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While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
Author: Yeonmi Park Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on...
Soldier Spy
Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
Rights of Man
Author: Thomas Paine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication...
Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop
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Beazley a Biography
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Lucia in the Age of Napoleon
Author: Andrea di Robilant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught...
Dark Victory: The Military Campaign to Re-Elect the Prime Minister
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More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine
Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
Author: James Kitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 With the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the longest conflicts in our nation's history were supposed to...
The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society
Author: Matthew Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In September 2008 the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ignited panic throughout the financial system, sparking a chain reaction that led...
Samuel Pepys: A Life
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Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
Committed Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
Author: Jonathan E. Hillman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'One of the most interesting and original thinkers about the rise of China' - Peter Frankopan Its vast...
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Author: Nesrine Malik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave...
Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite
Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Washington insiders operate by a proven credo: When a Peter Schweizer book drops, duck and...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Author: Martyn Lyons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953,...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
On Freedom
Author: Cass Sunstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 136 From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means-and requires-today In this...
Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Jenny Wormald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful...
Churchill and America
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Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution
Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
Caesar
Author: Christian Meier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 As politician and diplomat, writer and lover, but above all as a military genius, Julius Caesar is one of the perennially...
A Warning
Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its...
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
The White Divers of Broome
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Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear
Author: James Curran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ** Shortlisted, The 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year Award ** Australia's relationship with China is one of the dominant...
Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how we put them back together again
Author: Jon Yates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? 'Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, Fractured...
Sabotage: The Business of Finance
Author: Anastasia Nesvetailova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Two leading political scientists show why the financial sector is an 'industry of sabotage', with systemic malpractice at the...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
Leviathan
Author: Thomas Hobbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through...
Courtesan'S Revenge
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The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Author: Ian Kumekawa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War
Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Fascinating... A vivid account' - Philippa Gregory, The Times In the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil...
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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The King's Speech: How one man saved the British monarchy
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Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russiawas about to invade Ukraine. And yet, the world was...
Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John's Daughter
Author: Danna R Messer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...