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Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation
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...
The Incarcerations
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...
The Incarcerations
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
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...
Assassination
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Using examples from Caesar to Rabin, Hudson asks to what extent the course of history can be determined by individuals and whether individual leaders are merely the result, and not...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
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
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 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...
The Klansman's Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A
Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. His father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
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...
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to...
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...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
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...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871
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 , 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...
Among the Heroes
The events of September 11th 2001 are etched on the minds of people all over the globe. This book examines the fate of Flight 93. Believed to be heading for...
The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
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...
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,...
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,...
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
A wonderfully constructed account of bravery and resolve in the face of brutal injustice. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces...
The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins
What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act...
The Lessons Of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians
In the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington many people believe we have entered a new world, but in this thought-provoking and thorough examination of the history...
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 Storm is Here: America on the Brink
The New Yorker 's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory...
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for...
Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr...
Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab American
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"Nada Prouty served her country loyally, with distinction, and, as universally acknowledged by her colleagues, with great personal courage as a CIA covert officer. This tale of rampant trampling of...
Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law
Place is inextricably linked to history by way of culture, language, philosophy, faith and the development of worldviews. The richness and depth of experience of the Asia-Pacific region has been...
The Ultimate Spin Doctor: Life and Fast Times of Tim Bell
A biography of the top spin doctor to the Conservative Party, Sir Tim Bell. His career has scaled the heightshe groomed Margaret Thatcher for her election triumph in 1979and the...
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and
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...
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...
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan - is a quintessential 'stateless' space, where the government has little presence and armed actors operate...
Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes...
Running Against the Devil: A plot to save America from Trump - and
In this full-throttle playbook for 2020, Rick Wilson, longtime Republican strategist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, warns Democrats not to make the mistakes...
Truth to Power: (Gift Edition) 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER ' Will ruffle some feathers. ' Stylist 'There's nobody else at Westminster quite like Jess Phillips. She is...
Hostage: Complete Story of the Lebanon Captives
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...
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...
Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation
China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the...
Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea
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On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'etat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces...
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange
This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk...
Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for...
Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of
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"A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism" ( The Washington Post ) from the bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer The wars in the...
The Incarcerations
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...
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...
Ultimate Sacrifice
Recent revelations by the U.S. government point to Cuba’s former number three official—Commander Juan Almeida—as secretly working with President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 to overthrow Fidel Castro. This...
What's Wrong With Terrorism?
Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bombings around the world have made terrorism...