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A writer, a university professor, a woman: this is the insightful and humorous description of one hesitant revolutionary's experiences through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in January/February 2011. Juggling humor and horror, hope and fear, certitude and anxiety, Prince immerses us in each day's unexpected and inconclusive details, as she meets other writers and intellectuals involved in...
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It is 1969 and Jody A. Forrester is in her late teens, transitioning from a Sixties love child to pacifist anti-Vietnam War activist to an ardent revolutionary. Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary revolves around her three years in the Revolutionary Union, a Communist organization advocating armed overthrow of the ruling class. In readiness for the uprising, she sleeps with two rifles underneath her bed.
One of millions protesting...
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"A terrific biography….The dramatic story of how the American army that beat the British was forged has never been better told than in this remarkable book."
-Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of Team of Rivals
The true story of the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge is the first biography in half a century of the immigrant Prussian soldier who molded George Washington's...
5) My Own Story: With an Excerpt From Women as World Builders, Studies in Modern Feminism By Floyd Dell
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"My Own Story" is the 1914 memoirs of Emmeline Pankhurst. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858—1928) was a British political activist who organized the British suffragette movement and helped women attain voting rights. "Time" magazine named Pankhurst one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century in 1999. This volume offers a fascinating insight into the life and mind of one of the architects of the British suffragette movement and is not to be missed...
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Gramsci in Love is a fictional account of the love life of the famous Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), focusing on his curious relationships with the three Schucht sisters, Evgenia, Tatiana and his wife Julia. It is set against the background of the Soviet Revolution and the Fascist takeover in Italy.
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, is a very popular and influential book. It covers the period from his birth (1869) to the year 1921, describing his childhood, his school days, his early marriage, his journeys abroad, his legal studies and practice.
The book is more about the experiments of Gandhi with truth and his Satyagraha movement, which literally means demanding the truth and nothing else. This is...
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"Forty-eight occasional pieces ranging from the music of forest rebels to Arabic novels by way of Kenyan trains and the automatic pistols in my mother's attic." Jonathan Falla's life and work has taken him from origins in the Caribbean to disaster relief agencies and children's rights, by way of university scholarships and nursing. His writing career includes award-winning stage and film drama, widely acclaimed novels and short stories, and these...
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In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled city of Shiraz and his coming of age during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Back in London, he reflected on what had happened to him and his family after their uprooting and decided to conduct his own investigation...
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Lauren Arrington is senior lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. She is the author of W. B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State.
Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary nationalist....
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This is the true account of Lady Catherine Nabokov's life, living through the turbulent times before and during the Russian Revolution and her escape to immigrate to Canada, settling in Edmonton, Alberta. This is the story of her husbands, her loves, the tragedies, the transgressions, the breaches of trust, her suffering and her survival instincts along the way, through the years. Her indomitable spirit and her faith kept her alive and she succeeded...
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The national bestselling memoir of a woman’s resistance and struggles in Communist China—“an absorbing story of resourcefulness and courage” (The New York Times).
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In August 1966, a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated...
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In August 1966, a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated...
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The fact that the upstart colonists were able to prevails against the military might of Great Britain in the American war for independence is still a matter of wonderment. Under-funded, ill-equipped, inadequately trained, and hampered by loose enlistments, the Continental Army nevertheless prevailed. Their victory was made possible by the heroic efforts of the patriots, many of whom have been rightfully memorialized. But there were others, some whose...
14) Mozart's youth
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Mozart's Youth, by Franz Hoffmann. Translated by George P. Upton. Originally published in 1904.
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Extrait : "C'est une vérité que l'homme garde toujours au fond de la poitrine un peu de l'air natal dont son enfance et sa jeunesse ont été nourries. Le sol, en plus d'un cas, explique le tempérament et la vie de l'être qu'il a produit. Pourquoi ne pas demander au village, au coin de rue, à la demeure paternelle, s'ils n'ont point gardé quelque secret souvenir du personnage célèbre dont ils ont entendu les premiers cris, surpris ou abrité...
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Extrait : "La lune de miel du prince de Conty s'écoula sans nuages. Il n'était point follement amoureux de sa femme, son mariage ayant été, comme toutes les unions princières, bien plus de convenance que d'inclination. Au mois de juin 1733, sollicité d'accompagner le Roi à Compiègne, Louis-François, sans effort, se séparait de sa jeune épouse qu'il laissait aux soins de la duchesse d'Orléans, à Bagnolet."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Robespierre et la Révolution française en moins d'une heure!
Si certains voient en lui le monstre sanguinaire de la Terreur, d'autres préfèrent le considérer comme l'artisan de la Révolution et le défenseur des libertés du peuple sans qui la France ne serait probablement pas ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui. Le clivage est important, mais il met bien en lumière toute la complexité de ce personnage...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Maximilien Robespierre, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Saber más sobre Maximilien Robespierre, un hombre sobrio cuyo único objetivo es acabar con los privilegios de las clases más adineradas, que perderá la cabeza literalmente por su obstinación en su lucha
• Descubrir más sobre la Francia...
19) Trotsky on Lenin
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Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin's fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky. Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century's greatest revolutionaries.
Written shortly after its subject's death, On Lenin covers the period of revolutionary...
20) Dictadores Tiranos: Descubre Tiranos Descubre a los Dictadores más Crueles que Han Influido en la
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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué acontecimientos llevan a una persona a convertirse en un despiadado dictador? ¿Qué motiva a alguien a buscar un control absoluto sobre la población? Entonces sigue leyendo… "La diferencia entre una democracia y una dictadura consiste en que en la democracia puedes votar antes de obedecer las órdenes."- Charles Bukowski La historia está plagada de episodios para recordar, pero también para olvidar, uno de...
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