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JFK: Say Goodbye to America
American distrust of government, politicians and authority in general can be traced back to the time of the official investigation into the assassination of President John F Kennedy, and the...
The Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza
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In 1987, former U.S. Marine sniper Craig Roberts, a seasoned verteran of the Vietnam war, stood for the first time at the 6th floor "sniper's nest" window of the Texas...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
The Incarcerations
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZE A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of...
The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war. From September 11,...
Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse
Award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow wields a whip-smart, satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last several abysmal years in politics. With lacerating wit and his signature...
Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer: One Woman's Private Diary from
A gripping and important memoir by a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin's Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in...
Beyond Vietnam
With a new foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At...
The Real Story of the French Revolution: Separating Myth From Reality
The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in the eighteenth century. Everyone knows about the guillotine and the grisly processions of tumbrils, but less is...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
The Forgotten Rebels Of Eureka
The Eureka Stockade. The story is one of Australia's foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there. What if the hot-tempered,...
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. The platforms locked us...
Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are
Deeply informed, heartfelt, and urgent, Excellent Daughters brings us a new understanding of the changing Arab societies-from 9/11 to Tahrir Square to the rise of ISIS-and gives voice to the...
Zoya's Story: A Woman's Struggle for Freedom in Afghanistan
Zoya grew up in Kabul during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan. The daughter of activists, she was to lose both parents to the mujaheddin at an early age. She then...
Everyday Activist: A Guided Journal for Engaging Your Community,
Unleash your inner activist with this guided journal, full of 52 prompts and activities to help you get more involved with politics, the environment, social justice, and more! With so...
The August Coup: Three Days That Shook the World
This is an analysis of the causes and consequences of the coup detat that began in the USSR on 18 August 1991. It examines such issues as why and how...
Axis of Evil: the War on Terror
Axis of Freedom examines the dramatic world events which unfolded from 11 September 2001 to the end of occupation of Iraq in the summer of 2004. Many books have been...
Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring
"Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem." -Jon Stewart "The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World"-the creator of The Program , the most...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War
This book tells the story of the two assassination trials, exploring what made them pivotal in American history. Were they used to make the South pay for secession? Were they...
Sontag: Her Life
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. Susan Sontag was our last...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which...
Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
Place is inextricably linked to history by way of culture, language, philosophy, faith and the development of worldviews. The richness and depth of experience of the Asia-Pacific region has been...
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate...
Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the
For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the...
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in
Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking...
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder...
The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A
Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. His father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced
In 2015, sixty million people were displaced by violent conflict globally - the highest since World War II. National and international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving freely...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
"A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian ' Breath-taking courage and compassion [...]a beautiful book' The Sunday Times...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history 'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...
We Do Not Part
Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' - Washington Post '[An] epic history ......
Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain
Politics: The three vowels and five consonants which control our world.'But what has politics got to do with me?' I hear you ask. Well, quite a lot really. Whether you...
Never a Native
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Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health
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Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America
A veteran of New York and national politics, Luis Miranda embodies the relentless spirit of progress of American immigrants. There is nobody on the Latino, New York, and national political...
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial Times'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony...
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes...
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity
'With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.' Annie Lennox OBE'Smart and courageous, this book should be on everyone's must-read list.' Naomi...
Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World
Riley Gaines has been called many things: Collegiate athlete. All-American. Champion. But in 2022, everything changed. The narrative shifted. Now, critics smeared her as: Transphobic. Narrow-minded. Evil.What changed? Riley gave...