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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . ....
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors'...
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual'...
Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman
Author: Lindy West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 *CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW* 'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
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Author: Kai Strittmatter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been...
Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
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Author: Steven Weisenburger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The first in-depth historical account of the events that inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. In the middle of a frigid Sunday...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
Author: Camilla Pang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
Author: Nigel Biggar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of...
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...
An Autobiography
Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...
Three-Fifths
Author: John Vercher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Pittsburgh, 1995. Twenty-two year old Bobby Saraceno is a biracial man, passing for white. Bobby has hidden his identity...
A Ceiling Made of Eggshells
Author: Gail Carson Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine tells a moving and ambitious story...
Commandant Of Auschwitz Commandant Of Auschwitz
Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis...
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...
Roots
Author: Alex Haley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The radical, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins- a powerful memoir, a...
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers
Author: Michelle Obama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a...
The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga
Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping...
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race
Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking...
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
Author: Jacob Soboroff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." -Rachel Maddow Now in paperback, featuring updated...
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
Author: Richard Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The sequel to the global phenomenon The Spirit Level, this book explores the impact of inequality on each of...
Citizen: An American Lyric
Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
The One Who Wrote Destiny
Author: Nikesh Shukla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, fortune, the Rolling Stones...
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children
Author: Patrick Hutchinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun 'I just want equality,...
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Author: Robin DiAngelo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism Anger. Fear....
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead
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Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival
Author: Amira Keidar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
Author: Nigel Biggar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet...
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
Author: Thomas Chatterton Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' 'An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to...
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Author: Dimitris Xygalatas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Xygalatas is a brilliant polymath ... An important intellectual contribution and a true delight' - Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The...
My Broken Language: A Memoir
Author: Quiara Alegria Hudes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "Quiara Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are...
The Good Ally
Author: Nova Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary...
The Meritocracy Trap
Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has...
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Author: Nadifa Mohamed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan...
Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival
Author: Mende Nazer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the...
Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Izzi Howell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Find out about the life of Martin Luther King Jr from how he fought racism and led the civil rights movement...
How To Be an Antiracist
Author: Ibram X. Kendi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A radical new way to think about racism and an inspiring treatise for what to do about it from the...
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It
Author: Jonathan Greenblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." -Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL,...
Salvation: Black People and Love
Author: bell hooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "A manual for fixing our culture...In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may...