One of the music world's most iconic artists writes about his remarkable life for the first time, from his early days growing up in Dublin, to U2's meteoric rise to fame, to his more than twenty years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.

Offers an up-close and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.

Offers an illustrated introduction to the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that explores the ways that the society in which she grew up was unfair toward women, Jews, and other groups, and how she spent her life working to fight that unfairness.

For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were two ordinary young blacks in their mid-twenties. They were a part of the younger generation, and they were tired of the status quo. Receiving an assignment from God, they were obedient and helped changed the course of American civil rights. Our story spans across time, from the historic Rosa Parks arrest on December 1, 1955, to the prolific "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech on April 1968. In...

The summary of this book is present in the title, Nonviolence or Nonexistence. I grew up knowing closely the violence of my father. He was violent with me and also with my stepmother (after my mother's early death). As a boy, I thought this was the life for men. I was living a lie. But I soon learned about nonviolence from Martin Luther King and, with much more detail, from Mohandas Gandhi of India. Later, I read the works of Gene Sharp of Harvard,...

Stephanie Stock was an average typical high school senior in 2018, living and dreaming of a marvelous life. Everything seemed to be perfect until one day, Venom entered her life and began to take her down piece by piece. Everything changed. Nothing seemed real. OCD and anxiety had taken over her life, and there seemed to be no hope or redemption. After believing that the problem was herself and avoiding accepting the reality of mental illness, she...

El hombre que luchó por una causa. Si eres afroamericano, si participaste en el movimiento por los derechos civiles o si solo deseas conocer más sobre esta figura histórica, carismática a la vez que enigmática, siente la nostalgia de recordar a Malcolm X. La razón es simple: este es un libro informativo, comprensivo y entretenido sobre la vida de un hombre que vivió sin miedo, un líder del movimiento por los derechos civiles que lucho...

Cuando un niño de cinco años debió trasladarse de Quito, capital ecuatoriana, a la hacienda Caldera en el Valle del Chota, sin querer ingresaba a la Universidad de la Vida; comprendió a su tierna edad que a partir de aquí su vida se vio envuelta en una apasionante e insólita historia. El tímido campesino se volverá un luchador incansable, un potencial líder en su accionar diario, inolvidable y solidario y sobre todo radical en la lucha por...

Apartheid isn't over-so Malaika Wa Azania boldly argues in Memoirs of a Born Free, her account of growing up black in modern-day South Africa. Malaika was born in late 1991, as the white minority government was on its way out, making her a "Born Free"-the name given to the generation born after the end of apartheid. But Malaika's experience with institutionalized racism offers a view of South Africa that contradicts the implied racial liberation of...