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OPERATION PEDRO PAN
THE EXODUS OF CUBAN CHILDREN
2023 || Paperback || JOSEFINA LEYVA || Monbeaulivre.fr
Operation Pedro Pan opened the door to the United States for more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied Cuban children. How did this come to be called Operation Pedro Pan? It was important from the very beginning that we in Miami avoided anything that could jeopardize the exodus, or the people in Cuba who worked to make it possible. We were never under the illusion that the Cuban government was unaware of what we were doing, nor that any publicity could easily have been used as propaganda to p...
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COMBATING CRISES FROM BELOW
Social responses to polycrisis in Europe and the United Kingdom
2023 || Paperback || Kai Heidemann || Maastricht University Press
How can the convergence of multiple cascading crises create a broader disruptive reality of ‘polycrisis’ in society? How do specific social groups and communities develop purposeful responses to the distinctive forms of insecurity and suffering generated by an enduring polycrisis? Through an exploration of multiple types of crises in a variety of geographical settings in Europe and the United Kingdom, the chapters compiled in this book offer fresh insight into how particular groups of pe...
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Embracing Diversity and Empowering Lives
Celebrating the Transgender Community
2023 || Paperback || Paul Woldhek || Paul Woldhek
In a world that is increasingly recognizing the importance of inclusivity and acceptance, this extraordinary book takes you by the hand and invites you to celebrate the vibrant and resilient transgender community. With profound stories, insightful interviews, and thought-provoking discussions, this book aims to uplift and empower not only the transgender community but all readers who wish to embrace diversity and make a positive change in the world.
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Dimensions of Experience
2023 || Paperback || Yoginâm || Nâm Publishing
Life urges us to find answers on many different levels, regarding the world, regarding ourselves and mainly regarding the reason of our existence. Our answers are often biased, dictated by custom and tradition, also when they are considered as ‘religion’ and ‘science’. Author Yoginâm went with this book on a phenomenological quest of what it means that we are what we are, seeing the world the way we see it. He found in Siweb an approach that is so simple, so logical, and so easy to u...
Regenesis (Heruitgave)
feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
2023 || Paperback || George Monbiot || Penguin Books UK
For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselve...
Security Studies / 4th edition
An Introduction
2023 || Paperback || Paul D Williams e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda. This new edition has been completely revised and updated, to cover major developments such as COVID-19, the rise of populism, climate change, China and Russias place in the world, and the Trump administra...
Terrorism and Counterterrorism / 7th edition
2023 || Paperback || Brigitte L. Nacos || Taylor & Francis
Focusing on the continued terrorist threat by jihadist groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, and homegrown violent far-right and far-left extremists in the West, Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in a historical and contemporary context. In this comprehensive and highly readable text, renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism’s diverse causes, actors, and strategies; outlines anti- and counterterrorist responses; and highlights terrorism...
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Freezing Order
Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder - A True Story
2023 || Paperback || Bill Browder || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A true-life thriller, as Putin's most-feared adversary risks it all to hunt down the source of the Russian president's vast wealth
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Landlines (Heruitgave)
2023 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Penguin Books UK
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE
Pre-order the latest memoir from global bestselling author Raynor Winn
Unflinching... There is a luminous conviction to the prose - Observer
Heartening and comforting... The nature writing is beautiful and it is a thrill to read. You feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it - The Times
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . .
Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's he...