Drinking the sea at Gaza: days and nights in a land under siege
by Hass, Amira
fromOwl book
En jødisk-israelsk journalist indfanger stemninger, hændelser og politiske rørelser blandt palæstinensiske beboere i Gaza-striben og beskriver et hjørne af den arabisk-israelske konflikt.
Texas women broke barriers throughout the twentieth century, winning the right to vote, expanding their access to higher education, entering new professions, participating fully in civic and political life and planning their families. Yet these major achievements have hardly bee…
Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cultural artifacts. It has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination - a unive…
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. forei…
Bogen beskriver stigmatiseringen af psykisk syge og lægger op til en diskussion omkring problemet.
An account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin - and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills. …
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The story of how, in the space of seven or eight years in the early nineteenth century, the interior of a large Scottish county was forcibly depopulated, turning thousands of people out of their homes, which were then destroyed. It was planned and carried through by a small grou…
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A former Internet entrepreneur discusses the negative effects the Internet has on human psychology, the economy, and culture and shows how big data companies are trying to monetize every normal human function
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