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Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest

Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest

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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 Incarcerations

The Incarcerations

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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...
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2021

You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2021

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Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens

Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens

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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,...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the

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

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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...
The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

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THE EMPIRE MUST DIE portrays the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the despotism of the Communist Revolution. The...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world

Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world

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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...
Primitive Rebels

Primitive Rebels

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Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, PRIMITIVE REBELS , he shines a light on the...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

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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 Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness

The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness

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The Second Emancipation , a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-World War II colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary...
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht

The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht

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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...
The French Revolution: A Political History

The French Revolution: A Political History

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A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, France's ancien regime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige,...
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom

Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom

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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...
The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West

The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West

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From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all," and it...
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller

After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller

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Author: Max Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to...
Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on

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A "devastating" ( Nation ) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape Owned is the story of the...
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

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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...
Vietdamned: How the World's Greatest Minds Put America on Trial

Vietdamned: How the World's Greatest Minds Put America on Trial

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Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir,...
Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of Climate Action

Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of Climate Action

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In this important and timely book, scientists from a broad range of disciplines detail their personal responses to climate change and the ecological crises which led them to form Scientists...
Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur

Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur

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' 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'...
Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The

Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The

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'This book is both heart-rending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but ultimately, it's about love. He teaches us humanity.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Thank you, Joey, for getting your...
Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

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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...
The Freedom to Be Free

The Freedom to Be Free

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'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world

Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world

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Danny Sriskandarajah learned the value of citizenship at a young age as the child of Tamil migrants who moved from Sri Lanka to Australia. Arriving in the UK as the...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

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THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir...
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

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The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth...
Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring

Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring

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Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to...
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant's Fight for Reproductive Rights

A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant's Fight for Reproductive Rights

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An empowering and gripping story of a pioneer of women's rights written by a critically-acclaimed writer and historian, for fans of Hallie Rubenhold, Hermione Lee and prize-winning Victorian histories. 'Makes...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness

Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness

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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 Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi

The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps: The Bloody Battles and Intrigues of the Shinsengumi

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Author: Romulus Hillsborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honour. And by this courage and for this honour...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the

On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the

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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals

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Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and...
Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary

Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary

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The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan

The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan

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The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to...
Why War?

Why War?

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A study of what leads humans to war, from one of our great military historians There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand...
Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance

Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance

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An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe A captivating portrait of number-one...
Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions

Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions

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Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...
Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

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Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,

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Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

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A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

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Winner of the NCR Book Award. Number 1 bestseller in hb. World-wide best-seller. The book which made Schama's name The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French...
Nuclear War: A Scenario

Nuclear War: A Scenario

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We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up...
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can

But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can

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A masterclass on how to achieve real change 'Everything a manifesto should be- heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.' The i __________________________________________________ Your country needs you. Your planet needs you. Your time...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

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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...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo

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The iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first time In 1791, inspired by the ideals...
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold

Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold

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The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

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Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables,...