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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788944595Author Swami VivekanandaFormat HardbackPage Count 830Imprint Discovery PublisherPublisher Discovery PublisherWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145404Author Ray E BoomhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882326136Author Terry Fred HorowitzFormat PaperbackImprint Library of the HolocaustPublisher Library of the HolocaustWeight(grams) 277g

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen's memoir, Pillar of Salt: A Daughter's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust, breaks down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From...

Shortlisted, Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Non-Fiction)What does it mean to be exiled? For the landmarks of your past to disappear?In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany...

Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s...

First published in 1961 The Unmentionable Nechaev presents a full account of Sergei Nechaev's extraordinary life. The name of Nechaev is little known today in the western world. Michael Prawdin expounds his teachings and shows the strain of Nechaevism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879264Author Andrew RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint VikingPublisher VikingWeight(grams) 152g

Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft. In May of 1896, a young magician from New York City...

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such,...

The French were the archenemies of the British and her American colonies, particularly after the French and Indian War which was begun by George Washington. So, why did America look to the French as their principal ally in the American Revolution and why...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781991016188Author Paul DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Massey University...

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of EleuthEre IrEnEe du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493066728Author Thomas C BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade Publishing

Over the years American -- especially New York -- audiences have evolved a consistent set of expectations for the "Irish play." Traditionally the term implied a specific subject matter, invariably rural and Catholic, and embodied a reductive...

This concise biography of Harriet Tubman, the African American abolitionist, explores her various roles as an Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, and women's rights advocate. The legendary Moses of the Underground Railroad,...

We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr., the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism-what he called the "giant triplets."...

Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in...

Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount...

A Native of Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa tells the story of how a quiet, serious African boy growing up in the sleepy coastal city of Durban in the 1940s became part of the generation of outspoken black South African journalists in the 1950s and 1960s...

Biography of Ludwig Rajchman who was an exponent of humanitarian intervention and a defender of colonized people. He inspired the creation of WHO and UNICEF, of which he was the first chairman.Book InformationISBN 9789639116177Author Marta A...

This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of...

Lu Hsiu-lien's journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan's evolution from...

Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in...

In this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid, insightful letters are "the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world." Adams' spontaneous, witty letters serve...

The reign of Nero is often judged to be the embodiment of the extravagance and the corruption that have, for many, come to symbolise ancient Rome. David Shotter provides a reassessment of this view in this accessible introduction to Nero, emperor of Rome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780375708152Author Wade DavisFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345406408Author Robert K. MassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm)...

Pham Xuan An was one of the twentieth century's greatest spies. While working as a correspondent for Time during the Vietnam War, he sent intelligence reports - written in invisible ink or hidden inside spring rolls in film canisters - to Ho Chi Minh and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982179748Author Catherine OstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956638038Author Dieudonne GnammankouFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Books of Africa LtdPublisher Books of Africa LtdWeight(grams) 648gDimensions(mm)...

St Birgitta of Sweden was one of the most charismatic figures in the late medieval mystical tradition. In Rome she succeeded in commanding prelates and popes, and throughout the courts of Europe she engaged in political secular intrigues; she married and...

Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother and the mother of Randolph Churchill, the 7th Duchess of Marlborough, has been a slight figure in many other people's biographies yet her own story as a member of a remarkable family has never been fully told,...

Conventional portraits of Neo-Confucianism in China are built on studies of scholars active in the south, yet Xue Xuan (1389--1464), the first Ming Neo-Confucian to be enshrined in the Temple to Confucius, was a northerner. Why has Xue been so overlooked...

The first biography of John Quincy Adams' talented and spirited wife, the only first lady born outside the United States Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife and political partner of John Quincy Adams, became one of the most widely known women in...

In 1798 Robert Morris-"financier of the American Revolution," confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator-plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the...

This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061173882Author Eric MetaxasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118172766Author Joseph T. FuhrmannFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...