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Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
'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
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
'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...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
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...
Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance
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
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
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...
The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today's Most Essential Superpower
'Fascinating ... Should be required reading everywhere' STEPHEN FRY Trust: like water, like electricity, our society can't function without it. It's a treasure, a living thing that can be cultivated...
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
What happens if the world's richest and most powerful men decide to dismantle democracy? This is the story of the radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel,...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,
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
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
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...
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can
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...
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize* A true masterpiece of narrative history showing Indonesia's epic revolution to be the great turning point of the 20th century A story of staggering...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
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 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
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...
Through the Eyes of Children: Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War
A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art. What is it like to be a child living...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
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...
What Happened to Belen: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women's
"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."- Kirkus Reviews (starred...
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the
NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Douglas Murray, international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator confronts what he views as the most pressing issue of our time: why Western support of the...
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
'Chillingly original' Max Hastings 'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor 'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum 'Britain's most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered'...
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X
Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and...
No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost' FINANCIAL TIMES The unmissable...
Stalin's Wine Cellar
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. 'A wild, boys-own adventure...
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat...
Guerrilla Warfare
The revolutionary Che Guevara's guide to guerrilla war First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. Che considered that the Cuban...
The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death- the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba...
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848....
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...