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A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again" Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2017-08-29
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On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Fifty years on, his...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-04-21
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Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Benn Diaries, kept for almost seventy years, are a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of the political life of our times. This single-volume edition is the selected...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2017-03-23
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If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that will simply mean 'Love You More Than Life'. These letters are no harder to remember than 'KGB'. GREY IS THE COLOUR OF HOPE is the...
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Sceptre
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2016-08-11
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IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood friend and future husband Igor Geraschenko. With wit and simplicity Irina describes a biased and turbulent education, being...
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Sceptre
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2016-08-11
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'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving and gives you an insight into this extraordinary moment as the war is about to begin ... it's so vivid, and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-07-07
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W&N Essentials
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THE STORY OF ANDERS BREIVIK ANDTHE INSPIRATION FORTHE NETFLIX FILM 22 JULY, FROMTHE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE BOOKSELLER OF KABULOn 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. One of Us is the...
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Virago
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2015-03-05
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Russell Brand wants YOU to join the revolution.We all know the system isn't working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there's nothing we can do - "it's just the way...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-10-23
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In 2002, an eighty-five-year-old former civil servant was voted ‘Irishman of the Century’. Widely regarded as “the architect of modern Ireland”, T.K. Whitaker’s life spans the history of the Irish state in whose economic, social and cultural evolution he played an...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2014-09-26
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Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-09-25
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SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERDear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also the gripping story of how a member of the inner circle of this enigmatic country became its...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-05-08
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'An appraisal of a compelling character who might, at the age of 69 in January 2017, be sworn in as the most powerful woman in the history of the world.' The Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A revealing window into the le Carré-like layers of intrigue that develop when a...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-02-11
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The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel.Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation from a private...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-12-12
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The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century.The Tory War Minister, John Profumo, had been sleeping with the teenage Christine Keeler, while at the same time she had been sleeping with a Russian spy.The ensuing investigation revealed a secret...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2013-12-06
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The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra GuhaThe life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. In this fascinating new...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-03
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The chances are good that every one of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. We come to this challenge in the most personal way possible—we want to help someone we love, but we don't know how, and we're afraid of losing ourselves in this...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2013-10-01
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Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression.In...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2013-04-25
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A mindless sectarian psychopath or a loyalist folk hero who took the war to the IRA's front door? The name Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair is synonymous with a killing spree by loyalist terrorists that took Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war.From humble beginnings as a...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2013-04-19
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A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-04-18
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Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher,Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in the nation's...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2013-03-28
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