The world’s ocean is in an urgent state of decline—here’s what we do to protect it.
The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures. But as we exhaust the resources on land, its reserves are increasingly dredged and extracted to fuel new industry. Today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean economy.
Chris Armstrong reveals how existing governing institutions are failing to respond to the most pressing problems of our time. From the fate of people whose lands will be submerged as sea levels rise, to the exploitation of people working in fishing, to the rights of marine animals, Armstrong examines the current crises and makes the case for a powerful World Ocean Authority capable of tackling them.
A Blue New Deal presents a radical manifesto for putting equality, democracy, and sustainability at the heart of ocean politics.
The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.
‘A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the moral case for asylum.’ David Lammy MP
North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded.
Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship.
By the age of 29 she had already witnessed a lifetime of suffering. Family members had died of starvation; her brother was beaten nearly to death by soldiers. Even smiling and laughing was discouraged.
The first time she ran, she was forced abandon her father on his deathbed – crossing the border under a hail of bullets. In China she was sold to a farmer, with whom she had a son, before being denounced and forcibly returned to North Korea.
Six months later guards abandoned her, injured, outside a prison camp. She recovered and returned China to seek her son, now six, before attempting to navigate the long, hard road through the Gobi Desert and into Mongolia.
Clear-eyed and resolute, Jihyun’s extraordinary story reveals a Korea far removed from the talk of nuclear weapons and economic sanctions. She remains sanguine despite the hardship. Recalling life’s tiny pleasures even at her darkest moments, she manages to instill her tale with incredible grace and humanity.
Beautifully written with South Korean compatriot Seh-lynn Chai, this compelling book offers a stark lesson in determination, and ultimately in the importance of asylum.
The astounding true story of the ordeal and escape of the British frigate Amethyst from Chinese Communist batteries in the Yangtze River in April 1949.
In the early morning of 20th April 1949, HMS Amethyst was fulfilling orders to travel to Nanking to stand guard for the British Embassy during the height of the Chinese Civil War when she was fired upon by guns from the riverbank.
Shells pounded into the ship, killing the commanding officer and destroyed the bridge before the ship grounded on the bank.
How did the Amethyst escape the battering of Chinese Communist guns?
C. E. Lucas Phillips's Escape of the Amethyst was written with the full assistance of Commander J. S. Kerans, DSO RN, who took over control of the Amethyst, and utilizes a wealth of Admiralty records, much of which was previously classified as Secret, to provide a vivid account of this extraordinary moment in the history of the Royal Navy.
In the early 1920s, Americans owned eighty percent of the world's automobiles and consumed seventy-five percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the US flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation's explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic.
Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America's rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America-on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war.
A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.
From the cofounder of Fight for a Better America, the non-profit organization dedicated to voter engagement and local grassroots organizing, is a searing, unflinching, and thorough exploration of the Republican Party’s dissolution of government.
“Only when enough of us recognize that the Republicans are waging a war on our democracy will we be able to rally a resistance, fight back, and reclaim our government,” writes author Bill Kuhn in this engrossing and outraged study of the GOP’s commitment to weaken public institutions and erode the public’s trust in democracy.
Although conflicts over the role of government have always existed, the level of partisanship and division that we know today is staggering. Can the US repair forty years of the Right’s destruction? The answer is yes, says Kuhn, but only if voters understand the Republican Party’s role in the country’s growing division.
Written in brilliant and easily digestible chapters, you will discover how Trump became the logical consequence of decades worth of corruption, fear-mongering, and destructive policies. Kuhn uncovers the blatantly racist style of politics inherent in the GOP from Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Movement to Reagan’s aversion to public welfare. Each chapter is poignant and a well-researched entry contributing to the national conversation and debate of how we got to where we are today.
Facts & Fury is a revelatory work of scholarship and a laceration of the Republican Party that will energize the country and encourage discussion. Much more, it is a call to arms to halt the GOP’s efforts, engage our neighbors, and ultimately strengthen American democracy.
Immer mehr junge Menschen wollen sich für politische, soziale und ökologische Ziele einsetzen. Raul Krauthausen und Benjamin Schwarz ermutigen durch Gespräche mit erfolgreichen Aktivist*innen und inspirieren zu eigenem Engagement. Lange galt Aktivismus eher als Synonym für krawalligen Protest denn als ernsthafte politische Arbeit. Indem Krauthausen und Schwarz den Begriff des konstruktiven Aktivismus in die Debatte einführen, schaffen sie ein neues Verständnis: Konstruktiver Aktivismus ist ein leidenschaftliches politisches Instrument, das nichts mit schwarzen Blöcken aller Couleur zu tun hat, sondern radikal und konsequent für die konkrete Veränderung aktueller Umstände kämpft. Aber wie schafft man es, wirklich etwas zu bewegen? Welche Aktionen, welches Engagement kann tatsächlich Veränderungen herbeiführen? Dafür gibt es viele gute Beispiele und darum bilden die Gespräche mit konstruktiven Aktivist*innen ein Zentrum des Buches: Luisa Neubauer (Fridays for Future), Carola Rackete (Seenotretterin), Gerhard Schick (Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende) u.v.a. berichten von ihrer Arbeit, ihren Erfahrungen, auch ihren Ängsten und Niederlagen, vor allem aber darüber, warum Aktivismus eine Bereicherung ist - für die Gesellschaft und für das eigene Leben.Die Buchausgabe zu 'Wie kann ich was bewegen?' ist erschienen in der Edition Körber, Hamburg 2021-
'தேசமெங்கும் எத்தனையோ பல மதக்கலவரங்களின் பின்னணியில் ஆர்.எஸ்.எஸ்ஸின் பெயர் தொடர்ந்து அடிபட்டு வந்திருக்கிறது. அப்பழுக்கற்ற தேசியவாத இயக்கம் என்று அதன் ஆதரவாளர்களும், சந்தேகமில்லாமல் மதவாத இயக்கம் என்று எதிர்ப்பாளர்களும் தொடர்ந்து கூறி வந்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
Ciudad feminista es un experimento continuo para vivir de manera diferente, vivir mejor y vivir de manera más justa en un mundo urbano.
Vivimos en la ciudad de los hombres. Nuestros espacios públicos no están diseñados para cuerpos femeninos. Hay poca consideración por las mujeres como madres, trabajadoras o cuidadoras. Las calles urbanas suelen ser un lugar de amenazas más que de comunidad. La gentrificación ha dificultado aún más la vida cotidiana de las mujeres. ¿Cómo sería una metrópoli para mujeres trabajadoras? Una ciudad de amistades más allá de Sex and the City. Un sistema de tránsito que acomode a las madres con cochecitos en el recorrido hacia la escuela. Un espacio público con suficientes baños. Un lugar donde las mujeres puedan caminar sin acoso.
En Ciudad feminista, a través de la historia, la experiencia personal y la cultura popular, Leslie Kern expone lo que está oculto a simple vista: las desigualdades sociales construidas en nuestras ciudades, hogares y vecindarios. Kern ofrece una visión alternativa de la ciudad feminista. Asumiendo el miedo, la maternidad, la amistad, el activismo y las alegrías y peligros de estar sola, Kern traza un mapa de la ciudad desde nuevos puntos de vista, presenta un enfoque feminista interseccional de las historias urbanas y propone que la ciudad es quizás también nuestra mejor esperanza para dar forma a un nuevo futuro urbano. Es hora de desmantelar lo que damos por sentado sobre las ciudades y de preguntarnos cómo podemos construir juntas ciudades más justas, sostenibles y favorables a las mujeres.
Noch immer von allen Studenten des wirtschaftlichen Managements zu lesen: Clausewitzens Klassiker über die Kriegsführung. Insbesondere das erste Kapitel beinhaltet die zentralen Thesen, nach denen beispielsweise der Krieg lediglich die 'Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln' sei.
In den Jahren 1915 - 1917 hielt Sigmund Freud eine Vorlesungsreihe mit dem Namen 'Einführung in die Psychoanalyse' - der Grundstein dieser Disziplin schlechthin. Hier vorliegend sind die Vorlesungen I - IV über die Fehlleistungen.
In den Jahren 1915 - 1917 hielt Sigmund Freud eine Vorlesungsreihe mit dem Namen 'Einführung in die Psychoanalyse' - der Grundstein dieser Disziplin schlechthin. Hier vorliegend sind die Vorlesungen XVI - XXVIII mit der Allgemeinen Neurosenlehre, mit den Themen: Der Sinn der Symptome, Die Fixierung an das Trauma, Widerstand und Verdrängung, Das menschliche Sexualleben, Libidoentwicklung und Sexualorganisation, Gesichtspunkte der Entwicklung und Regression, Wege der Symptombildung, Die gemeine Nervosität, Die Angst, Die Libidotheorie, Die Übertragung, Die analytische Theorie.
La democracia es un concepto de alto valor reconocido universalmente, tal vez uno de los más importantes de la modernidad occidental. Sin embargo, la democracia realmente existente es también un sistema de demarcación, exclusión social y delimitación ecológica. Siempre ha dejado algunos intereses individuales fuera de su alcance. Así, a la vez que exige mayor participación en el proceso de la toma de decisiones, excluye a colectivos enteros que luego reclaman más participación.
Esta «dialéctica de la democracia» causa conflictos constantes e inherentes a ella. De ahí que sea necesario hacer participar al demos de forma equitativa no solo en el proceso político, sino también en los procesos económico y social. Y el neoliberalismo es el principal interesado en impedir que esto suceda.
