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The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of th...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of th...

An old Chinese proverb says Women hold up half the sky. Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on humanitarian issues, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many women live in profoundly dire circumstancesand some succeed against all odds.

Rachel wünscht sich zu ihrem neunten Geburtstag nur ein wenig Geld: 300 Dollar, damit in armen Gegenden der Welt neue Brunnen gebaut werden können. Als das Geld nicht zusammenkommt, ist sie enttäuscht. Erst als sie wenig später nach einem Autounfall im Koma liegt, lassen sich die Menschen von ihrem großen Herzen bewegen und spenden. Am Ende sind es über eine Million Dollar - genug, um 37.000 Menschen mit sauberem Wasser zu versorgen. Soziale ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in...

Frauen tragen die Hälfte des Himmels" - sagt ein chinesisches Sprichwort. Tatsächlich zeigen die Reportagen der beiden Pulitzer-Preisträger Nicholas D. Kristof und Sheryl WuDunn, dass arme Frauen oftmals die Hölle ertragen müssen. Die häufigsten Menschenrechtsverletzungen unserer Zeit richten sich gegen Mädchen und Frauen. Wir wissen das und sehen uns - leider - außerstande, daran etwas zu ändern. Wirklich? Dieses Buch zeigt: Wirksames Handel...

A call to arms against the most pervasive human rights violation of the 21st century: the oppression of women in the developing world.

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The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work of reportage. 16 pages of photos.

Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world.

Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era-the oppression of women in the developing world-and tell us what we can do about it. An old Chinese proverb says "Women hold up half the sky." Then why do the women of Africa and Asia persistently suffer human rights abuses? Continuing their focus on humanitarian issues, journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many w...

#1 National BestsellerFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an ...