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Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet regime. Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile....
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?
Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost...
Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy
Author: Shibani MahtaniFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 560g, 336 pagesPublished: Hachette Books, United States, 2023Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years...
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (The Sunday Times
The imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights, and of the complicated women who fought them Well-behaved women don't make history- difficult women do. 'This is the...
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most pressing issues of our time In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal...
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS , THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became
The Sunday Times and NYT bestseller. A shocking true-life thriller about corruption, dirty politics and murder in Russia by one of Putin's Most Wanted. 'An unburdening, a witness statement and...
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines
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INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer--whose work on the front lines of the fight...
Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later...
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Women so empowered are dangerous Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by 'the leading historian of Soviet crimes' (Sunday Times) In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of...
Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand
Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued...
Notes of a Native Son
A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather, the bestselling, Costa prize-winning author of The Volunteer (over 100k TCM)...
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
'Amanda's story underscores the lasting power of speaking your truth, building a movement, and never losing sight of your dreams' Melinda French Gates A brave and imaginative memoir by the...
Moscow Underground
'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Remarkable ... If only all first novels were as enthralling as this'...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most pressing issues of our time In Peter Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal...
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race
History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals,...
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation-the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. F rom the bestselling...
Defy: The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes
'A must-read ' - Dr. Robert Cialdini 'Transformative' - Daniel Pink 'A culture-shifting manifesto' - Jonah Berger ' Powerful ' - Adam Grant Why is it so hard to speak...
The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance
Combining moment-by-moment drama with an emotional story of friendship and bravery, The Escape from Kabul is also a searing insight into the captive fate of women in Afghanistan. In the...