Social Activists

"Magisterial and glorious" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), the first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day-American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and advocate for the homeless-is "a vivid account of her political and religious development"...

HONORABLE MENTION, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Autobiography & Memoir!Lifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of The Yippies, a 1960s anti-war satirical protest group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvement with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014790Author Laura L. LovettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583335246Author Jenny BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544694085Author Jane S PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O'Mara. Roisin Ni Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War...

"Magisterial and glorious" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), the first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day-American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and advocate for the homeless-is "a vivid account of her political and religious development"...

"Magisterial and glorious" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), the first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day-American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and advocate for the homeless-is "a vivid account of her political and religious development"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999609989Author Isis AquarianFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Sacred BonesPublisher Sacred Bones

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353083Author Antoine GimenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501178450Author Bana AlabedFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998922Author Pat ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692984017Author Nekiesha LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Nekiesha LynnPublisher Nekiesha LynnWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI. She spoke out against Hitler the month he took power in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523089864Author John PerkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

This book tells the story of the ANC Youth League from its origins in the 1940s to the controversies of the Malema era. It analyses the ideology and tactics of its founders, some of whom (notably Mandela and Tambo) later became iconic figures in South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882860008Author Noel IgnatievFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Charles KerrPublisher Charles KerrWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310356851Author Rebecca BenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 138mm * 24mm

In 2014, renowned professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in response to his tweets criticizing the Israeli government's assault on Gaza. Salaita's firing generated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354080Author Agustin ComottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692539255Author Joanna MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Marrowstone PressPublisher Marrowstone PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692539255Author Joanna MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Marrowstone PressPublisher Marrowstone PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (New Voice Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781611534146Author Robert Seamus MacPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617754500Author Ron KovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 215g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991594115Author Libbe HalevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Heartistry CommunicationsPublisher Heartistry CommunicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541762312Author Peter DuffyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 25mm

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherrie L. Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering,...

A rare and poignant testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide. The twentieth century was an era of genocide, which started with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, women, and children-a modern process of total,...

A vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451642261Author Eileen McNamaraFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781791684280Author Zebiba ShekhiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513808338Author Marshall V KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Herald Press (VA)Publisher Herald Press (VA)Weight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This book shows that addressing crowded halls from Ayr to Aberdeen, Frederick Douglass gained the confidence, mastered the skills and fashioned the distinctive voice that transformed him as a campaigner.Book InformationISBN 9781474444262Author Alasdair...

Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippie movement and a member of the Chicago Seven, traces his personal odyssey from radical activist of the 60's to a practitioner in the growth potential movements of the 70's-'Working to change in me the things I opposed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for ForeWord Book of the Year Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781583949320Author Sister Abega NtlekoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint North Atlantic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500256753Author Zita Cabello-BarruetoFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997068375Author Frank MeeinkFormat PaperbackImprint Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts Inc.Publisher Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts Inc.

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196169Author Martin Luther KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen. Charting his development from remote rural roots to city lawyer, freedom fighter, and then political leader, Peter Hain...