Títulos en Culturales y regionales

In an era of stark racial injustice and decisive action, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to the struggle for change, founding the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968 at age 19. Through his eyes, we see the courage of a generation that stood up to injustice, their political triumphs and tragedies, and the unforgettable legacy of Black Power.

Anna Ancher, der var en af Skagensmalerne, regnes som en af den danske malerkunsts helt store personer og var en af de dygtigste impressionistiske malere herhjemme. Især hendes skildringer af kvindernes verden vakte opsigt. Portrættet af Anna Ancher er en del af en ny serie med korte, velresearchede og velfortalte portrætter af kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender, og der udkommer foreløbig 12 bøger i serien. Du kan udover Anna Ancher allerede nu også læse om Tove Ditlevsen, Karen Blixen, Liva Weel, Niels Bohr, Kaj Munk, Knud Rasmussen, Asta Nielsen og Jørn Utzon.

Asta Nielsen var en af stumfilmens største stjerner og regnes for det første danske sexsymbol. Hendes film blev set i både Danmark, Tyskland og USA, og nogle kalder hende den første internationale filmstjerne. Portrættet af Asta Nielsen er en del af en ny serie med korte, velresearchede og velfortalte portrætter af kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender, og der udkommer foreløbig 12 bøger i serien. Du kan allerede nu også læse om Tove Ditlevsen, Karen Blixen, Liva Weel, Anna Ancher, Niels Bohr, Kaj Munk, Knud Rasmussen og Jørn Utzon.

Karen Blixen er en af de mest markante personligheder i dansk litteratur- og kulturhistorie. Både hendes bøger og fortællinger og hendes egen livshistorie vakte opsigt verden over og gjorde hende til en feteret stjerne på sin tid. Hun skrev bl.a. Den afrikanske farm og Babettes gæstebud. Biografien om Karen Blixen er en del af en ny serie med korte biografier om kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender. Anne-Sofie Strom Wesche (f.1973), er uddannet journalist fra Syddansk Universitet. Hun har skrevet biografier om bl.a. Helle Virkner, Poul Reichhardt og Kirsten Walther.

Liva Weel er en af de største kvindelige revy- og filmstjerner, Danmark nogensinde har haft. Hun optårdte i et hav af revyer og film i 1920erne, 1930erne og 1940erne og var bl.a. kendt for sine fremførelser af PHs viser. Biografien om Liva Weel er en del af en ny serie med korte biografier om kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender. Anne-Sofie Storm Wesche, født 1973, er uddannet journalist fra Syddansk Universitet. Hun har tidligere skrevet biografier om bl.a. Helle Virkner, Poul Reichhardt og Kirsten Walther.

Knud Rasmussen var Danmarks mest berømte polarforsker og eventyrer. Han, der var halvt grønlænder, rejste på adskillige ekspeditioner til Grønland og andre arktiske egne, bl.a. p den opsigtsvækkende 5. Thule-ekspedition fra Grønland og helt til Sibiriens kyst, hvor han på enestående vis kortlagde inuitternes udvikling og kultur. Biografien om Knud Rasmussen er en del af en ny serie med korte biografier om kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender. Danske legender er en serie med korte biografier om kendte danskere.

Digterpræsten og dramatikeren Kaj Munk var en ledende figur i modstanden mod den tyske besættelsesmagt i Danmark under Anden Verdenskrig. Hans digte og prædikener vagte stor opsigt og fik til sidst Gestapo til at likvidere ham i januar 1944. Portrættet af Kaj Munk er en del af en ny serie med korte, velresearchede og velfortalte portrætter af kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender, og der udkommer foreløbig 12 bøger i serien i 2018 og 2019. Du kan allerede nu også læse om Tove Ditlevsen og Niels Bohr. Brian Dan Christensen (f. 1970) er skribent, oversætter og forfatter.

Tove Ditlevsen var en af de mest markante, litterære personligheder i Danmark i det 20. århundrede. Hun skrev ærligt og modigt om personlige udfordringer og den moderne kvindes stilling i samfundet. Portrættet af Tove Ditlevsen er en del af en ny serie med korte, velresearchede og velfortalte portrætter af kendte danskere. Serien har fået titlen Danske legender, og der udkommer foreløbig 12 bøger i serien i 2018 og 2019. Du kan allerede nu også læse om Niels Bohr og Kaj Munk. Anne-Sofie Storm Wesche, født 1973, er uddannet journalist fra Syddansk Universitet.

1968 reist der Autor Franz Fühmann von Ost-Berlin nach Budapest. Hinter ihm liegen die Überwindung seiner Alkoholsucht und die Desillusionierung durch den Einmarsch der Truppen des Warschauer Paktes in Prag. Schreibend beginnt er, sein Handeln innerhalb der sozialistischen Gesellschaft, in der er lebt, zu reflektieren, und er schafft es, die Krise als Ausgangspunkt für einen Neuanfang zu nutzen.

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.  

In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections that lead him to Studio 54.

Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.

Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first nonfiction book, tells, largely in their own words, the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods, the people, the politics, idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, for Rory, his apprenticeship as a printer.

Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often center around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humor and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In ’Membering, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the ’60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones.

As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself. In his affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US.

In April of 2018, Giorgi Rtskhiladze answered the door of his Connecticut home to find two FBI agents bearing a subpoena waiting for him. Their questions: What was his interaction with Donald Trump, the Trump family, and the Trump Organization? What did he know about Michael Cohen's business dealings? Why was he the person who Cohen had a text conversation with about the possibility of damaging tapes of Donald Trump from Russia?  

Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artist - and made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully, exhaustively. Here, in real-time, is that coverage: a look back at Prince in the '90s. Walsh's newly unearthed interviews, essays, columns, and reviews make Gold Experience an essential slice of history.

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens.

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a Black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his freedom.

From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of the "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.