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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531359Author R.J. BunceFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

God called Sandy as a completely unremarkable little girl from a small town of 6000 in Southern Illinois. Her father didn't graduate from the 8th grade and left home at fifteen to go work in the CCC Camps to send money home to his struggling family...

If You Turn to Look Back combines memoir with political, social, and economic investigations of what it means to be an American and a citizen of the world. American influence is ubiquitous in South America, and If You Turn to Look Back explores these...

This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd's experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937584894Author Louis Michael ManzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine DayWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835908Author Cathy McGowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 450g

This biography tells the extraordinary story of Mary Turner (1938- 2017), the Brent dinner lady and trade union activist who rose to become president of the GMB union and chair of the Labour Party. Proud, fiery and determined when it came to standing...

Charles Stewart Parnell has proved a compelling figure in his own time and to ours. A Protestant landlord who possessed few of the gifts that inspire mass adoration, he was the unlikely object of popular veneration. His long liaison with a married woman,...

This collection of essays commemorates the Parnells of Avondale and simultaneously uses the theme of commemoration to provide an insight into the shifting relationship between history and memory in the case of Charles Stewart Parnell and his family. The...

Written early in TateAIs career, this study of the ConfederacyAIs fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.Book InformationISBN 9781879941243Author Allen TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint J S...

Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in...

John Jenkins, Maine's first Black state senator and mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn, led a remarkable life and his influence extended far beyond his politics and his constituents. He was a four-time world champion in karate and through his business PEP...

Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722504267Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588140739Author Ardeshir ZahediFormat HardbackPage Count 514Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 934g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011056Author Jewher IlhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

As a young, black, MIT-educated social scientist, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo landed her dream job at the EPA, working with Al Gore's special commission to assist postapartheid South Africa. But when she tried to get the government to investigate allegations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915864126Author Patrick ParrFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 598gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

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...

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