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"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803694467Author Imrah BainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb...

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642595680Author Angela Y DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538164921Author Scott MacMillanFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061962158Author Alison ArngrimFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639733538Author Amanda JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764393Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 141mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726156Author David S. ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

`When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, `we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist,...

Longlisted for Autobiography of the Year, Sports Book Awards 2022 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from one of the most...

The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984855022Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556522307Author JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella Books

Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel...

'Coretta is more relevant today than ever . . . a female who takes responsibility for creating something better in the time she has and the space she has to occupy: that is true greatness. And Coretta did that.' Maya AngelouBorn in 1927 in the Deep...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101974513Author Tao LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

In a story of deceit, betrayal, and injustice, two parents are tried as terrorists for attempting to rescue their son from a Syrian war zone.On September 2, 2014, Jack Letts, an idealistic eighteen-year-old British Canadian, phoned his mother saying,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493311534Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567326Author Ruth Montiel AriasFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732709652Author Peter YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Warcry CommunicationsPublisher Warcry CommunicationsWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm)...

AS SEEN ON BBC ONE'S THE ONE SHOWBrought together by a shared love of birding, Ollie Olanipekun and Nadeem Perera set up Flock Together to challenge the underrepresentation of people of colour in nature. What started as a walk in their local park...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682060209Author Jon PahlFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome Press

'A scrupulous biography' Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' Kirkus 'If you want to know the real Baldwin, this is the book to read' Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk James Baldwin is an icon of liberation who created...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062676795Author Larry BrilliantFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Harper CollinsPublisher Harper CollinsWeight(grams) 1134g

In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an...

Franklin Henry Little (1878-1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century's most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching...

Founded in the 1970s and today active in more than 40 countries, the Animal Liberation Front has in recent years been considered a domestic terrorist group by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center-despite the ALF's official stance of nonviolence. A...

This is a professional evaluation of Michael Collins which brings to light his multi-faceted and complex character. The contributors examine Collins as Minister for Finance, his role in intelligence, his policy towards the north, his career as...

9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its numental impact--and a deluge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916981164Author Roger BunyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint PublishNationPublisher PublishNationWeight(grams) 272g

"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093885Author Anand TeltumbdeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. As he stumbled through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991842Author Sally Roberts JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792045Author Joss SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 1098gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 42mm

Discover the stories of 20 conservationists who are looking after our planet and its animals.Discover fascinating facts about 20 conservationists from around the world and the endangered animals and ecosystems they work so hard to protect. Bright and...