Activism, Protests, Revolutions

The weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, were traumatic for nearly every American, but for some, the answers they received from the media and the government to explain...

General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative, forward-thinking commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. He was better known to some as Big Stan, M4, Stan, and...

What if you could look into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with messages that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British...

' Words for My Comrades ambitiously sets out to transcend the standard pop star biography, carefully knotting the evolution of hip-hop into a sweeping account of 20th-century radical US politics'...

Aviation security expert Philip Baum delves into the archives to reveal the stories behind the most astonishing and shocking crimes in aviation history, calling on real-life testimonies from hijackers, crew...

The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America. This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US recruit who was...

A cinematic memoir of justice and redemption that traces a former Black Panther's tumultuous life from gang member to Black liberation leader. Russell Shoatz was a gang member from age...

Five years of lies and hypocrisy. Four activists holding power to account. One book showing how they did it - and why they're not done yet. 'Not funny' Liz Truss...

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her...

'A story of a simple but straightforward woman, caught up in the complications of the French Revolution' Economist Madame de la Tour du Pin was born Henrietta-Lucy Dillon in Paris...

For five years, journalist William Echikson has reported from Eastern Europe, travelling from Poland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south, documenting the daily struggle against the Communist system....

This book makes sense of the events of December 1989, when Romanians turned on Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and overthrew their savage, megalomaniac rule in a wave of violence and...

A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...

A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before...

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...

The book titled Damn' Rebel Bitches: Women of the '45 by the author Maggie Craig. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The fighter, the activist, the man, the icon. An officially authorized collection, Muhammad Ali Unfiltered is Jeter Publishing's intimate look at one of the most inspiring figures of our age....

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...

The book titled Vindication: Postcard History of the Woman's Movement by the author Ian McDonald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 story of the dark side of the Afghan war - and how Pakistan degenerated into a nuclear-armed powder keg Eight years ago we chased the Taliban from Kabul and...

An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinead O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinead Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more....

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 *...

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...

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...

Coups and Uprisings that Changed History; Revolutions have been called the motors of history. They have overthrown centuries-old regimes and empires, brought new and powerful ideas into the forefront of...

September 11, 2001. A day that shook the world and left thousands dead in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and in the Pennsylvania countryside. This book serves as...

A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...

The killing of holders of high office for a predetermined political or ideological purpose is a practice as old as power politics itself. Assassins tells the darkly sensational story of...

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...

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 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...

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...

Bovard is one of Washington's most controversial journalists, known for the searchlight he has shone on the trampling of civil liberties and privacy by successive US administrations. In this, his...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters now turns his sharp eye towards the historic 2024 presidential race, providing the definitive, insider account of the...

The book titled The Death of a President: November 1963 by the author William Manchester. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled An Honourable Defeat: Fight Against National Socialism in Germany, by the author Anton Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

After nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, is there anything left to...

Rather than simply celebrating the 'triumph of liberty', Jack Rakove's new history of the American Revolution will stress the ambiguous legacy of the revolution, a legacy that ranges from liberty...

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...