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Smash the Boxes!
How do stereotypes and prejudice work? What impact do they have on people’s lives? How can we deconstruct them and change our mindset? This book explores stereotypes and prejudice across different areas: body, gender, education, immigration, religion, identity, sexual orientation, age, and new technologies. Understanding how our mind reacts when faced with diversity can change the actions and behaviors that…
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I Am Adila
A touching story based on the real life of Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Adila is a Pakistani girl, she loves school and dreams about becoming a teacher or a doctor. One day she hears her father saying that she would be safer at home, together with their parents. Sad and worried, she speaks with her teacher. The next day…
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My Brother Who Speaks With Trees
Tommaso Biondo climbed Pizzo Sella, a hill in Palermo, and never came back. Since then, that barren hill, defaced by housing speculation, has greened up. A miracle? Thirty years later, when his brother Andrea receives an award in recognition of Tommaso’s service to the city, his speech brings the Botanical Garden Band back to life. The extraordinary adventure of five…
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Can Boys Be Feminists?
A book dedicated to boys, young males who want to approach feminism: to understand it a little more, to become allies in the struggles of their female friends and, above all, to free themselves from the stereotypes that still exist on the idea of ‘man’ or ‘male’ and to understand how a non-toxic masculinity can do them a lot of good too! The book answers…
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The Parable of the Independent Bakers
There was once an old bread shop, owned by an old couple who had baked their delicious bread, made by hand every day in a very special way, for as long as anyone could remember. Over the years, a big factory had bought all the other bread shops in town. One day, the man from the big bread factory came…
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Pioneers. The Women Who Made Europe
Eleven biographies recount the desire for a Union under the banner of peace, rights, social justice and gender equality, capable of transcending national barriers and short-sighted visions. The women on this roll have been revolutionaries, lawyers, civil servants, trade unionists and teachers. Some were protagonists of great founding moments, others of tenacious daily work. A journey through the 20th century to lead us to the richness, but…
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The Thread of Hope
Vita, an elderly Sicilian woman, is confined to her home, where she is reflecting on the past and putting her emotions in order, and she decides to leave a testimony to her granddaughter Nina. Through her memories, she tells the story of her youth, the times when she embroidered and fought against exploitation. Inspired by a true story, the novel recounts the great mobilisation of…
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