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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791441329Author Julian WolfreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156261456Author Leonard Sidney WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668072318Author Gretchen WhitmerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 262g

As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560715Author Kamala HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin PressPublisher Penguin PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm

In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cortes was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the Republic's land reform movement, and an organizer in the farm workers'...

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book... incisive, radiant' Olivia Laing'Illuminating, dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator'Enthralling... a triumph' Andrew SolomonAlex Halberstadt returns to Russia, the troubled, enigmatic land of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593238646Author Neal GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1264Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographer," delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors-their rivalries,...

Looking at defining moments in Winston Churchill's life and revealing his key principles, philosophies and decisions, this book will teach you how to think just like Churchill.Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's...

Sir Edward Woodville was the medieval knight par excellence - except that his life coincided with the beginning of the Renaissance. With this vivid and long-awaited biography, Christopher Wilkins demonstrates how Sir Edward carved out an important role...

A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the beginning four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public actions and budding social movements. Throughout this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109983Author Michael V. HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196879Author David Cay JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313315Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Peter Kropotkin's philosophy of anarchism suffers from neglect in mainstream histories; misrepresented as a utopian creed or a recipe for social chaos and political disorder, the intellectual strengths and philosophical integrity is overlooked. ...

Known in his day as the man who built the Town Hall, Abel Heywood was a leading Manchester publisher who entertained royalty at his home and twice became Mayor of Manchester. Yet before he found success his life was one of poverty and hardship, marked by...

Through a close and critical reading of biblical texts, ancient history, and recent archeological discoveries, Steven L. McKenzie concludes that David was indeed a real person. This David was not the humble shepherd who slew Goliath and became king,...

A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848408470Author David Blake KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

This is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life...

William Dodd was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937, arriving in Berlin with his wife and daughter just as Hitler assumed the chancellorship. An unlikely candidate for the job--and not FDR's first choice-- Dodd quickly came to realize the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823348Author Abbas MilaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 399Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 626g

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had derided his judgement, denied his claims to greatness, and excluded him from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263805Author Leonard PeltierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

This work aims to make sense of the extraordinary man - whom many people feel they know well. His career, personal life and his role in Britain's survival during World War II, including her help in the defeat of Hitler, are investigated.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226155Author Koigi wa WamwereFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 532g

From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which...

Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world...

A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style and...

A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America's First Families are unknowable in...

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This new and revised edition of William Beveridge remains the only documented biography of the most influential social reformer of the twentieth century. In Britain and Europe the Beveridge Plan of 1942 is still widely regarded as the seminal document of...

The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations...

'I am truly grateful to Mary Elmes for the life I might not have had, had it not been for her brave actions to save us and many others. She was truly a heroine.' Michael Freund Mary Elmes was an extraordinary woman. Sometimes known as the 'Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455585670Author Michael MorellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists' today. Rodney lived through the failed -though...

David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140449Author Salam PaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press