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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063473379Author Jr., Martin Luther KingFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This book highlights the role of knowledge in school education. It shows that while the Scottish education system used to be among the strongest in Europe, its students’ attainment has dropped in recent years. The book argues that the clue to this...

An exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to church, vote, eat TexMex, shop for groceries, listen...

Argues that engineers influenced by French Enlightenment science built much of the machinery of America’s military state while redrawing the line between the federal government and society. In The Scientific-Military State, Sveinn M. Jóhannesson charts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217176984Author Simon RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Plume BooksPublisher Plume BooksWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 145mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681066554Author Steve SchoenbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Reedy PressPublisher Reedy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897101214Author Hugo VickersFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 533g

Notebooks for the Grandchildren is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917. Through the eyes of young Ukrainians like himself, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but...

Our ancestors didn't just take the piss. They used it too.The human body leaks. It oozes. It sweats and spits. It bursts, it bleeds and it squirts. Over the history of humanity, our bodies have evolved into sophisticated vessels for survival, leaving a...

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A compelling and timely study of what drove history's most influential civilisations... the book comes with impeccable timing... An entertaining and informative read for anyone interested in the forces that shape how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639739349Author Becky AikmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

For over five centuries, the Roman Empire ruled much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It produced some of history's greatest orators and statesmen, as well as some of its most debauched and corrupt tyrants. Shaping world affairs, the Roman...

A collector's edition of the key founding documents of the United States, distinctively packaged as a deluxe hardcover edition with specially curated inserts throughout.This exquisitely designed volume collects the U.S. Constitution and other selected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262058780Author Elena FilipovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Told in her own words, this is the incredible true story of one young woman's survival of Auschwitz and Belsen because she happened to play the cello.Although my head was shaved and I had a number on my arm, I had not lost my identity totally. I may no...

A leading genocide scholar explores the history of Zionism, Israel’s lurch towards extreme oppression and violence, and why it stands accused of crimes against humanity'Essential' BOOKLIST'Anyone disturbed and frightened by our current moral and...

This is the first scholarly study of Britain’s oldest pilgrimage site in continuous use, St Winefride’s Well. Since the martyrdom of its titular saint in the seventh century, pilgrims have flocked to the shrine in Holywell, north Wales, in search of...

The agents of coercion in Egypt - its military, police, and intelligence services - have been locked in a perennial struggle for power since their inception. Each institution has vied for dominance, shaping and reshaping the country's political landscape...

Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread...

'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie'A landmark book, urgent...

UPLIFTING, PRACTICAL AND SURPRISING WISDOM FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING CLASSICIST'Wonderful. Thoughtfully chosen, carefully explained and beautifully expressed' NATALIE HAYNES'A literary phenomenon' TLS'She leaves her readers inspired, invigorated...

UPLIFTING, PRACTICAL AND SURPRISING WISDOM FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING CLASSICIST'Wonderful. Thoughtfully chosen, carefully explained and beautifully expressed' NATALIE HAYNES'A literary phenomenon' TLS'She leaves her readers inspired, invigorated...

From the celebrated magazine of international writing, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, with an introduction by the Dial's editor in chief, Madeleine SchwartzThe 2024 U.S. presidential election reverberated internationally, a...

An explosive investigation into how America's longest wars created a threat from within by flooding the US military with extremists now fueling MAGA, domestic terror, and the global far right. In Irregular Army, investigative journalist Matt Kennard...

In the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism, where art and riot flourished side by side.'The Weimar Republic was Germany's postwar experiment...

Join historian and anthropologist Luke Pepera on a journey through African history to discover the stories that still shape our culture today'Absolutely riveting' OLIVETTE OTELE'A masterful achievement' TOM HOLLAND'A brilliant gift of truth' BETTANY...

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “The American Dream,” part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proposed his vision of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063484214Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063481961Author Dr Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063481732Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening—and frequently myth-busting—facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called “a gift of knowledge” by Susan Taylor, former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine There’s no...

‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668079744Author Louise BranganFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 513g

This book is the first comprehensive account of the triumphs and follies of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921-the first federal policy aimed at improving health outcomes for mothers and babies. Michelle Bezark insightfully weaves together the experiences...

The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668236918Author David McCulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 630g

This book is the first comprehensive account of the triumphs and follies of the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921-the first federal policy aimed at improving health outcomes for mothers and babies. Michelle Bezark insightfully weaves together the experiences...

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the spread of practical knowledge in Western Europe-reshaping...

The Iron Curtain remains an iconic representation of the Cold War. But what was it really on the ground? Fortified borders to prevent citizens from leaving emerged first in the interwar USSR and then in socialist post-WW II Europe. Fortifications...