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Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One [...]
The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed on Freedom brings...
Nicholas & Alexandra: Nicholas & Alexandra
Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it...
Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian [...]
'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing...
Satans and Shaitans
From the winner of the 2021 Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature... Determined to overrule the Nigerian President, members of the powerful secret society, The Sacred Order of the Universal Forces,...
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
The Political Ideology of Hamas: A Grassroots Perspective
Hamas is typically portrayed in the West as nothing more than a terrorist organisation. Yet as Michael Irving Jensen discovers, it also provides medical clinics, kindergartens, schools, elderly care and...
Crisis
We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out...
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change
In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image - and...
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of...
Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege
This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites...
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World-and How You Can, Too
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across...
Beyond Vietnam
With a new foreword by Viet Thanh NguyenA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States
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...
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART
Author: Dr Sima SamarFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 233mm, 415g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2024The inspiring memoir of the warrior for women who's defied the Taliban at...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters
Author: Natasha Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning
Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Elliot Ackerman's exceptional memoir is a superb, unique and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice A...
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
Author: Moshik Temkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others. Sometimes their...
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'
Author: Vincent Bevins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir
Author: Alicia Roth Weigel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 "One of the most brilliant thought leaders I have been able to share space with."-Jonathan van Ness, from...
The Climate Book
Author: Greta Thunberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world's leading climate activist has gathered over one hundred voices to tell the biggest story in the world We still...
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future
Author: Charlie Hertzog Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In 2019, climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young attempted suicide, following a succession of breakdowns. He jumped off a six-storey building,...
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking
Author: Kerryn Phelps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Author: Santi Elijah Holley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Editors' Pick "Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles Times The long...
Behind Bars: On punishment, prison & release
Author: Lady Unchained Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 ***** 'So deeply gripping and inspiring...It will stay with me, always.' - Annie Macmanus In 2008, 21-year-old Lady Unchained got involved...
Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power
Author: Kyle Spencer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right-and how they've partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political...
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography
Author: Pramod Kapoor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Rarely seen images and rigorous research provides fascinating insight into one of the most revered figures in modern Indian history. Gandhi...
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Author: Bernadette Vallely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what...
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health
Author: Michael Milken Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
Author: Jill Lepore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST ^ "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of...
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...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...