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NON FICTION >> Politics · Current Affairs
Steve Crawshaw & John Jackson:
SMALL ACTS OF RESISTANCE
Sterling · New York, 2010 · 272 pp · with b/w photos throughout
Sold to France
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
In a world of Goliaths, we need stories of Davids to sustain us. With its gutsy, creative, and rousing tales of ordinary people creating extraordinary change, Small Acts of Resistance proves that it is possible.
SAID:
DAS NIEMANDSLAND IST UNSERES · West-östliche Betrachtungen
Diederichs · München, 2010 · 112 pp
OUR HOME IS THE NO-MAN'S LAND · East-Western Reflections
Poet and essayist SAID bridges the gap between Orient and Occident as he engages both perspectives in a discussion about common roots, famous frontier-crossers between the two worlds, and possible paths towards a respectful rapprochement.
Wilfried Bommert:
KEIN BROT FÜR DIE WELT · Die Zukunft der Ernährung
Riemann · München, 2009 · 352 pp
NO BREAD FOR THE WORLD · The future of feeding the world
Sold to Sweden and Korea
Will hunger return to the world?in view of all the shelves filled to bursting point in our supermarkets it hardly seems possible, but the times of sure food for everyone are drawing to a close.
Rebiya Kadeer (with Alexandra Cavelius):
DIE HIMMELSSTÜRMERIN
Heyne · München, 2007 · 416 pp | 16 pp of illustrations
THE STORMER OF THE SKY · China's Public Enemy Number One Tells Her Story
Sold to: US/UK (Kales Press), France (Editions de l’Archipel), Korea (Yeuleumsa), Italy (Corbaccio), Sweden (Narin), Turkey (Pegasus), Korea and Japan (Kodansha).
Rebiya Kadeer, China’s most well-known dissident, was at one time the richest and most powerful woman of the People’s Republic.
Kai Uwe Schlüter:
GÜNTER GRASS IM VISIER · DIE STASI-AKTE
Ch. Links · Berlin, 2010 · 300 pp
GÜNTER GRASS IN THE CROSS HAIRS · THE STASI FILES
Sold to Italy
How the East German secret police spied on Germany‘s best-known post-war writer.
Frank Schirmacher:
PAYBACK
Blessing · München, 2009 · 240 pp
Why the information age makes us do things we don't want to do; and how we can win back control of our thoughts. What was I going to do? Why don't things come to an end any more? What is happening to my brain?
Humphrey Hawksley:
DEMOCRACY KILLS: What's So Good About Having the Vote?
MacMillan · London, 2009 · 356 pp
A compelling and thought-provoking examination of the dangers of democracy
