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Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now
Author: Lauren Sharkey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'We're not the future. We're doing it right now.' Young girls and women are uniting across the world to...
Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights
Author: Eve Lloyd Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 On June 28 1969, around one o'clock in the morning, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar...
Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Author: Lucy Siegle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of...
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed the World
Author: Tony Perrottet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the...
The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
Author: Ben Shapiro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 New York Times Bestseller How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line...
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Author: Yang Jisheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Why are Southeast Asia's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Author: Susie Alegre (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this...
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
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Author: Vicky Osterweil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors'...
Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us
Author: Kubra Gumusay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it mean to exist in a language...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
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Author: Kai Strittmatter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been...
Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
Author: Suzanne Nossel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "A must read."-Margaret Atwood A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources
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Author: Norman Pearlstine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 318 Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Author: Alberto Alemanno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative...
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of...
My Country: A Syrian Memoir
Author: Kassem Eid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On 21 August 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500...
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Author: Wim Klooster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and...
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
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Author: Paul Kendrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 [An] inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King's imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta...
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Author: Yang Jisheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 _______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear...
Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light
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Author: MS Susan Dunn (Williams College) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented...
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
Author: Brian MacArthur Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the most significant speeches of the modern era. The twentieth century was a...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
Author: Jill Lepore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST ^ "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the...
Making The News: A Guide For Activists An Nonprofits
Author: Jason Salzman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At a time when more and more people are becoming activists, this thoroughly revised and updated edition of Making the News...
The Good Listener: A Life Against Cruelty
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Bitter Winds: Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
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