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The Book of Secrets : A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
Xue, XinranBloomsbury Publishing 2024The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to to...
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Digital Empires : The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Bradford, AnuOxford University Press 2023Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three dominant digital powers?the United States, China, and the European Union?is intensifying. All thre...
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The Global Coup d'Etat
Nordangård, JacobPharos Media ProductionsMost people probably associate the phrase ‘coup d’etat’ with a sudden, violent takeover, with tanks around government buildings, takeover of media channels, purges of dissidents, a...
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First and Last Things
Wells, H. G.Saga Egmont‘The world of fact is not what it appears to be’. Acclaimed author H.G. Wells ponders some of life’s biggest questions in this transgressive and unique work. Taking us on a journe...
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The Hambantota Connection : Constructing Landscapes, Contesting Modernity
Hamilton, Kerstin; Lindberg, Jonas; Palmås, KarlGlänta produktionAs China re-emerges as a superpower and Western hegemony wanes, the Indian Ocean has become a geopolitical nexus. In the centre of this new map lies Hambantota, a fishing village o...
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The Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell, GeorgeOppianGeorge Orwell journeyed deep into the heart of working-class Northern England to report on the living and working conditions of the region's coal miners. The result was "The Road t...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell, GeorgeOppianGeorge Orwell lived among the poor and destitute in two of Europe's great cities: Paris and London. The result was ""Down and Out in Paris and London," a vivid and unforgettable ac...
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Homage to Catalonia
Orwell, GeorgeOppianIn the midst of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell joined the fight against fascism as a volunteer in the International Brigades. His experiences on the front lines, and the poli...
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It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
Sanders, Bernie; Nichols, JohnCrown 2023NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blue...
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Cobalt Red : How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, SiddharthSt. Martin's Publishing Group 2023The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. An unflinching investigation reveals the...
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Herbert Armstrong - Poisoner
Wallace, EdgarSaga EgmontMajor Herbert Rowse Armstrong has the dubious honour of being the only UK solicitor to be executed for murder. ‘Herbert Armstrong – Poisoner’ details the courtroom proceedings fol...
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John Brown
Douglass, FrederickSaga EgmontWritten to honour the life of the eponymous abolitionist and activist, ‘John Brown’ is the transcript of a speech delivered by Douglass in 1860. While some saw Brown as a radical...
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Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
Stevenson, Robert LouisSaga Egmont‘Across the Plains’ is a vibrant collection of travel and exploration pieces from Stevenson’s life. ‘Across the Plains’ itself recounts Stevenson’s journey from Glasgow to New York...
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A Footnote to History - Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Stevenson, Robert LouisSaga Egmont‘A Footnote to History’ is an account of Colonial abuse in Samoa, the scramble by the US, Germany and Britain so swallow up land with little regard for the native Samoans. Stevenso...
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Abolition Fanaticism in New York
Douglass, FrederickSaga Egmont‘Abolition Fanaticism in New York’ is a speech written by Douglass and delivered in 1847. Proving that the pen can be mightier than the sword, Douglass deftly used his linguistic a...
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Sophus Boas - A Danish Priest in the Third Reich
Boas, SophusSaga Egmont"It was my good fortune, that the prisons in Germany were still controlled by the Ministry of Justice and not by Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo! It was also a stroke of luck that the s...
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The Secret of the Moat Farm
Wallace, EdgarSaga EgmontKnown across the UK as ‘The Moat Farm Murder,’ ‘The Secret of Moat Farm’ sees Wallace as his investigative-journalist best. At the age of 28, the author was sent to cover the devel...
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The Prince
Machiavel, NicolasSaga Egmont‘The Prince’ (1513) is by the Italian philosopher, politician, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli, and is regarded as his most important and influential work. Intended as a guide for...
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Rockefeller - Controlling the Game
Nordangård, JacobPharos Media ProductionsThis is a thrilling and paradoxical story of how the family that made the world dependent on oil, has funded environmental and climate research since the 1950s, helped shape climat...
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What's Wrong with the World
Chesterton, G. K.Saga EgmontIn this collection of essays, G. K. Chesterton matches his wits against some of the greatest issues of the 20th century. Imperialism, politics, education, and feminism are put to...