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A Question of Character: John F. Kennedy in Image and Reality
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Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a...
Darwin and Fundamentalism
Darwin s Origin of Species is undoubtedly one of the most important books in the scientific pantheon. But can we take Darwin s theory of evolution as a confirmed scientific...
Out of a Dead End into the Unknown: Notes on Gorbachev's Perestroika
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A prominent insider describes the rise and fall of Gorbachev's Perestroika.
Blood & Banquets Fromm
The book titled Blood & Banquets Fromm by the author Bella Fromm. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Glasnost in Context
This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle
Following the success of his memoirs "The Time of My Life", Denis Healey turns his attention in this lively and penetrating collection of essays to the themes which underlie the...
The Time of My Life
An autobiography of Britain's foremost politician who, in his range of interests, in the brilliance of his mind, and in his ability to write is probably unique among figures in...
Beaverbrook: A Life
Lord Beaverbrook, 1879-1964, was a cabinet minister during World War II. As a minister, Fleet Street press baron and compulsive manipulator, he was both admired and hated. His friends ranged...
How Did We End Up Here?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph:
In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once...
Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the
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The book titled Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the by the author Jack F Matlock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Woodrow Wilson
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This new biography of our 28th president is pithy and intelligent; it is also hurried. As with other titles in the Penguin Lives series, the match up of author and...
W. B. Yeats: A Life Vol.2: II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The...
The Problem with Me: And Other Essays About Making Trouble in China
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"Funny and shrewd" ( The New York Times Book Review ) essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han...
Peril
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 revealed the transition from President Trump to President...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* * Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian 'This is the book Trump fears...
Big John Forrest 1847-1918: A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of
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Known by the contemporary press as Big John, Forrest was as large in reputation as he was in stature, and achieved a level of fame and popularity unique in the...
Developments of Civil Society in Communist Systems
This book explores the background to the cataclysmic changes which have occurred in the former world communist systems. It applies the idea of civil society - a traditional concept of...
Orwell's Australia: From Cold War to Cultural Wars
Orwell's Australia argues that, in an era of global war and national insecurity, the Australian left must once again become the defenders of our way of life and political institutions...
Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner
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This is the first full account of one woman's heroic struggle against SLORC, the brutal military junta in power in Burma since 1988, and an expose of one of the...
Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should...
Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
The first comprehensible critique of Evolutionary Psychology and its key thinkers (Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, E.O. Wilson, etc.), written for the general reader Today, genes are called upon to explain...
Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader
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This update of Ball & Dagger's celebrated reader introduces students to the "isms" that shape modern politics. Presenting key selections from a wide array of original sources, this collection covers...
State and Society in Post-War Japan
State and Society in Post-War Japan integrates the previous work of disciplinary specialists into a coherent account of how Japanese society has changed since the war. Bernard Eccleston focuses on...
Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Miracle of Democracy
Drawing on interviews with leading figures such as Gorbachev and senior members of the Yeltsin team, this book examines the extraordinary changes that have occurred in Russia since 1987. It...
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal
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Extensively revised and updated the Fifth Edition of this best-seller provides a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the ideas and ideals that shake and shape our political world. Written...
JFK: Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid
Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...
Social Policy, the Media and Misrepresentation
The often-misleading ways in which radio, newspapers and television report poverty, homelessness, education, health and disability are of crucial and growing concern to those studying social policy and media studies....
Political Animals: Confessions of a Parliamentary Zoologist
Jane Clifton has been big-game hunting in the corridors of power for more than 25 years as a political journalist, columnist and commentator. Here she looks back with characteristic wit...
Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary
Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating...
Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980
Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...
Cases in Comparative Politics
Cases in Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition, is a set of thirteen country studies that describe politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, China, India, Iran,...
Essential Chomsky, The
In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his eightieth birthday. For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings...
Vietnam: A Portrait
The book titled Vietnam: A Portrait by the author Jacques Bekaert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the fight to expose its toxic secrets
The inside story of the employees who were brought in to fix Facebook but instead uncovered disturbing problems that made them question whether it was beyond saving. Facebook had a...
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and
A masterpiece of narrative reporting and an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump's wealth, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters - revealing how a man once thought to be...
Against Elections: The Case for Democracy
An ingenious, heretical and timely argument to save democracy from elections Whenever there are elections, the results are the same- fear-mongering, division and broken promises. Against Elections offers a new...
Backstop Land
A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics and which is likely to become Britain's frontier with the wider...
Australian Prime Ministers
Australian Prime Ministers completes the extraordinary rise of Australia s 29th Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and the re-election of the Liberal Government in 2016./p> p>This book includes the completed chapter...
The Age of Grievance
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." - The Wall Street Journal * "The best prescription for our redemption." - The New York Times *...
Researching the People's Health
This study examines the different ways in which needs are assessed and health care is organized and delivered. These matters are considered in the light of rapid change in patterns...
Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs
When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the globe was still divided into two armed camps - one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. The...
Jack: A Life Like No Other
The book titled Jack: A Life Like No Other by the author Geoffrey Perret. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside
The essential Irish guide to Brexit Brexit represents potentially the single greatest economic and foreign-policy challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War. There is hardly any area...
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The "closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky ) story of climate migration in...
The Democrat Party Hates America
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star returns to the page to reveal the radically dangerous Democrat...