The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
4.90 USD
13.99 (64% off)
Category: History & Politics
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more
Dreams from My Father - A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
11.54 USD
15.39 (25% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Canons Ser.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race" (The Washington Post Book World). "Quite extraordinary."--Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and com ...Show more
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5.51 USD
12.59 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Classics Ser.
In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man�s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur (Editor)
9.19 USD
20.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, from Gandhi to Mandela, the most significant speeches of the modern era Whether the rousing words of Winston Churchill, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Salman Rushdie's denouncement of his fatwa, or the optimism of Barack Obama, speeches shape the w ...Show more
How Democracies Die - What History Reveals about Our Future by Steve Levitsky; Daniel Ziblatt
4.90 USD
13.99 (64% off)
Category: History & Politics | Reading Level: very good
How does a democracy die? What lessons does history teach us? What can we do to save our own? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Z ...Show more
Populism : A Very Short Introduction by Cristobal Rovira Cas; Kaltwasser Mudde
4.20 USD
11.95 (64% off)
Category: History & Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who arethe populist ...Show more
Pandemic Century - A History of Contagion From The Spanish Flu To Covid 19 by Mark Honigsbaum
6.38 USD
18.19 (64% off)
Category: History & Politics
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disea ...Show more
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know by Various
9.19 USD
26.99 (65% off)
Category: History & Politics
To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from twenty-four of its writers, a more accurate picture comes ...Show more
I You We Them - Revealing the 'desk Killers', Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity by Dan Gretton
9.19 USD
20.99 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics
A landmark historical investigation into crimes against humanity and the nature of evil that is over two decades in the making.A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTIONA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and reve ...Show more
When There Was No Aid - War and Peace in Somaliland by Sarah G. Phillips
24.51 USD
36.95 (33% off)
Category: History & Politics
Through its sensitivity to the ease with which peace gives way to war, Phillips argues, this discourse has indirectly harnessed an apparent propensity to war as a source of order.
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History: The Changing Role of International Organisations: the League and the UN 1919-2011 Student Book by Blair, Georgina
12.69 USD
23.92 (46% off)
Category: History & Politics
Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History prepares students for the new specification. These books provide comprehensive coverage of the latest Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) specification and are designed to supply students with the best preparation possible for the examination: written by a team of h ...Show more
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
7.96 USD
18.19 (56% off)
Category: History & Politics | Reading Level: near fine
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking i ...Show more