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Raising My Voice
Malalai Joya has been described as the bravest woman in the world. As a teenager she worked as a woman's rights activist under the Taliban, running underground classes and clinics...
Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in
Nationalism in the Vernacular illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics. In doing so, it provides a new angle to the understanding of nationalism by looking...
China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance
Selected by Choice magazine as a Outstanding Academic Book for 2000 Nelson Mandela once said, "Human rights have become the focal point of international relations." This has certainly become true...
Dubai: Gilded Cage
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study...
Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons
Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously - some would say notoriously - spent more than twenty years in the United States representing prisoners on Death...
Nelson Mandela: A Biography
Sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his part in organizing armed rebellion against South Africa's white rulers, Nelson Mandela stayed faithful to his goal of a peaceful, non-racial...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
HEADSCARVES AND HYMENS explodes the myth that we should stand back and watch while women are disempowered and abused in the name of religion. In this laceratingly honest account, Eltahawy...
The Cliveden Set
'A lively, entertaining and informative account of one of the stranger episodes to have created a national legend.' Anthony Howard, Sunday Times Lloyd George once spoke of 'a very powerful...
The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
The story of Fray Servando's life in exile recounst the adventures of one of the most original ideologues of Latin American independence. On December 12, 1794, Fray Servando preached a...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Powerful, moving, simple and forceful, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights speaks to us all - about hope, about our ideals, about the sort of world we want to...
On Liberty
Introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb 'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is...
Trustees on Trial: Recovering the Stolen Wages
Details the Qld government's nearly 100 year stranglehold on Aboriginal people's lives and earnings. Lays bare its (mis)management, and its conditional offer of up to $4000 compensation, representing for some...
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of
In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's "Creator and "Nature's God," on...
We have been harmonised: Life in China's Surveillance State
CHINA TODAY. TOMORROW, THE WORLD? In China's shiny new 'Smart Cities', citizens can scarcely cross the road or buy an orange without the government knowing about it, and tweeting satirically...
In the Company of Cowards
On a beautiful, balmy evening in Cuba in 2007, David Hicks walked out of Guantanamo Bay, in that moment ceasing to be a detainee of the United States and regaining...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. On April 3, 1968, Dr....
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may...
To Battersea Park
'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd'Surefooted and emotionally generous ... A serious achievement' Guardian 'Masterful' Telegraph 'A revelation'...
Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced
In 2015, sixty million people were displaced by violent conflict globally - the highest since World War II. National and international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving freely...
The Politics of Cruelty: Essay on the Literature of Political
This work sets out a new theory of politics for today, and offers a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of...
Our God Is Marching On
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Our God Is Marching On," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build-and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals,...
Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a 'man's world' - alone and literally with just the clothes on her back - to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne's...
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals
A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a...
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*...
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela s...
Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will
It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...
Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It
An indispensable guide to your right to protest'A lawyer in your pocket' - The Secret BarristerIn this handbook, campaigning lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything you need to know when...
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain
A new history of modern Britain that makes sense of its contradictions today Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people,...
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines
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INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer--whose work on the front lines of the fight...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES 'The expert on America's right-wing fringe ... With kidnappings,...
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply into our lives that it's worth asking: In our reverence...
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...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...
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...
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom
A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight
From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman whose incredible journey still resonates today. From the internationally bestselling author...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...
The Gulag Archipelago
'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons,...