John Howard Griffin was a white American journalist best known for his seminal work documenting a unique social experiment. Through darkening his skin and traveling as a black man through the Deep South, he vividly chronicled the deeply disturbing racism he encountered. His unflinching account serves as a powerful testament to the dehumanizing effects of prejudice and the urgent need for empathy.
Der Trappistenmönch Thomas Merton (1915-68) zählt zu den wichtigsten christlichen Personen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit seinem Leben hat er viele Menschen nachhaltig beeindruckt und geprägt. Die offizielle Biografie beschreibt die entscheidenden Jahre seines Lebens, in denen er aus der Stille der Einsiedelei für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit kämpfte.
The increasing popularity of the Internet has resulted in the majority of today's programming tasks and applications involving some form of networking. Almost every programming language provides some networking facilities. However, unlike other programming languages, Java had support for network programming built into it right from the start. Java, therefore, allows you to develop powerful network applications with exceptional ease. This book introduces you to the world of Java network programming and takes you far inside it. The chapters of this book are grouped in five sections. The first section looks at network basics. Java networking preliminaries are then covered in the following section. The third section explores classes that are provided by Java to handle a variety of network tasks. Java API's that are used for distributed network programming are covered in section four. The fifth and final section investigates new networking features and improvements offered by JDK 1.4. This book
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Themen: USA – African Americans, Ideals and reality – structural problems 1959 in New Orleans: der weiße US-amerikanische Autor John Howard Griffin verwandelt sich dank Medikamente und künstlicher Höhensonne in einen Schwarzen. Er will den Rassismus in den Südstaaten am eigenen Leib erfahren. Mit vielen Vokalbelhilfen und Annotationen stellt der packende Report Black Like Me den Bezug zu aktuellem Rassismus her und ist auch in den USA Teil des Lehrplans vieler Highschools und Universitäten. Ungekürzte Ausgabe mit einem Vorwort von Studs Terkel und aktuellen Kommentaren von John H. Griffin und seinem Biograph Robert Bonazzi. „This is a contemporary book, you bet.“ (Studs Terkel, 2004)