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Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, written in 1960, has become a how-to manual for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a guidebook on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for the revolutionary movement. Fascinating to admirers and adversaries alike, he captured the minds of millions with his leadership and his belief in guerrilla warfare as the only effective agent to achieve political change.

Rechtsextremismus, Rockerclub und Rotlichtmilieu: Das sind die Stationen im früheren Leben von Philip Schlaffer. Erschütternd und aufklärend berichtet er aus seinem vergangenen Leben im Zeichen von rechter Gewalt, Hass und Kriminalität. Es ist der hochbrisante Insider-Bericht eines Aussteigers, der nichts beschönigt und so eindrucksvoll vor den Gefahren des Rechtsextremismus warnt. Schließlich wird der Fahndungsdruck zu groß, und Schlaffer schafft im Gefängnis den Ausstieg aus Kriminalität und Extremismus.

ഇത് ഒരു നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ വെളിച്ചം. കലാപകലുഷിതകാലത്തെ ലാവണ്യമന്ത്രം. മനുഷ്യരാശിയുടെ സനാതന വിമോചനമാർഗ്ഗം. സത്യവുംനീതിയും ധർമ്മവും ശാന്തിയും അഹിംസയും സമവായവും സഹിഷ്ണുതയും മോഹൻദാസ് കരംചന്ദ് ഗാന്ധി എന്ന ഈ മഹാത്മാവിൽ സന്ധിക്കുന്നു. ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ ഈ കെടാവിളക്ക് കോടാനുകോടികൾക്ക് ആശയും ആവേശവുമായിരുന്നു.

“A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender member of Congress in U.S. history “The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in...

समाजबदलाची आशा मनात बाळगलेला एक तरुण सोळाव्या वर्षी देशकार्याचं स्वप्न बघतो, त्यानंतर उभा आडवा भारत पिंजून काढतो, मदतकार्य, युवकांची शिबिरं, सामाजिक उपक्रम अशा नाना उचापती काय करतो..या उचापती करताना, थोडक्यात लष्कराच्या भाकऱ्या भाजताना या तरुणाला दशकभराच्या फिरस्तीच्या काळात गवसलेला भारत म्हणजे अस्वस्थ दशकाची डायरी!

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell survivor Sarah Ransome shares the shocking inside story of her time trapped in the horrific sex trafficking ring. How could Jeffrey and Ghislaine operate a rape pyramid scheme for twenty-plus years, all as the powerful leaders they hobnobbed with didn’t...

While working for the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard had unbridled access to the crème de la crème of the global elite. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard spent four years gathering extraordinarily honest testimony from the horse's mouth on how the global economic system works away from the convenient myths. It left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of American racketeers....

Since September 11, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet, public debate about the faith is polarized. One camp praises "the religion of peace", while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed believes both sides are dangerously wrong. In Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam, Yasmine speaks her truth as a woman born in the Western world yet raised in a fundamentalist Islamic home. Despite being a first-generation Canadian, she never felt at home in the West.

राजा राममोहन राय भारतीय पुनर्जागरण के अग्रदूत और आधुनिक भारत में सामाजिक समरसता के जनक थे। वे ब्राह्म समाज के संस्थापक, भारतीय भाषाई प्रेस के प्रवर्तक, जन-जागरण और सामाजिक सुधार आंदोलन के प्रणेता तथा बंगाल में नवजागरण युग के पितामह थे। उन्होंने भारत में स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन और पत्रकारिता के कुशल संयोग से दोनों क्षेत्रों को गति प्रदान की। हिंदी के प्रति उनका अगाध समर्पण था। वे रूढ़िवाद और कुरीतियों के विरोधी थे; लेकिन संस्कार, परंपरा और राष्‍ट्र-गौरव उनकी थाती थे।

द्रविड़ आन्दोलन के जनक रामासामी पेरियार उन्नीसवीं सदी की परिवर्तनकामी बौद्धिक चेतना के सबसे प्रखर प्रतीकों में से हैं जिन्होंने तमिलनाडु ही नहीं बल्कि पूरे भारत के सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक-राजनैतिक परिवेश को गहरे प्रभावित किया। फुले-पेरियार-अम्बेडकर की यह धारा भारतीय समाज में व्याप्त वर्ण आधारित भेदभाव के ख़िलाफ दलितों-वंचितों के महान संघर्ष की प्रेरक धारा है।

When a powerful mystic steps on the hand of a radical young hippie doctor from Detroit, it changes lives and the world. Sometimes Brilliant is the adventures of a philosopher, mystic, hippie, doctor, groundbreaking tech innovator, and key player in the eradication of one of the worst pandemics...

This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence...

TrafficKing uncovers a child sex trafficking case of epic proportions and the longest-running human trafficking case in US legal history - more poignant than the Lewinsky case, Watergate scandal, and Profumo affair combined. Eleven years after the registered level-3 sex offender was arrested, four cases associated with his 2005 criminal investigation remain open. The pedophile was not prosecuted under The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), a law enacted in Florida in 2000. In this gripping exposé, Sarnoff finds out why.

"An instant classic." —Arianna Huffington "Will inspire people from across the political spectrum." —Jonathan Haidt An essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this world, from Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater...

In 2010, just as the Indian government was stepping up its counterinsurgency operations in the country's Naxal-affected areas, Alpa Shah set out on a seven-night march with a guerrilla platoon across 250 kilometres of the same territory. An anthropology professor, she wanted to understand why, against the backdrop of a shiny new India, the country's poor had shunned the world's largest democracy and united with revolutionary ideologues.

*GRAMMY WINNER* *National Bestseller* *Nominated for an Audie for Best Business/Personal Development Audiobook* A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his remarkable life...

Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments. Barres recounts his early life and felt even as a very young child that he was assigned the wrong gender. After years of being acutely uncomfortable in his own skin, Barres transitioned from female to male. It was after transitioning that he realized how differently male and female scientists are treated.

Wanda Sykes, LeVar Burton, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Gabourey Sidibe head a cast of beloved actors performing 23 selections from the speeches, sermons, and essays of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—many never recorded during his lifetime. For the first time, teachers, students, and thoughtful listeners can hear dramatic interpretations of Dr. King’s words, chosen and introduced by Cornel West.

One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner good-bye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly 7,000 miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just 16. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone.

Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her.