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He has been called passionate and violent, cryptic and probing, hostile and eloquent. His works have been called brilliant and unbearable, poetic and documentary, classic and controversial. He is a major voice of the Civil Rights Movement. His words,...

A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like "Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and powerful protest songs such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105329Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 419g

In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana's revelations about life in Saudi Arabia's royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their...

In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana's revelations about life in Saudi Arabia's royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their...

Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds...

'Groundbreaking ... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop' Wil Haygood, Washington Post'He was a...

Explore the struggle for racial justice in Britain through the lens of one of Britain's most prominent and controversial Black journalists and campaigners. Born in Trinidad during the dying days of colonialism, Darcus Howe became an uncompromising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780814255995Author Jerald WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Ohio State University...

A Guardian biography of the year 2022 Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023 This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843560111Author Herbert Alick StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Simon Wallenberg PressPublisher Simon Wallenberg PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864655Author SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646992402Author Constantinos EmmanuelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Urhobo Historical SocietyPublisher Urhobo Historical Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737982975Author Lg ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Outcast PressPublisher Outcast PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916820265Author Phil FramptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint PublishNationPublisher PublishNationWeight(grams) 522g

Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona. Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological...

Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires...

**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick LaneOut at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you will find beautiful, haunted salt marshes, coastal...

The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510536Author Daniel R. DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

In this unique, profoundly inspirational memoir, Divorce Court star Judge Lynn Toler shares her mother's wisdom for learning to conquer anger and become immune to insult.Toler credits her mother's "rules" for life a life that saw her grow up the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760099Author Gail Lumet BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488g

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer's own words In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half...

The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin's rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist's Russia editor.'Fast-paced and excellently written' New York Times'A real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet...

Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish History Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year The legendary Scottish king Mael Coluim III, also known as 'Malcolm Canmore', is often held to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796324Author Gareth H. H. DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492679011Author Nefertiti AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc

'At times roaring and visceral, in turn gentle and embracing, always driven by hope and determination' RAYNOR WINN 'Haunting and powerful' KATE MOSSE To grow up in rural poverty is to fight for life before you can walk.Natasha Carthew was born into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852917Author Webster G TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 848g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916596092Author Liam ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint PublishNationPublisher PN BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439148990Author Todd BridgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & Schuster

Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings - Home to Roost and Counting my Chickens.The pieces are broad...

Entertaining, instructive, thought-provoking and hilarious, the unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire rings out of this volume which combines her two collections of 'occasional' writings - Home to Roost and Counting my Chickens.The pieces are broad...

There have been many Marilyn photo books - but nothing like this. Australian-born curator and preservationist David Wills has accrued one of the world's largest independent archives of original Marilyn Monroe photographs. Now, in "Marilyn Monroe:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591848349Author Zack O'malley GreenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*Tim Moore, the author of the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an...