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  • Keir Hardie

    by Bob Holman ...
    Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. At the turn of the 19th century he was Labour's most famous face. But despite being voted Labour's 'Greatest Hero' at the 2008 Party Conference, in recent years his extraordinary story seems all but forgotten.Born illegitimate just outside Glasgow in 1856, his life didn't start gently. Before the age of 10, he was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Poetry of Everyday Life

    Storytelling and the Art of Awareness

    by Steve Zeitlin ...
    This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing your capacity for fulfillment and expression, The Poetry of Everyday Life taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love, the metaphors used by scientists, even our sex lives. A folklorist, writer, and cultural activist, Steve Zeitlin explores how poems ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Woodbine Willie

    The Unsung Hero of World War One

    by Bob Holman ...
    Woodbine Willie was the affectionate nickname of the Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, an Anglican priest who volunteered as a chaplain on the Western Front during the First World War. Renowned for offering both spiritual support and cigarettes to injured and dying soldiers, he won the Military Cross for his reckless courage, running into No Man's Land to help the wounded in the middle of an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Champions for Children

    The Lives of Modern Child Care Pioneers

    by Bob Holman ...
    Numerous books have been written about Victorian child care pioneers, but few biographical studies have been published about more recent child care and welfare giants. In the revised edition of this classic book, Bob Holman, a champion for children in his own right, looks at the lives of six inspirational individuals who have made significant contributions to the well-being of disadvantaged ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

    by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander, Marjorie Perloff, Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein, Maria Damon, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jerome Rothenberg, Joshua Schuster, Eric Murphy Selinger, Alicia Ostriker, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Amy Feinstein, Thomas Fink, Kathryn Hellerstein, Adeena Karasick, Meg Schoerke, Norman Fischer, Bob Holman, Merle Lyn Bachman ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition- ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Archbishop Justin Welby: The Road to Canterbury

    by Andrew Atherstone ...
    Rowan Williams retired as Archbishop of Canterbury on 31 December 2012, and the Crown Nominations Commission elected the Rt Revd Justin Welby as his successor, enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in March 2013.The Archbishop of Canterbury has an international profile and influence. In this short, lively and informative book, Andrew Atherstone, explores Welby’s life from his formative years, ... Read more

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  • The Margaret Thatcher Book of Quotations

    Edited by Iain Dale ...
    Margaret Thatcher enthrals whenever she speaks. Her political career has spanned five decades and her influence on world politics is undeniable. From followers she inspires devotion; from detractors she induces unprecedented venom - but they listen all the same. Margaret Thatcher is the most quoted British political leader since Winston Churchill and in this unique collection Iain Dale and Grant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oliver Cromwell

    by John Morrill ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Irish History

    An Entertaining and Thought-Provoking Counter-History of Twentieth-Century Ireland

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    What If? is an entertaining, thoughtful, provocative and original look at some of the milestones of twentieth century Irish history that offers a glimpse of what might have been. We all know that there was nothing inevitable about much of modern Ireland's history. Things could have turned out very differently, so it is natural to wonder what would have happened if certain events had never occurred ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British Prime Ministers

    by Robert J. Parker ...
    There is a distinct lack of readily available information about the British prime ministers, especially as a group. There are thick biographies of the big names Pitt, Gladstone, Churchill - but who were the others? There are plenty of short booklets and pamphlets for all the monarchs but little or nothing on most of the fifty-three PMs. What better way to introduce these individuals than through a ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials Of Bridget Cleary

    by Joan Hoff, Marian Yates ...
    On March 15, 1895, twenty-eight year old Bridget Cleary, a cooper's wife, disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Immediately, strange and lurid rumors began circulating the neighborhood about what had happened. Some said she ran off with an egg seller; others supposed it was an aristocratic foxhunter who had taken young Bridget away. Swirling amid rumors was the barely whispered, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD