oneworld publications sep 2020 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATUREOne quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction.A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice falls from the sky. A woman wins the jackpot twice. A man is struck by lightning four times. Coincidence Or something more Things That Fall from the Sky is the tale of three lives that are changed forever by random events. But it is also a meditation on the endurance of love, the passage of time and the pain of loss. Selja Ahava, one of Finland's best-loved novelists, weaves these stories together in an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind fable about the twists and turns that can define a lifetime.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Graham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back.All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an unwitting public. After years of soundbites about connecting people, the social media giants are only just beginning to admit to the scale of the problem.We stand on the precipice of an era where switching your mobile platform will have more impact on your life than switching your government. Where freedom and privacy are seen as incompatible with social well-being and transparency. Where your attention is sold to the highest bidder.Our laws don't cover what is happening and our politicians don't understand it. But if we don't fight to change the system now, we may not get another chance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them'A riveting, gossipy, action-packed, seam-bursting blast through 100 years of (mainly) European history. Impressively wide-ranging in scope and unflaggingly fascinating.' FINANCIAL TIMESMarx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth.These visionaries all have something in common - their Jewish origins and a gift for thinking outside the box.In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do we give a damn about strangers Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it.It turns out that, over the last 12,000 years, we have become more and more altruistic. This is despite the fact that, the majority of the time, our minds are still breathtakingly indifferent to the welfare of others. In solving the enigma of generosity in a world of strangers, McCullough takes us on a sweeping history of society and science to warn that, if we are not careful, our instincts and sympathies have as much potential for harm as for good. The bad news is that we are not designed to be kind. The good news is that we can push ourselves to be kind anyway, together.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How have these places achieved such remarkable outcomes And how can weapply those lessons to our own communities.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In July 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to bring an end to the brutal eight-year war with Iraq. Over the next two months, under the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini, political prisoners around the country were secretly brought before a tribunal panel that would later become known as the Death Commission. They were not told what was happening and did not know that one 'wrong' answer concerning their faith or political affiliation would send them straight to the gallows. Thousands of men and women were condemned to death, many buried in mass graves in Khavaran Cemetery in the vicinity of Tehran. Through eyewitness accounts of survivors, research by scholars and memories of children and spouses of the deceased, Voices of a Massacre reconstructs the events of that bloody summer. Over thirty years later, the Iranian government has still not officially acknowledged that they ever took place.