
The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Euan Cameron and Jean-Michel Guenassia
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Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur...

Historical Dictionary of Estonia
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Estonia is a small European Union country (population 1.3 million but physically the size of...

Sovereign of Stars: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
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Hatshepsut has fulfilled her divine destiny and taken the Pharaoh's throne. But she knows her...
Sport and English National Identity in a 'Disunited Kingdom'
Tom Gibbons and Dominic Malcolm
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Given sport's centrality in English society, what role does it play in symbolising contemporary...

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
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In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and...
Social issues Gender studies politics

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...
history politics

The Life of Elizabeth I
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England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in English history. But beneath the...

Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader
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Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city and the goal of...

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017 'A deeply original and...
Politics history philosophy

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
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Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson,...
Essays Politics social issues