Die Aussagen über die Ostdeutschen und darüber, wie weit beide Teile Deutschlands zusammengewachsen sind, könnten nicht widersprüchlicher sein: Während Vertreter der etablierten Parteien und der Leitmedien am Tag der Deutschen Einheit so gut wie alles schön-reden und sich dabei auf die Schulter klopfen, hört man nach jeder Bundestags- und Landtagswahl aus der gleichen Ecke ganz andere Töne: Die Ostdeut-schen werden scharf zurechtgewiesen, weil sie nicht so gewählt haben, wie jene es sich vorgestellt hatten.
Ein packender Lebensbericht einer ehemaligen Wohnungslosen und ein Aufruf zur Unterstützung obdachloser FrauenLinda Rennings, selbst einst obdachlos, kämpft heute für Frauen auf der Straße.
Ein Dialog, der Generationen und Welten umspannt: Nationalsozialismus, DDR, Wiedervereinigung, politisches Engagement, Freundschaft, Verrat, Liebe, Enttäuschung, Literatur, Emanzipation, Geld, Sex und Erfolg.
Nach den Bestsellern »Arm und Reich« und »Kollaps« zeigt der Pulitzer-Preisträger Jared Diamond in seinem neuen und bisher persönlichsten Buch, wie Nationen mit den gegenwärtigen Krisen – Klimawandel, soziale Ungleichheit, gesellschaftliche Polarisierung – erfolgreich umgehen können.
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabitand the insidious ways this realm harms us all.
My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written with the aid of Frederick Douglass, a diffusion of his earlier Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, discussing in extra element his transition from bondage to liberty.
From an impoverished childhood shaped by her parents' addictions to becoming a prize-winning academic, this is the incredible memoir from an inspiring voice, told with devastating candour, humour and warmth.
What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children.
Elaine Halligan's My Child's Different: The lessons learned from one family's struggle to unlock their son's potential explores the enabling role that parents can play in getting the best out of children who are seen as 'different' or 'difficult'.
A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black PrizeDan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death.
Andrew Carnegie (1835 1922) was a mass of contradictions: a radical Chartist who became a rabid capitalist, an idealist who was also a profound cynic, a committed pacifist who also played a crucial role in the opening part of the American Civil War, and a ladies man who had to wait until his fifties (after his domineering mother died) before forming a meaningful relationship with a woman.
»Armut hat System«: Warum wir in Deutschland eine soziale Zeitenwende brauchen – ein Appell der Tafel Deutschland-GeschäftsführerinSirkka Jendis – Geschäftsführerin der Tafel Deutschland – fordert eine soziale Zeitenwende.
The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political views.
The gripping human story of how American volunteers fought famine in Bolshevik Russia, saving Lenin's revolutionary government from chaos and millions of people from starvation.
'A persuasive and highly readable account of how rising inequality, and not just absolute poverty, is undermining our politics, social cohesion, long-term prosperity and general well-being' Barack ObamaInequality makes us feel poor and act poor, even when we're not.
Darren's new book - Trauma Industrial Complex - is out now*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE*'An Orwell for today's poor' - The Times'The standout, authentic voice of a generation' - Herald'McGarvey is a rarity: a working-class writer who has fought to make the middle-class world hear what he has to say' - Nick Cohen, GuardianWhy are the rich getting richer while the poor only get poorer?
'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVERI'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals - or so they say.
