Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in North Korea to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un era
En guide til græsk kultur og etikette
Samling af artikler fra The New Yorker i 1960érne og 1970érne, der tilsammen giver et billede af samfundsforhold og kulturmønstre i USA
A new economic history of colonial India
Bogen handler om Syriens nyere historie og giver en forklaring på, hvordan det er lykkedes al-Assad familien siden 1970 at fastholde den totale magt over Syrien og kontrollere landtes mange klaner og stammefolk. Hafez al-Assad syrisk officer og politiker var medlem af Baathparti…
Multiculturalism: a very short introduction
Has multiculturalism failed? Is it time to move on? What is the alternative? Ali Rattansi explores the issues, from national identity and social cohesion to cultural fragmentation and 'political correctness'. Providing a balanced assessment of the truth and falsity of the charge…
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,500 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bom…
An actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide
Efter at have deltaget i 1. verdenskrig rejser lægen Barbadu til Afrika for at kæmpe mod fattigdommen og elendigheden. Det er barske og fortvivlede forhold han opsøger, også da han kommer til Amerika og hjem til Frankrig
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'wh…
For most of US history, the police have used violence against African Americans with impunity - but after the murder of unarmed teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, mass protests erupted to challenge that impunity. In the process, a new generation of Black activists has co…
