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Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871
The Enlightenment had dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies. Man's quest for ecstasy and trancendance flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the...
The Russian Revolution 1917-1921: History Association Studies
This book examines the dramatic and sometimes violent events which accompanied the fall of the Russian czars and the creation of the Soviet nation. In drawing upon the most recent...
The Long Affair
As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
Portrait of an Island on Fire
A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history....
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says "knows all of...
The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason
Raised a Muslim but increasingly outraged by her religion's hostility towards women, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has now become one of today's most talked-about, admired and controversial political figures because of...
Women and Social Protest
Bringing together eighteen thought-provoking articles--most of them written especially for this volume--Women and Social Protest addresses a long-neglected area in social history and politics, showing how in recent years feminist...
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating...
The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright
A cult figure among loyalists, despised and feared by nationalists, Billy 'King Rat' Wright is reputed to have been involved in a number of sectarian murders before he himself was...
The Age of Grievance
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." - The Wall Street Journal * "The best prescription for our redemption." - The New York Times *...
The Revisionists: A thrilling and utterly compelling novel from the
Gripping, propulsive and intelligent, The Revisionists is a tour de force, an absorbing, unputdownable novel about ambition - and how we curate our own stories and rescript our memories in...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film...
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871
From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. HOLY MADNESS probes into the psyche...
Now What?: A People's Manifesto for a Better 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...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Power to the People addresses growing voter apathy and disenchantment worldwide - that familiar sense that governments have become decoupled from their constituencies, that votes no longer count, and that...
Hostage: Complete Story of the Lebanon Captives
This expose documents how a small group of Westerners came to be the victims of a form of diplomacy which was widely believed to have died out in the Middle...
The Death of a President: November 1963
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White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right
Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher In a...
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 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...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
Learn about transformational reforms like paid parental leave, the NDIS, the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and revolutionising pensions from Labor's Jenny Macklin, with insights from Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut,...
Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler
When the Second World War broke out, Philipp von Boeselager fought enthusiastically for his country, leading a cavalry unit first in France and later on the Russian Front. However, when...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a radical...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a radical...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between...
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
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 suffragettes and second wave...
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
A wonderfully constructed account of bravery and resolve in the face of brutal injustice. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces...
The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act...
The Lessons Of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians
In the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington many people believe we have entered a new world, but in this thought-provoking and thorough examination of the history...
The Radicalism Handbook: A Complete Guide to the Radical Movement in
This handbook presents over 350 biographies of 20th-century radicals including freethinkers, campaigners for human, gay and women's rights, Third World liberationists and global and environmental activists. It also profiles over...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink
The New Yorker 's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory...
Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr...
The Ultimate Spin Doctor: Life and Fast Times of Tim Bell
A biography of the top spin doctor to the Conservative Party, Sir Tim Bell. His career has scaled the heightshe groomed Margaret Thatcher for her election triumph in 1979and the...
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie , a devoted student and friend of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel invites readers to witness one of the...
Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes...
Running Against the Devil: A plot to save America from Trump - and
In this full-throttle playbook for 2020, Rick Wilson, longtime Republican strategist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, warns Democrats not to make the mistakes...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea
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On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces...
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange
This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk...
Mountain to Mountain
Being inspired to act can take many forms. For some it's taking a weekend to volunteer, but for Shannon Galpin, it meant leaving her career, selling her house, launching a...
Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of
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"A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism" ( The Washington Post ) from the bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer The wars in the...
What's Wrong With Terrorism?
Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bombings around the world have made terrorism...
Wales Say Yes
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On 18 September 1997 the Welsh electorate voted for a National Assembly. The slender majority was an enormous turnaround from the outright rejection of 1979, a turnaround engineered by the...