Stasiland

Interviews about the East German Stasi during the Cold War- with both victims and former Stasi. A compelling look at the most extreme methods of social control ever attempted by the most oppressive secret police and intelligence agency in history.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Cultural Action for Freedom

One of the best known educators who dedicated his life to the cause of democracy, and equality. In this powerful book he advocates for the role of education to be a political force for freedom and liberation rather than for oppression through rote learning and describes the approach required to achieve this.

Man’s Search for Meaning By Victor Frank

The book you’d hope every person on earth would read. About how even in the face of the unimaginable terror and inhumanity – the Holocaust — we still have a choice about how we respond. Here is Frankl’s own experience and conviction that we can still hold on to our dignity and humanity even when facing almost certain death.

People of the Noatak

Claire Fejes moved with her husband to Fairbanks, Alaska and sought to understand Eskimo life. In so doing she gives a rich and intimate account of her time with the Noatak peoples.