Best Selling Books by Todd Hasak-Lowy

A stirring look at nonviolent activism, from American suffragists to civil rights to the climate change movementWe Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as, what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements as well as people such as Gandhi, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Václav Havel, this book discusses the components of nonviolent resistance. It answers the question “Why nonviolence?” by showing how nonviolent movements have succeeded again and again in a variety of ways, in all sorts of places, and always in the face of overwhelming odds. The book includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

Will Sam’s best friend turn out to be a bully? He’s about to find out in this “strong and refreshingly straightforward” (School Library Journal) MAX novel. Sam Lewis is going to get his butt kicked in exactly thirty-three minutes. He knows this because yesterday his former best friend Morgan Sturtz told him, to his face and with three witnesses nearby, “I am totally going to kick your butt tomorrow at recess.” All that’s standing between Sam and this unfortunate butt-kicking is the last few minutes of social studies and his lunch period. But how did Sam and Morgan end up here? How did this happen just a few months after TAMADE (The Absolutely Most Amazing Day Ever), when they became the greatest Alien Wars video game team in the history of great Alien Wars teams? And once the clock ticks down, will Morgan actually act on his threat? Told with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and achingly real emotional truth, 33 Minutes shows how even the best of friendships can change forever.

Through a series of lists, a narrator reveals how fifteen-year old Darren''s world was rocked by his parents'' divorce just as his brother, Nate, was leaving for college, and a year later when his father comes out as gay, then how he begins to deal with it all after a stolen weekend with Nate and his crush, Zoey.

The emergence of Zionism in the late nineteenth-century and the evolution of Zionist society in Palestine were profoundly influenced by the Hebrew literature of the day. As Todd Hasak-Lowy cogently argues in this book, Hebrew authors wrote with the belief that accurately representing Jewish society—including its history—in their texts would both record the past and establish its future course. Hasak-Lowy traces the tensions between the extraliterary—the historical, social, and political—and the literary—the aesthetic, formal, and stylistic—in Hebrew fiction. Focusing on canonical Hebrew texts by S.Y. Abramovitz,Y. H. Brenner, S.Y. Agnon, and S. Yizhar, the author establishes how their works and the works of other Jewish authors served as the intellectual and political leadership to the not yet fully amalgamated nineteenth-century diaspora.

When the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia in 1941, twelve-year-old Michael and his family are deported from Prague to the Terezin concentration camp, where his mother''s will and ingenuity keep them from being transported to Auschwitz and certain death.

The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago. And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin. The amendment only succeeded because a courageous group of women had been relentlessly demanding the right to vote for more than seventy years. The leaders of the suffrage movement are heroes who were fearless in the face of ridicule, arrest, imprisonment, and even torture. Many of them devoted themselves to the cause knowing they wouldn''t live to cast a ballot. The story of women''s suffrage is epic, frustrating, and as complex as the women who fought for it. Illustrated with portraits, period cartoons, and other images, Roses and Radicals celebrates this captivating yet overlooked piece of American history and the women who made it happen.

從不合作運動、公民不服從，到反氣候變遷運動……， 這些人面對不公不義，選擇捍衛自身權益而抗爭， 他們創造了歷史，也改變了世界， 讓我們知道，原來每一個人都是力量！ 「這是一本振奮人心的非暴力抗爭簡史，內容從美國婦女參政權運動，一路涵蓋到全球規模的反氣候變遷運動。非暴力抗爭可能是二十世紀人類最偉大的發明，比核融合或基因序列更重要，讓我們得以打造一個更美好的二十一世紀。由於這場奮鬥將由青少年領軍，而這本書就是最佳獻禮！」 ──比爾．麥吉本／氣候運動人士＆《衰退：人類的賽局是否已經走向耗竭》（Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?）作者 什麼是非暴力抗爭？ 在不使用武力的前提下，運用破壞性、高風險的策略挑戰權力，打斷正常的社會運作模式。 本書介紹六個舉足輕重、影響全球的抗爭故事，這些故事都有一個共通點，那就是──非暴力運動人士選擇對抗不公不義，拯救遭受壓迫的受害者。 或許你會以為信守非暴力信條的抗爭者厭惡衝突，但事實正好相反。非暴力運動人士是勇於挑戰對手的鬥士，只不過他們發動的戰爭與戰場上的看起來很不一樣…… ▶ 莫罕達斯．卡拉姆昌德．甘地（Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi）──發起印度獨立運動 ▶ 愛麗斯．保羅（Alice Paul）──爭取美國女性投票權 ▶ 馬丁．路德．金恩（Martin Luther King Jr.）──推翻種族隔離政策、領導民權運動 ▶ 凱薩．查維斯（Cesar Chavez）──領導農工為改善工作環境、福利而抗爭 ▶ 瓦茨拉夫．哈維爾（Václav Havel）──在專制鐵腕中創造真民主 ▶ 格蕾塔．通貝里（Greta Thunberg）──說出真相，為氣候變遷罷課 作者相信，非暴力手段越不和平越好，拒絕暴力但歡迎衝突，他認為這是比較理想的抗爭方式，甚至可能是修復這支離破碎世界最好的方式。 希望讀完本書後，讀者也會同意這個觀點，並在這些故事的啟發下，加入正在努力以非暴力手段改變世界的鬥士。 獻給下一個世代的非暴力運動人士，你就是力量！

Einer der letzten, die noch davon erzählen können Michael – Mischa – erlebt eine behütete Kindheit in Prag. Er spielt gern Fußball, der Vater ist erfolgreicher Anwalt. Doch als Mischa gerade acht Jahre alt ist, marschieren die Deutschen ein. Die Repressionen nehmen zu, bis zur Gründung des Prager Ghettos, in dem Mischa mit seiner Familie landet. Aber das ist nicht die Endstation: 1942 wird er mit Mutter und Schwester ins Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt gebracht. Dort lebt er mit vierzig anderen Jungen in einem Schlafsaal unter der Leitung von Franta, der die Jungen heimlich unterrichtet – Vaterfigur, Beschützer und Mentor zugleich. Die Kinder bilden eine verschworene Gemeinschaft, viele wachsen Mischa ans Herz wie Brüder. Doch über allem schwebt stets die Angst, in einen der Züge gesetzt zu werden, die an einen Ort namens Auschwitz fahren ...

Prague, 1939. Misha a 10 ans et adore les après-midis au magasin de jouets avec son père. Mais quand les troupes allemandes envahissent la ville, les lois antisémites se multiplient, et l’insouciance de Misha vacille. Avec sa famille, ils sont envoyés dans un ghetto puis déportés dans le camp de Terezin. C’est là que Misha se lie d’une amitié fraternelle avec quarante garçons. Erich, Jan, Koko, Felix, Pavel... et surtout Franta, leur éducateur et mentor. Dans les coups durs comme lors de leurs parties de football, ils sont les Nesharim, unis à la vie, à la mort ! Mais avec le danger constant des convois « vers l’Est », Misha peut-il garder espoir ? En collaboration avec l’auteur Todd Hasak-Lowy, Michael Gruenbaum partage son histoire bouleversante d’humanité et de fraternité. Son témoignage, ainsi que les nombreux documents et photographies originaux qui l’accompagnent, apportent une contribution essentielle à la littérature de l’Holocauste.

A first collection of seven short fictional works follows a theme of personal crises interrupted by global issues and features such characters as a journalist who becomes a client of the diet company he investigates, a man who loses his wallet just before a nuclear battle between India and Pakistan, and a slacker who becomes a translator during a bitter family reunion. Original.

Disaffected and angry screenwriter Daniel Bloom finds that his revenge fantasy about a nameless assassin who is taking down evil corporate executives and politicians is becoming all too real.

Eis que, num dia qualquer, o pai de Darren aparece do nada às seis da manhã com um Donut e uma revelação que vira o mundo do jovem de cabeça para baixo. Narrando suas reflexões e descobertas por meio de listas e mais listas, Darren captura com perfeição os motivos por que qualquer coisa relacionada a qualquer pessoa é: 1. Dolorosa; 2. Inevitável; 3. Ridiculamente complicada; 4. Provavelmente, e com um pouco de sorte, a coisa certa no fim das contas.