**Winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political WritingA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Slate"A terrific work of history." —Dan Kois, Slate"A vivid, fast-paced narrative." —Andrew Meier, New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.**In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organi...

Die packende Geschichte einer zivilen Aktion, die die Welt veränderte August 1989: Aktivistinnen organisieren ein scheinbar harmloses Picknick an der österreichisch-ungarischen Grenze – direkt am Eisernen Vorhang. Tausende ostdeutsche "Urlauberinnen" warten auf ungarischen Campingplätzen auf ihre Chance zur Flucht, überwacht von Stasi-Agent*innen. Das "Paneuropäische Picknick" wird zum größten Grenzdurchbruch des Kalten Krieges: Hunderte fliehen vom kommunistischen Osten in die ersehnte Fr...

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects of his art that ...

The battle for Avalon was won, but the war for their solar system was just beginning. No one really remembered what exactly happened when the earth split. To most, it was a vague memory or dream. But, to Benji and Moira, it was still a nightmare. They were the only ones who remembered every detail. Now, a strange mystery has fallen on their shoulders, one which sends them all over the world searching for answers. With the help of a dragon, goddess, and a mysterious magical force, the two m...

Bodily awareness is one of the most interesting and enigmatic forms of experience. Our earliest and most pervasive form of conscious experience, it also arguably remains the most private. Bodily awareness has also long played a central role in the study of the mind and self-consciousness, and is fundamental to much current philosophical and psychological research.The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness is an outstanding reference source to this fascinating subject. Comp...

How the “invisible hand” of the nervous system makes the human hand such an evolutionary success.The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible part of the brain.” It is the invisible that concerns Matthew Longo in The Invisible Hand, a wide-ranging, deftly written account of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that have made a seemingly ordinary physica...

Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within poli...