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Schon als Teenager wusste Fern Brady, dass sie anders war. Als sie zufällig über Autismus las, wusste sie instinktiv, warum. Hier war die Erklärung für ihre Wahrnehmungsstörungen, ihre Meltdowns, ihre Unfähigkeit, soziale Signale zu deuten. Doch erst mit 34 folgte endlich die befreiende Diagnose. In dieser schonungslos ehrlichen ....

A summary of my book:1. I'm diagnosed with autism20 years after telling the doctor I had it.2. My terrible Catholic childhood.3. My friendship with an elderly man who runs the corner shop and is definitely not trying to groom me.4. Homelessness.5. Stripping.6. More stripping but with more nervous breakdowns.7. I hate ....

Audrey Lorde was a survivor: of childhood disability injustice, of her best friend's suicide, of the atomic age. She was a college activist against nuclear arms. A mother who knew that poetry could help her children survive a racist world. And, ultimately, a cancer survivor, who understood that the war going on within her cells was ....

Die Begegnung mit dem Fremden – eine Begegnung mit dem Fremden in sich selbst Fünf Männer in der Mitte ihres Lebens: Die verurteilten ehemaligen Terroristen Muhammad, Suleiman und Jamil aus den besetzten Gebieten sowie die Israelis Chen und Amil, die den Dienst an der Waffe verweigert haben. Männer, die im Gefängnis saßen und, nachdem sie ....

Das Tagebuch von Anne Frank ist Symbol und Dokument zugleich. Symbol für den Völkermord an den Juden durch die Nazi-Verbrecher und Dokument der Lebenswelt einer einzigartig begabten jungen Schriftstellerin.Die vorliegende Ausgabe ist die einzige vom Anne Frank Fonds in Basel autorisierte Fassung des Tagebuchs, von dem es eine erste und ....

D’Ora, mit bürgerlichem Namen Dora Kallmus, war eine Fotografin von internationalem Rang mit Ateliers in Wien und später in Paris, wo sich Persönlichkeiten von Gustav Klimt bis zum Kaiserhaus, Josephine Baker bis Pablo Picasso porträtieren ließen. 1940, nach der Okkupation Frankreichs, verlor sie ihren Besitz. Ihre geliebte Schwester ....

Deeply personal, astutely observed, sometimes devastating but frequently hysterically funny.The memoir from Australia's much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where it went on to achieve critical acclaim. ....

This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai wrote in 1926 has been published. "For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of her personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as ....

Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya’s win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and ....

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks is a political biography of Parks, examining her 6 decades of activism and challenging passive perceptions of her contributions in the civil rights movement.Including a new introduction titled “Nine Ways to Be Like Rosa Parks in the Age of Black Lives Matter,” public historian Jeanne ....

In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange, intimate experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived chronic coughing spell – something the medical establishment will later use against her, as she struggles through chronic pain and fainting spells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden ....

Meara O'Hara grew up under the constant glare of a violent and charismatic cult leader as she drifted between Germany, Switzerland and Austria. This is her story. It is a true story.Years later, while travelling through the USA, she is revisited by the persistent and sinister shadow of a man who would manipulate those around him to his ....