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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966257949Author Steven WonduFormat PaperbackImprint East African Educational PublishersPublisher East African Educational PublishersWeight(grams) 340g

"Views on the "rules of the game" as seen by political wives are assembled here by one who personally "experienced the brutal world of politics." The author, who participated in her husband's failed gubernatorial contest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096497Author Suad AmiryFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485308164Author Dan KriekFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684863313Author BROOKHISERPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and...

A comprehensive biography of the Indonesian nationalist leader and Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic, Sutan Sjahrir. This work is both a study of an individual and the social conditions that shaped him. The author has conducted extensive research...

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was Polish, Jewish, and a woman in an international socialist movement dominated by Germans, gentiles, and men. For Luxemburg, there was no real socialism without democracy and no real democracy without socialism. In this...

A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule...

Maurice Thorez (1900-1964) was a major figure in the history of twentieth-century France and European Communism for over three decades. Under his leadership, the French Communist Party (PCF) became France's largest political party and one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604863192Author David GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 493g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477920Author Giacomo DonisFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 501gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's contested presidential elections for Newsweek magazine. He thought he'd be returning in just a few days to Paola, his pregnant fiancee. Instead,...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's contested presidential elections for Newsweek magazine. He thought he'd be returning in just a few days to Paola, his pregnant fiancee. Instead,...

In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't...

British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as a womanizer, a careless aristocrat and the apostle of big-stick diplomacy. His lengthy life linked the American Revolution and the Assasination of Lincoln, the French Revolution...

The life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survivalMeir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane...

The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287471Author Stephen BudianskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing. From the author of The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531355Author Georgina HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Sarah Crichton BooksPublisher Sarah Crichton BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971088Author Richard HelmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

The rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms--from the global movement for women's rights to a renewed interest in feminine spirituality, the Goddess, and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848409101Author Lindie NaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Island BooksPublisher New Island BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. The six-year-old boy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm...

Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister of England from 1834-1841. As mentor and father-figure to the young Queen Victoria, he exerted considerable influence over the first few years of her reign. He was a man to whom career success came rather late - he was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984855022Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his...

Lord North was in many ways a most successful politician. Prime Minister for an unbroken 12 years, his management of both parliament and of the business of government was adept. He enjoyed the confidence of King George III, not always an easy political...

A compelling biography of Sheikh Abdullah, the charismatic, combative, and controversial Kashmiri politician Written by the leading historian of modern Kashmir, this is a comprehensive portrayal of one of the most enigmatic politicians in modern South...

An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWII Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II. In his work as a diplomat and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593607619Author Franklin FoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...

Lord Ashley (later the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury), the 'Poor Man's Earl', is widely remembered as a leading aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian 'progress' saw him champion a range of social,...

As the principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, in the critical period of 1985-1991, Pavel Palazchenko participated in all U.S.-Soviet summit talks leading to the end of the Cold War. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780375760211Author Kenji YoshinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher...

A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who defied all the conventions of her turbulent era. Born in 1853 in Texas, she was an outspoken black woman, radical writer and labour organiser. Parsons led the defence campaign for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138550Author Greg GutfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crown Publishing GroupPublisher Crown Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948122269Author David MargolickFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books