Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793385Author E J KohFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014! 2014 (Canada) and George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (2014), Winner 2014 (Canada)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600256Author Martha S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528207Author Wes MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208664Author Matthew HensonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060242Author Grace TalusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

In the years following the founding of the State of Israel, close to a million Jews became refugees fleeing their ancestral homelands in the Middle East, North Africa, and Iran. State-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and political unrest brought an...

'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and...

No boxing book collection is complete without the classic, award-winning, Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing. With this updated edition, brought to the United States for the first time, the original cover art by fine artist Amanda Kelley, depicting James "Lights...

In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by...

In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073360Author Yaba BlayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than...

Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of...

This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales. Moving away...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942645900Author Sergey GrechishkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint InksharesPublisher InksharesWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593445907Author Geena RoceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understand the shifting sands of...

A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than...

In this classic work-a blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant today-the first Black Congresswoman to serve in American history, New York's dynamic representative Shirley Chisholm, traces her extensive political...

Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing is rushed to Kosovo, on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398408470Author Valerie McKeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116546Author Victor H GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987583949Author Julie MallinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ark House Press and Media IncorporatedPublisher Ark House Press and Media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (J. Sando Western History) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780425247853Author Chester NezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley...

Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440222668Author Dennis RodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210727Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA, AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON BBC THREE NOW'An essential read for anyone with the slightest interest in the birth of Grime' The Wire'Sharp and nostalgic' The ObserverA group of kids in the 90s had a dream to make their voice heard - and...

British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban commanders, the award-winning filmmaker found himself on the wrong end of the camera lens, with a gun at his...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198502Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156976480Author Howard ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062443892Author Gulwali PassarlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006511Author Angela TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. An increasingly mysterious, set of relationships emerged amongst its former...

The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being...