We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom (Eller Anne)(Paperback)

We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom (Eller Anne)(Paperback)

In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Bronte Anne)(Paperback)

A powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom, from the youngest of the Bront sisters Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer

Application for Release from the Dream (Hoagland Tony)(Paperback / softback)

Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection, pursues these questions with the fierce abandon of one who needs to know how

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Jones Saeed)(Paperback)

From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives--winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award--is a 'moving, bracingly honest memoir' (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected by The

Life on the Hill: Be-Attitudes for Everyday Life (Spicer Chris)(Paperback)

Martin Luther King's, 'I have a dream,' and Winston Churchill's, 'We will fight them on the beaches,' were time-honoured speeches aimed at challenging peoples' beliefs and behaviour. Yet these great addresses pale into insignificance when compared to the Sermon on the Mount delivered by Jesus two

Defending Freedom: How We Can Win the Fight for an Open Society (Fcks Ralf)(Paperback)

We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigration have culminated in a prevailing mood of hostility towards the established order. Confidence in democratic institutions and mainstream political parties is fast

Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence (Marcus Aliza)(Paperback)

An in depth and scholarly report on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an essential actor on behalf of modern-day Kurds The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West, Kurds are now highly visible actors on the

Honour Restored - The Battle of Britain, Dowding and the Fight for Freedom (Brown Sqn Ldr Peter AFC)(Paperback / softback)

Rescuing the Declaration of Independence: How We Almost Lost the Words That Built America (Redding Anna Crowley)(Paperback)

He saved the words that built America Emmy Award-winning journalist Anna Crowley Redding and Sibert Honor illustrator Edwin Fotheringham bring to life the riveting true story about the lowly clerk who saved the Declaration of Independence from being destroyed by the British army in the War of

Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 (Zamoyski Adam)(Paperback)

From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that

Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground (Hayes Robin J.)(Paperback)

During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of African independence leaders were

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (Klein Naomi)(Paperback)

'We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and Mar a unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors. And this

Churchill and Orwell - The Fight for Freedom (Ricks Thomas E.)(Paperback / softback)

Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a long shadow across our culture and

The Gardens of Consolation (Reza Parisa)(Paperback)

A novel of love, family, and a fight for freedom in Iran featuring a 'formidable and hard-to-forget heroine' (Publishers Weekly). In the early 1920s, in the remote Persian village of Ghamsar, two young people dreaming of a better life fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his bride, Talla, with him

Curse of Bigness - How Corporate Giants Came to Rule the World (Wu Tim (Atlantic Books))(Pevná vazba)

An urgent and persuasive argument for why we must fight global monopolies to protect freedom and

Why We Dream - The Definitive Answer (Griffin Joe)(Paperback / softback)

Why we dream: the definitive answer shows that dreaming is vital for mental health and that the brain state we associate with dreaming (the REM state) also has crucial importance when we are awake. Full of real life stories, dream examples and case histories, it gives readers the key to

We Rule the Night (Bartlett Claire Eliza)(Paperback)

Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight -- for their country and for themselves -- in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity. Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal

We Are the Revolution!: Rudolf Steiner, Joseph Beuys, and the Threefold Social Impulse (Rsch Ulrich)(Paperback)

'Freedom for the spiritual-cultural life, equality and democracy for human rights, initiative and solidarity for the economic sphere ' Revolutions happen when society does not change and evolve. Stagnation and resistance create a situation in which a leap in development is required. In nature,

Why We Dream - The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams (Robb Alice)(Paperback / softback)

The new science behind dreams, why they are good for us and why they

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for Its Survival (Dunt Ian)(Paperback)

'A tour de force' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Urgent and engaging' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'A phenomenal history from a truly big mind' - DAVID SCHNEIDER, WRITER'Required reading for anyone interested in politics and philosophy' - PROSPECTIn this groundbreaking new book, political journalist Ian

Creating Freedom - Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future (Martinez Raoul)(Paperback / softback)

Philosopher, artist and award-winning film-maker Raoul Martinez's radical, revolutionary and highly provocative rethink of

Anne Hope: The Struggle for Freedom - The life of the visionary co-founder of Training for Transformation (Kilroe Stephanie)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on unique access to Anne Hope's diaries and prayer journals, Stephanie Kilroe has written an intimate biography of the inspirational activist and women's movement

Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom (Pivnik Sam)(Paperback / softback)

Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true tale of survival against the most extraordinary

Equal - How we fix the gender pay gap (Gracie Carrie)(Paperback / softback)

Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie