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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400248Author J.H. GraingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771134453Author Libby DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772015416Author Art MikiFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682752494Author Richard D. LammFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 158g

When Shriley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her?Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in the land. Her...

During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson's Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600781957Author Michael TackettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 484g

The definitive, authorized biography of the one of the most important, provocative, and visionary political figures of our time. In one way or another Newt Gingrich has been leading a revolution for most of his life. Citizen Newt is the definitive...

1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became. All of it, in all its color, glory, and ugliness, came symbolically together on a hot, humid weekend in...

Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583673294Author Clairmont ChungFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

This is the biography of a nineteenth-century gentleman whose career in the diplomatic service of his country contributed greatly to the worldwide expansion of American trade and commerce. John Randolph Clay (1808-1885), son of a Philadelphia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485313847Author Anton JoubertFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476747385Author Sam RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451675467Author Manuel Roig-FranziaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451661071Author Gabrielle GiffordsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

When people look to the founding of the modern conservative movement, they must ultimately look to Russell Kirk (1918-1994). Author of the groundbreaking treatise The Conservative Mind, Kirk defined conservative political thought for the post-World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438463179Author Duane TananbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 980Imprint 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 9781438426648Author Vera BlinkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Mandala J. Radebe has written the first, full account of the South African revolutionary, Jabulani Nobleman 'Mzala' Nxumalo. Intimate and analytical, this powerful and searching biography of one of the liberation movement's chief critical thinkers,...

While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship on South Africa's freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer's political life offers a different perspective. Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered black women...

Dr Abdullah Abdurahman (1872-1940) was the first person of colour ever to be elected to political office in South Africa. He represented some of the poorest people in Cape Town on the City Council and then the Provincial Council. First winning a seat in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431423309Author Adekeye AdebajoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidante of the President, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy. She was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887062704Author Michael J. O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The more than 275 biographies of Saskatchewan politicians from the past 100 years that are included in this volume represent but a fraction of those who have been elected to public office in the province. These are only the longer-serving, the most...

From the optimism associated with provincial status in 1905, through the trials of Depression and war, the boom times of the post-war period, and the economic vagaries of the 1980s and 1990s, the twentieth century was a time of growth and hardship,...

"The Holy Crow"...How do you change one of Canada's most politically sensitive policies? Retiring the Crow Rate is an exacting study in the process of changing an entrenched public policy that many in the West saw as their birthright. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248271Author Alfred Barratt BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248141Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Much loved in his own era, William Morris has inspired Prime Ministers (Clement Attlee), artists and eco-socialists (John Bellamy Foster). Ferociously opposed to capitalism and inequality, he sought to embrace humanity with passion, commitment, energy...

In the last weeks of the 1960 presidential race, Louis Martin pulled off a minor miracle. With two days to go before the election, this passionate civil rights advocate and Democratic activists put two million pamphlets into the hands of black voters...

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to the United States from the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1915...

Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F...

From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused with Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, and Walter Sisulu was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and...

This well-crafted and engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and his wife, Eliza Clark Garrett, tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man's struggle to succeed and the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy...

Hugh Segal is a very well-known and well-liked former politician who has served in myriad roles in provincial, federal, and international politics, with formal positions as chief of staff to a Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and principal secretary to the...

"Going my way?" asked John Turner's campaign brochure in 1962, "my way is the Liberal way." It was, that is, until Pierre Trudeau came to power. Turner was his party's star apprentice in the Liberal art of managing a heterogeneous nation through...

On November 3, 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan drove into an anti-Klan rally in a black housing project in Greensboro, North Carolina and opened fire. They killed five demonstrators and wounded ten. All those killed were anti-racist community and labor...

Gwen Terasaki's Bridge to the Sun, an idealized memoir of her marriage in the 1930s and 1940s to a Japanese diplomat, Terasaki Hidenari, is still widely read as an inspiring tale of a "bridge" between two cultures that waged savage war against...