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Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the

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The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things' (Caitlin Moran)...
Goliath: What the West got Wrong about Russia and Other Rogue States

Goliath: What the West got Wrong about Russia and Other Rogue States

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We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here are 10 rules for how. Everything you think you know about...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

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We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

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A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

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A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican

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Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

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Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters...
A Most Wanted Man

A Most Wanted Man

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A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

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The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in...
Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World

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The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A...
Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...
Underground

Underground

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Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism...
Dreaming in the Urban Areas: First Nations Classics

Dreaming in the Urban Areas: First Nations Classics

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Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Kirli Saunders, Dreaming in the Urban Areas is an unforgettable work of Indigenous poetry. Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) was...
Optimism Over Despair

Optimism Over Despair

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A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow -- from the greatest public intellectual of our times We have two choices. We...
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

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Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in...
Hitch-22: A Memoir

Hitch-22: A Memoir

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Over the last thirty years Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. His originality, bravery, range and wit made him first a leading...
Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War From an Unconventional Woman

Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War From an Unconventional Woman

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Fight Back

Fight Back

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An empowering story about finding your identity and the courage to fight for it. Aaliyah is an ordinary thirteen-year-old living in the Midlands - she's into her books, shoes, K-pop...
What We're Scared Of

What We're Scared Of

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Evie and Lottie are twin sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Evie's sharp and funny. Lottie's a day-dreamer. Evie's the fighter, Lottie's the peace-maker. What they do have in...
Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Michael C. Bender, senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, presents a deeply reported account of the 2020 presidential campaign that details how...
Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book

Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book

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AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer'A beautiful novel about an American...
Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627

Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression,

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From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the ""Donglin Faction"" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged...
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal

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Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth

Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth

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* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015* Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership...
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

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In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
Jihad in the West: The Rise of Militant Salafism

Jihad in the West: The Rise of Militant Salafism

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Militant Salafism is one of the most significant movements in politics today. Unfortunately its significance has not been matched by understanding. To begin to address this knowledge deficit this book...
A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America

A Fury For God: The Islamist Attack On America

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The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were carried out by men steeped in a certain Islamic ideology, which has come to be called Islamism. In A Fury for...
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

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In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

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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...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'

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'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
Soar: As heard on Desert Island Discs

Soar: As heard on Desert Island Discs

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'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - GuardianCan an outsider ever become a member of the establishment?Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black man to...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'

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'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

The Storm is Here: America on the Brink

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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 explanatory...
Love and Politics: The Revolutionary Frederic Ozanam

Love and Politics: The Revolutionary Frederic Ozanam

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Radicalism and Music

Radicalism and Music

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Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. It makes a case for the careful examination...
The Austrian Revolution

The Austrian Revolution

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The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

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The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

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Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

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Author: Michiko KakutaniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 420g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the...
Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir

Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir

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Author: Alicia Roth WeigelFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 454g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "One of the most brilliant thought leaders I have been able to share...
The Fights of My Life

The Fights of My Life

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His Name Is George Floyd: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION

His Name Is George Floyd: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION

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Hawke

Hawke

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Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet

Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet

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Suffrage to Sufferance: A Hundred Years of Women in Politics

Suffrage to Sufferance: A Hundred Years of Women in Politics

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Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving

Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving

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Britain's health service is dying. Gavin Francis shows us why we should fight for it. Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS....