Ursel Schäfer

11 books

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama

375 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging reflective slow-paced
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

1104 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

542 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang

464 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
A Philosophy of Walking by John Howe, Frédéric Gros, Clifford Harper

A Philosophy of Walking

John Howe, Frédéric Gros, Clifford Harper

228 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy travel challenging reflective slow-paced
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Kristen R. Ghodsee

220 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

Mao: The Unknown Story

Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

801 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark emotional informative slow-paced
Mein Bericht an die Welt: Geschichte eines Staates im Untergrund by Ursel Schäfer, Jan Karski
Mein Bericht an die Welt: Geschichte eines Staates im Untergrund
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Ursel Schäfer, Jan Karski

Mein Bericht an die Welt: Geschichte eines Staates im Untergrund

Ursel Schäfer, Jan Karski

448 pages • first pub 1944 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative sad medium-paced
Ändere die Welt!: Warum wir die kannibalische Weltordnung stürzen müssen by Jean Ziegler

Ändere die Welt!: Warum wir die kannibalische Weltordnung stürzen müssen

Jean Ziegler

288 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction politics medium-paced
Not the Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer by David Servan-Schreiber

Not the Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer

David Servan-Schreiber

176 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir emotional hopeful sad medium-paced