...

Bloomsbury presents Poverty Abolitionists: Faith, Activism, and Hope for Difficult Times by David Beckmann read by Ian Porter The United States and the world have made dramatic progress against poverty in recent decades, but the second Trump administration has thrown progress into reverse. David...

Vieles, was der Politik-Aktivist Arne Semsrott in seinem Bestseller »Machtübernahme« als düsteres Szenario einer rechtskonservativen Wende beschrieben hat, ist bereits bittere Realität – und das ganz ohne AfD-Regierungsbeteiligung. Unter der CDU/SPD-Koalition erleben wir ein hartes Grenzregime, die Herabwürdigung finanziell benachteiligter Menschen, Angriffe auf die demokratische Zivilgesellschaft, ein Ende des Klimaschutzes und eine Politik der Angst.

After Trump: The Republican Party’s Next Chapter The Key to the Post-Trump World Lies in the Life, Thought, and Rise of Vice President JD Vance Who is JD Vance? And why does it matter? Before 2016, JD Vance was virtually unknown. A poor kid from a troubled family in Middletown, Ohio, he was...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ""My good friend, Eric Schmitt, former Attorney General, and now Senator, from the GREAT State of Missouri, has a wonderful new book just out, entitled, The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court. Eric is a FIGHTER, who beat back Biden’s disastrous...

An eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment—and how we can fight back, from the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic. Whether it’s our reality-television-star President or...

“Deeply reported and compellingly told, Kenneth Vogel’s Devils’ Advocates shines a light into the underground world of foreign cash, Washington lobbyists, and the selling of American policy to outsiders. This book hits at the perfect moment, giving invaluable insight into why foreign...

‘Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN ‘Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince millions that a...

In Red, White & Liberal, Alan Colmes addresses a fundamental question: In this time of uncertainty, how can we protect our freedom without diminishing our liberties, while burnishing our rightful place as the world's beacon of democracy? Colmes urges Americans to see past the tactics of the...

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton’s deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election. The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama’s Justice Department worked...

La política de la 4T que dejó a México en ruinas La «Cuarta Transformación» prometió mejorar la vida del pueblo a través de una estricta política de austeridad en el Gobierno; sin embargo, lo que parecía ser una medida positiva, pronto se convirtió en tragedia nacional. A medida que...

From Politico’s National Political Reporter Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s history-defying reelection campaign, illustrating how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to return to the White House. Over the course of the last four years, the American...