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Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights
Author: Eve Lloyd Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 On June 28 1969, around one o'clock in the morning, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Author: Yang Jisheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great...
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds
Author: Susie Alegre (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump...
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
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Author: Vicky Osterweil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy. Looting -- a crowd of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
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Author: Kai Strittmatter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been...
Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us
Author: Kubra Gumusay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it mean to exist in a language...
Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
Author: Suzanne Nossel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "A must read."-Margaret Atwood A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882
Author: Roger Daniels Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has...
Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Author: Alberto Alemanno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Lenin on the Train
Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
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Author: Paul Kendrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 [An] inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King's imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
Silencing Dissent: How the Australian government is controlling public opinion and stifling debate
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
Author: Brian MacArthur Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the most significant speeches of the modern era. The twentieth century was a...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
Author: Jill Lepore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST ^ "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the...
Making The News: A Guide For Activists An Nonprofits
Author: Jason Salzman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At a time when more and more people are becoming activists, this thoroughly revised and updated edition of Making the News...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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The Good Listener: A Life Against Cruelty
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Bitter Winds: Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
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Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Author: Masha Gessen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999,...
New Power
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Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Author: Meighan Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'YOU'LL BE MOVED BY THE BRAVE WOMEN IN AWAKENING' MALALA YOUSAFZAI 'AWAKENING GOES WHERE NO BOOK HAS GONE BEFORE. INSPRIRING, INSIGHTFUL,...
A Woman of Independence
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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict
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The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
Author: Ellis Cose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Named one of Newsweek's "25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020" The critically...
Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed
Author: David Cole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Donald Trump's policies, from his travel ban to his approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, have prompted an immediate...
Mission to Tashkent
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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Fidel: A Critical Portrait
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Henry Eric: La Revancha/Revenge
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The First Sex
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The First Sex
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Sisterhood is Powerful
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Alice DoesnÕt: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema
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