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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762327Author Richard FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

"...the Winston Churchill of our time." - Former President George W. Bush, in reference to Ukraine leader Volodymyr ZelenskyyAmidst the turmoil of an unprovoked attack by neighboring Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has emerged almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127802Author Leon PanettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 457g

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an insightful study of the inner life of David Ben-Gurion, the Zionist leader responsible for the creation of the state of Israel"The most intimate yet unflinching portrait to date. . . . Shapira may be the last...

One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to...

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.' - Toussaint Louverture The leader of the only successful slave revolt in history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062982643Author Jules WitcoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 431g

He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party...

He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party...

The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest in 1979 at the age of 21. Jailed for more than a decade for her activities as...

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The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of...

The Rise of Andrew Jackson recounts our seventh president's unlikely ascent to the highest office in the land. Born poor in what became the border region between North and South Carolina, Jackson's sole claim on the public's affections derived from his...

A no-holds-barred biography of Viktor Orban, the most successful--and arguably most dangerous--politician in Hungarian history. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, and deep-rooted corruption, Prime Minister Orban has...

A new edition of Orwell's early account of bleak working class life in the industrial culture of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which revealed the distinctions between the upper classes of the British Empire and the reality of the people who worked in the...

Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her...

Maggie is John Sergeant's mordant analysis of Margaret Thatcher's career and, more importantly, the legacy she has left to the Conservative party, which he would argue has been little short of disastrous. He takes us from the glory days of three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753602Author Richard HolbrookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm)...

John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, music and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised...

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the outbreak of World War II,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376172Author Francois-Rene ChateaubriandFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

For nine years, Carwyn Jones was at the helm of Welsh politics. As First Minister from 2009 to 2018, he led the governance of an increasingly devolving Wales through turmoil and success.Not Just Politics follows Carwyn from his roots in a small corner of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953928798Author Jeffrey DudgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Belfast PressPublisher Belfast PressWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of the country and forced him to step down as leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In this revised and updated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192038Author Ian BirchallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192038Author Ian BirchallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791411445Author Helen Rodnite LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint 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 9781642935677Author Laura LoomerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 164mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984855046Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

From reviews of Volume I: "Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth waiting for." -Luso-Brazilian Review Journalist and spectacularly successful...

Playwright, journalist, and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the...

Growing Up Biden details Valerie's decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her brother's life as an insightful adviser, an ever-loyal advocate and best friend. This memoir, full of candor and warmth, brings...

Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)-founder of the John Birch Society-is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves...

Until his death in a Gestapo prison cell, Rudolf Hilferding was one of Europe's most prominent socialist theorists and politicians. A leading economic thinker in the European socialist movement and an important politician in the German Social Democratic...

"The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured their 73 'voices' into telling a fascinating story of the UN and its institutions, which is also a story of 73 individual lives, of women and men . . . with their own complicated histories of emigration...

Labour's octogenarian powerhouse weaves together eighty years of fascinating personal, social and political history in her memoirs.From Boots Girl to Baroness, Joyce Gould boasts an impressive list of experiences and accomplishments. Through sixty-four...

Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also the...

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era-the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential...

An inspiring and urgent memoir by the ambassador who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power. By the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670094202Author Therese Obrecht HodlerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 132g