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Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times bestseller and recommended by Bill Gates- Jared Diamond's visionary exploration of how nations cope with...
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
Author: Susan Neiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As the western world struggles with legacies of racism and colonialism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Hitler: A Global Biography
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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From an Iconic Monarch
Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most important cultural and political icons in modern British history. As the United...
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
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Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 America in the 'aughts--hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country's most prominent social critics Now in...
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...
Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education
Author: Luke Rosiak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs. Improved STEM literacy. Greater achievement for inner-city children. Happiness for all children....
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country
Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an...
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...
Think Small: The Surprisingly Simple Ways to Reach Big Goals
Author: Owain Service Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Working inside the world's first Nudge Unit, Owain Service and Rory Gallagher know the huge impact that small changes, based on...
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
Author: Cory Doctorow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe,...
Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop
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Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Corrado Vivanti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thought This is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung...
The State and Revolution
Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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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,...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money
Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia
Author: Luke Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 2007, Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British...
Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
Author: James Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's...
Churchill and Australia
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A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide
Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
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Author: Judith Rodin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Building resilience,the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively,is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
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...
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...
The Battle For The American Mind: Uprooting A Century Of Miseducation
Author: Pete Hegseth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! FOX News host Pete Hegseth is back with what he says is his most important book...
A Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive
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Diary of a Foreign Minister
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Early Socratic Dialogues
Author: Emlyn-Jones Chris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates...
Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman
Author: Charles Dunst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 ' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim...
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...
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
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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...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
Author: Tim Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with:...
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
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Author: Alan Bullock,Baron Bullock
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 1050
Gravity: Inside the PM's Office During Her Last Year and Final Days
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Napoleon's Shield and Guardian
Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition....
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru
Author: Mark Isaacs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 When it comes to asylum-seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the government wants us to know. In the...
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...