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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228832102Author Kaaren Anne SephtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 1025gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

'In the Ring' deals with impossibly devious plots and characters - ambitious presidents and prime ministers from all corners of the world, some determined to hold onto power at any cost; a British government often with a misplaced sense of its own role...

Beginning with his first foreign service post in 1927 and ending seven decades later, Kennan's account is rich with the insight of a major historical participant. Whether relating the perils of Hitler's Germany or revisiting Kennan's days as ambassador...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565336Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Praise for H. Paul Jeffers Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age "One of the most entertaining historical business narratives in recent memory. The story of this symbol of America's Gilded Age is filled with such gusto and vigor that even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887128728Author William BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the...

This collection of biographical essays brings to life a diverse and colourful cavalcade of British revolutionaries from the first part of the 20th century. The cast includes pioneering women Communists, doughty trade union leaders and dusty apparatchiks,...

'The most loveable figure in modern politics' was how A. J. P. Taylor described the Christian pacifist, George Lansbury, who at 73 took over the helm of the Labour Party of only 46 MPs in the Depression years of the 1930s. Throughout a remarkable life,...

A revised and updated second edition of the first full-length scholarly English-language biography of António de Oliveira Salazar.This academic biography will provide a vital source to historians interested in Salazar, the far right and Portugal.The book...

This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa's most important changes in the transition from apartheid to a constitutional democracy. Hassen's political...

"I have attempted to take the high ground," writes George F. Kennan in the foreword to this illuminating work, "trying to stick to the broader dimensions of things-the ones that would still be visible and significant in future decades." Against the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464900125Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 68g

The assassination of Chris Hani outside his home in Dawn Park on 10 April 1993 by a right-wing extremist was a decisive moment in the transition to democracy in South Africa. Drawing on personal knowledge of the ANC in exile in Lusaka, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977465729Author Joan MellenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint JFK Lancer Productions & PublicationsPublisher JFK Lancer Productions &...

On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of...

"It is thus important to a) fundamentally purge the Finance and Gosbank bureaucracy, despite the wails of dubious Communists like Briukhanov-Piatakov; b) definitely shoot two or three dozen wreckers from these apparaty, including several dozen...

Arthur Horner (1894-1968) was a miners' leader from the 1926 general strike to his retirement as general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1959. During his life, he played a crucial role in the fight for a national mineworkers union, and...

" ...extraordinary memoir ...this small, brilliant book restores a dimension of humanity to the impassioned abstraction that the Middle East has become." -- Washington PostBook InformationISBN 9780853452485Author Fawaz TurkiFormat PaperbackPage...

Eqbal Ahmad (1930?-1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam, the conflict in Kashmir, the involvement of the United States in Vietnam, and the geopolitics of the Cold...

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the Albanian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250160140Author Catherine MerridaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717807697Author Tony PecinovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

"Fanon was consummately incapable of telling the story of himself. He lived in the immediacy of the moment, with an intensity that embodied everything he evoked. Fanon's discourse pertained to a present tense that was unburdened by its narrative past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615895093Author Michael H HolzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Chelmsford PressPublisher Chelmsford PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The biography of a politician who played a profound role in the history of the African National Congress, this account follows Kader Asmal from his beginnings as the son of a small-town shopkeeper in Natal through his exile in the UK and his rise to...

A vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated authorEmma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the...

The first full-length biography of William Dudley Pelley, an important figure in the development of right-wing extremism in the United States called by detractors the ""Star-Spangled Fascist."" William Dudley Pelley was one of the most important figures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982153281Author Bill BrowderFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924177Author Anthony DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375505003Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 873gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

John "Iwan" Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history's most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collaborator? The answer lies in the annals of the Cold War, when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930852887Author Webster Griffin TarpleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 474g

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781783Author Anthony SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

This insider's view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president's staff has become a political classic since its original publication in 1972. In this reissue,...

On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720731Author Ana CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 143gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

An exploration into the impact of the Stalinist purges on the lives, families and contacts of members of the British Communist Party.Book InformationISBN 9780850364675Author Alison MacleodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint The Merlin Press...