Revolution of the Ordinary

The story of the decline of the Cuban Revolution over the last four decades, told through the lives of five ordinary Cuban citizens.Publisher: Head...

Reducere. An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. Wha...

Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of t...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

Reducere. Launched in New York City, in 1992, the Lesbian Avengers rejected the picket line and ordinary demo for media-savvy, nonviolent direct action. They...

Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brother...

Reducere. In a world of limitless media noise, how can businesses break through to customers? Context.We are in the midst of a massive media revolution. For ...

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and mu...

"Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity...

Reducere. "J. Michael Zenn has written a wonderful book on health....We need to wholeheartedly embrace the principles of The Self-Health Revolution. I enthus...

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy--a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin,...

Reducere. Make small changes to your surroundings and create extraordinary happiness in your life with groundbreaking research from designer and TED star Ing...

Reducere. In 1936, the people of Spain rose up, overthrew their masters and took power into their own hands. In the villages and small towns of Aragon, they ...

Hildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. This title presents an account of how townspeople went about their lives and reacte...

Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurre...

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy Shale gas extraction--commonly known as fracking--is oft...

Reducere. The year is 1976, and South Africa is gripped by a terrible lockdown - apartheid. Nelson Mandela is in prison on Robben Island; South Africa is iso...

In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution, " James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens w...

A provocative and original book about the world today: the problems it faces, how it works and how ordinary citizens can retake control of its future

Reducere. One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated th...

As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the ...

Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinping era. Usin...

Powerful real-life stories of 'patient leaders' - ordinary people affected by life-changing illnesses, disabilities, or conditions, who are revolut...

A myth-busting popular history of the German Revolution focusing on the roles of women, workers and ordinary people

Reducere. Risking all for freedom - and love The governor has disbanded the Colonial Assembly, removing the last shred of representative government from Amer...

Reducere. Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These event...

Reducere. Quick in the saddle and fast out of town. Watch one of America s most remarkable heroes come alive through fast-paced prose and gripping storytelli...

Warning: This book may not be for you This book is dangerous It is only for those who are ready to join an uprising?a revolution of the soul that w...

Reducere. A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream--or a nightmare--that awakens metaphysical questions on human l...

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next? The political ambitions of the mo...

This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United State...

The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami) is more commonly known as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Gu...

Reducere. On 10th August 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolutio...

Reducere. Revolution 1989 is the first in-depth, authoritative account of a few months that changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations wer...

Reducere. In this final book of the 299 Days series, The 43 Colonels celebrates the many "ordinary" men and women who did extraordinary things during and aft...

Reducere. A timely survey of radical spirituality and political activism in Islam and the West over the last century and a half, The Crescent And The Compass...

Reducere. An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories writte...

Reducere. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

DescriptionIn 2009, an anonymous programmer releases a new method of paying and being paid to the world. No one runs it; no one controls it; no aut...

DescriptionNever before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, whe...

DescriptionIf we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? T...

"The most important ...] Russian novel of the 20th century."-The New York Times Book ReviewConsidered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg, is a p...

Win or lose, Bernie has reshaped the landscape of American politics. Where does the political revolution go next? The political ambitions of the mo...

Reducere. Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolutio...

Reducere. Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of th...

At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a rob...

Reducere. DescriptionThis remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents toemerge from the tumult of America's Revolutionary War. Theordinary and ...

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people ...

DescriptionWinner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls "a powerful investigation into the ...

DescriptionCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolut...

DescriptionOn a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French...

Reducere. In the 20th century, historians began arguing for new ways of doing history. This "new history" movement called for a total history open to explori...

DescriptionThis book focuses on a stream in New Hampshire and how it and other bodies of water have been affected by changes in technology, economi...

DescriptionTen Lessons in Modern Chinese History tells the story of modern China from the Opium Wars in the mid-nineteenth century to the Xi Jinpin...

Reducere. DescriptionLife Lessons is a dramatic and inspiring story of Captain Tony Tarracino's remarkable journey from the ghettos of Elizabeth, N.J. to bec...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shanna SwendsonRisking all for freedom - and loveThe governor has disbanded the Colonial Assembly, removing the last shred ...

Reducere. REVOLUTION is a thrilling novel of intrigue, deception, betrayal, courage and the remarkable resilience of the human spirit under unbelievable circ...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

With a new foreword After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Fr...

T. H. Breen introduces us to the ordinary men and women who took responsibility for the course of the American revolution. Far from the actions of ...

Men dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the world...

Description"A vivid, unforgettable picture of the quality--or lack of it--of life in England among 'ordinary' people."--Peter Stansky.About the Aut...

Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...

Reducere. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government ...

DescriptionGraham Greene saw the Castros rise; Sarah Rainsford watched them leave. From the street where Wormold, the hapless hero of Greene's Our ...

Reducere. Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In F...

DescriptionSince its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Sexual Revolution - and the breakdown of the Family - has brought misery to millions. In The Sexual State Jennifer Roback Morse show...

DescriptionA panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.In Global Gay, Fr d ric Martel visits more than fifty ...