Elijah Lovejoy's Fight for Freedom, Paperback - Jennifer Phillips

Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs r...

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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 odds.

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Through personal experience and years of meticulous research Peter Brown offers a careful analysis of the battle and the tactics involved, vigorous...

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Part memoir, part call to action, this young readers' edition dives into the inspiring life of the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings--from c...

Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world--and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half...

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A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero--an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery. The history of the ...

The great singer, Paul Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, USA on 9 April 1898. His father, William was a Presbyterian minister and a former...

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Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful o...

The Story Jenika's life changed in an instant. One day she lived in the countryside with her mother and ten siblings, and the next she moved with h...

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DescriptionThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and milita...

Reducere. An unflinchingly honest memoir, The Dancer from Khiva is a true story that offers remarkable insights into Central Asian culture through the harrow...

DescriptionDiana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish re...

After the DREAM Act failed, many young undocumented activists understood that pinning their hopes on a piece of legislation had been a bad idea. Th...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Dena TakruriNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 148 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedes...

This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one Iranian woman overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a majo...

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Reducere. The Gifford sisters, Grace (later Plunkett), Muriel (later MacDonagh), Nellie (later Donnelly), and Sydney (later Czira) were key figures in the Re...

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A unique eyewitness contribution to history on the Falklands conflict and backgroundPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Harold BrileyIllustr...

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Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

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One of Britain's leading human rights lawyers examines the laws essential to our freedom and confronts the escalation of government power

Publisher: International Publishers Co Inc., U.S.Author(s): Cheddi JaganNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 33Cover t...

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Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or at...

In this thorough social and political history Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of the history of the Dominican Republic and its relations...

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DescriptionIn 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for e...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

'A tour de force.' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Clear-eyed and hard-headed. His defence of liberalism is political writing at its most urgent and engagin...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): J PhillipsNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 217 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

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