Civil Rights

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and...

'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A fascinating, can't-look-away,...

'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyone prepared to defend all expression in every...

In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality - proving there are many faces of feminism."Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who...

This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punishing individuals for allegedly offensive utterances. And academia -- already an institution in which free...

2023 WINNER OF THE BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD!2022 WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS IN THE CHILDREN'S TRADE 9 TO 16 CATEGORY!"Start making. Start being the change you want to see in this world." - De NicholsFrom Keith Haring to Extinction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857491336Author Horace CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka PressWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Provides an up-to-date introduction and analysis of the US political scene written from a comparative perspective, newly revised and updated throughout American Politics and Society in an accessible introduction to the main institutions of the US federal...

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news: from the US reauthorization of the Violence against Women Act and a United Nations...

'If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door'This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a...

Author of the Penderyn Prize-winning The Velvet Mafia Fifty years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the...

For the past eight decades, we have lived in “the American Century” – a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivalled power – be it political, economic or military - on the global stage.  Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent...

Current global estimates of children engaged in warfare range from 200,000 to 300,000. Children's roles in conflict range from armed and active participants to spies, cooks, messengers, and sex slaves. Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States...

A New York Times Bestseller! "I hope we wake up quickly because history shows it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back."-Naomi Wolf on Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight In a stunning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234216Author John Howard GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 108mm...

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things...

Examining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country, Cancel This Book shines the spotlight on the suppression of open and candid debate. The public shaming of individuals for actual or perceived offenses, often against emerging notions of proper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970524006Author Miria MatembeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807043844Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK.The book combines digital methods analysis of large...

What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve...

At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841741406Author QC Nicholas BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Blackstone Press LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDEAR MADAM PRESIDENT is an empowering letter from former White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women working to succeed in any field. By using...

Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution...

Explosively personal account by a British lawyer who defends Death Row prisoners and Guantanamo Bay detainees.Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously - some would say notoriously - spent more than twenty years in the...

Bread from Stones, a highly anticipated book from historian Keith David Watenpaugh, breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of modern humanitarianism. Genocide and mass violence, human trafficking, and the forced displacement of millions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589125Author Peter KornbluhFormat PaperbackPage Count 606Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 865g

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. To most Americans, Malcolm and Martin represent contrasting political ideals -- self-defense vs. non-violence, anger vs. pacifism, separatism vs...

Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more...

They have come to intersect with an entire range of domestic issues, from welfare policy to suburban zoning practices. In an explosive chain reaction, a new conservative voting majority has replaced the once-dominant Democratic presidential coalition,...

'A powerful, salient and gracefully written study of the corrosive dynamics of race in Britain from a trusted voice on the subject. We can all benefit from reading it' Diana EvansIn this transformative book, Nicola Rollock, one of our pre-eminent experts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016129Author Rochelle GursteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago considers the origins, challenges and future of Chagos, bringing together leading experts and academics specialising in differing aspects of the Chagos dispute. In 1965, as part of negotiations leading...

Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839182Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)...

The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis,...

From the prison farms and lynch mobs of Mississippi to the political intrigue of the African liberation wars, Stokely Carmichael's remarkable life story covers the full range of the black liberation struggle in our time. Carmichael recounts his...

Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean...

From renowned veterinarian Dr. Doug Mader comes a stirring account of his fight to protect his animal patients and human staff amid the dangerous realities of inner-city life and the Los Angeles riots-and a celebration of the remarkable human-animal bond...