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"Elegant and incendiary." Naomi Klein. Beautiful Trouble brings together dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists,...

Who became Britain's first Prime Minister on 3 April 1721?When was Karl Marx born?Where and when was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses?When did Big Ben first bong?When did the first British woman cast her vote? (Clue: It wasn't 1918.)Find the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523091683Author David EhrlichmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The incredible true story of the only woman to have worked during the Second World War as a codebreaker at both Bletchley Park and the Pentagon Betty Webb is the only surviving codebreaker to have worked on both Nazi and Japanese codes at Bletchley...

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONESAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas...

Previously published as Mega Robo Revenge but now reformatted in a longer, chunkier package with brand new content, Robot Revenge is an unmissable adventure for graphic novel fans. BROTHERS. ROBOTS. SUPERHEROES. The Mega Robo Bros have a new and...

Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West. This definitive fiftieth anniversary edition features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.One of the most important books ever written about the Soviet...

This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people-mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others-lost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912887644Author Carlos VidelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Sanctuary Press LtdPublisher Sanctuary Press LtdWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary ReviewFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian...

World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk,...

'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native...

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand...

As seen on This MorningThere was a time when I loved my mother. It's shocking to imply that I stopped loving her because mothers always love their children and always do their best for them. Mothers are supposed to be good. But my mother wasn't good.Ten...

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's...

The Candidate Handbook contains many features to aid learning: Case studies throughout contain real life stories of situations that early years practitioners might come across, encouraging them to reflect on their own practice and that of other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682040058Author Benito MussoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Fpd BooksPublisher Fpd BooksWeight(grams) 59g

'A fascinating call to arms full of insight' IndependentAfter four decades broadcasting to the nation each night, Jon Snow gives vent to his opinions on the state of our nation . . . the good news and the bad newsIt is rare in history that so many...

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573954Author William DalrympleFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams)...

'This novel is one of his finest in a long and redoubtable oeuvre' William Boyd, New York Times From renowned author Paul Theroux comes a fascinating, atmospheric novel inspired by George Orwell's years in Burma There is a short period in everyone's life...

WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS 'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day 'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully real.' Attitude 'Transitional is a clever, moving book that...

** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment? Read as world-famous, provocative economist, and former Greece finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis,...

Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the "experts."Despite the efforts of these mainstream...

"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about...

The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will be even worse. Much worse. But things don't have to be like this. In this bold new book,...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia...

'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends...

Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political changeForget everything you think you know about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063272248Author Jane FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 644g

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous - and notorious - woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in...

In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed'A...

Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in southern England all the way to Arisaig in northern Scotland, in an unbelievable effort to defeat the Nazis and win the Second World War ...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Rowson.For the reader who has heard of such giants as Gladstone and Disraeli, and has drunk...

Take the hard work out of gluten-free cooking Cook hassle-free, everyday recipes Enjoy meals from bestselling gluten-free author See a photo with EVERY recipe Joy, the author of the bestselling cookbook "NOSH for Students", started writing for...

The most authoritative and highly regarded single-volume history of India - from ancient time to the modern day. Five millennia of the sub-continent's social, economic, political and cultural history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India...

How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their communities in times of crisis The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval...

In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged...

Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE...