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The Call of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in international affairs and contemporary Canadian politics.Book InformationISBN 9780774890007Author Bill GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint University of British Columbia...

Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460221866Author Peter BraaksmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 468g

What is an intellectual? The term conjures, perhaps, images of armchairs in university studies and shelves packed with dusty tomes; of meticulous research and stringent, challenging argument. The late Jack Simons lived that life - and many more besides...

Indira Gandhi's last years in office as India's prime minister ran from January 1980 to her assassination in October 1984 but until now no book has been devoted to her final term. Among the principal themes discussed in this innovative volume are how...

In the Dark with My Dress on Fire is the remarkable life story of Blanche La Guma, a South African woman who dedicated her life to ending apartheid through her various roles as professional nurse, wife and mother, and underground Communist activist. Born...

This book describes a career politician's pragmatic remedies for broken government, drawn from a half-century of political leadership experience.""Performance is better than promise"" has long been the motto of Ernest F...

I Remember Nelson Mandela is a collection of remembrances from those who worked with, for and beside Mandela. More than one hundred individuals, from household staff to bodyguards and presidential advisors, have offered their memories, which provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240342Author Charles BookerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key...

In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public - but as he later said, ""Nixon couldn't...

Praised by his many admirers as a "courageous and fearless" defender of human rights, Heraclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getulio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles...

David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority...

The idea that a Senator Republican or Democrat would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vandenberg...

Mario Cuomo is in many respects one of the most significant liberal politicians in the postwar era: a three-term governor of one the nation's largest states and an eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy during a period of...

With Foreword by S R Nathan'A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty' - those were the apt words chosen by a reporter in 1966 to describe Tan Siak Kew and his multi-dimensional public life. He was a fervent supporter of...

This book by a pioneer generation civil servant is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore's spectacular development from a sleepy backwater village to a first world State within a single generation and defying, in the process, all odds...

What does it take to become the second-in-command of one of the most powerful countries in the world? Mike Pence's rise to the vice presidency of the United States wasn't always easy. To some, he is the personification of American conservative values,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552669525Author Madelyn HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789518771428Author David HaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint OppianPublisher OppianWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593238677Author Andrew YangFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593320587Author Cori BushFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 159g

Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791441107Author Sarah M. ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book is about one of the most remarkable European politicians of recent decades, Silvio Berlusconi, and about his contribution to the dramatic changes that have overtaken Italian politics since the early 1990s. From the vantage point of 2017, would...

First published in English in 1929, this is a reissue of Otto Ruhle's comprehensive biography of Karl Marx. Written by a leading Marxist and key figure within the German Labour movement, this is an exceptionally detailed and well-researched study which...

Containing footnotes and an extensive bibliography, this edition of Franz Mehring's classic biography is designed to assist the English-speaking reader towards a better understanding of Marx, his work and a history of Marxism. The book is divided into...

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society...

Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2012 Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association, 2012When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672778Author Ronnie KasrilsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Barber B. Conable Jr. served as a Republican congressman from western New York from 1965 to 1985. He is recognized as one of the most respected members of the House of Representatives in recent years. This biography explores his twenty-year congressional...

This important book brings together the previously unpublished letters of three women, Lilian Ngoyi, Bessie Head, and Dora Taylor. While Ngoyi, Head, and the lesser-known Taylor each made vital and perhaps underappreciated contributions to the southern...

Brings to life one of the most significant figures in the crusade for women's rights in America This comprehensive biography of Susan B. Anthony traces the life of a feminist icon, bringing new depth to our understanding of her influence on the course...

A full biography of the founding president of the African National Council (ANC), this account uncovers the inspirations for John L. Dube's many public achievements. Tracing the history of his forbearers in the Zulu kingdom, this volume chronicles the...

In EVERY DAY IS A GIFT, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing-and amazingly true-stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The...

A behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician. I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588382214Author Warren A TrestFormat HardbackImprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth BooksWeight(grams) 957g

Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation, first published in 1931, presents a collection of tributes to and reminiscences about the renowned socialist poet, pioneering gay rights activist, environmentalist and political thinker. Embroiled in controversy with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726159Author Stephen HessFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Cutting across a broad swath of Canadian domestic and diplomatic history, Grit will interest specialist and general readers alike interested in political biography, Canadian history, international affairs, or public policy.Book InformationISBN...